# VarynForge changelog

> Product updates for VarynForge — premium keyword research forged into
> ready-to-publish content plans. Written for a general audience, newest first.

Each entry is tagged with a type (New feature / Improvement / Fix) and the part
of the product it touches. The human-readable page is at https://www.varynforge.com/changelog
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## Entries

### The VarynForge MCP server is now discoverable by agent registries
2026-09-04 · Improvement · MCP server

VarynForge publishes a standard discovery manifest and server card, so AI agents and registries that search for tools by intent can find and connect to it without manual setup. The connection endpoint also answers unsupported request types the way the MCP specification expects. [VAR-208](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-208/mcp-endpoint-answers-get-with-401-instead-of-405allow-serve-ard) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwcoNLWeAkgyec19WtGkpc

### Tools now declare what they touch
2026-08-22 · Improvement · MCP server

Every MCP tool announces whether it only reads your data or also writes it, and which writes are consequential. Hosts like Claude use this to run read-only tools without nagging you for confirmation while always double-checking the destructive ones. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Writer prompts now work with your account's opportunities and briefs
2026-08-19 · Improvement · MCP server

The writer guide your agent loads before drafting — for articles, X threads, LinkedIn posts, and video scripts — now pulls the opportunity behind each brief: its keyword pool, the competing pages to beat, and sibling articles in the cluster. Drafts are graded against the brief's own acceptance criteria, and everywhere the prompt is mentioned now says plainly that the writer works with your Varyn account context. [VAR-161](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-161) Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Dormant and preview radars now say so
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Market radar

Cards from a radar that is no longer sweeping daily appear dimmed with a clear explanation, and an empty deck tells you whether a new sweep is coming or the radar needs relighting. You can still act on every card, and lighting the radar again is one click away. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Focus the radar on a single project
2026-08-17 · New feature · Market radar

A new filter on the radar deck narrows the cards to one project when you want to concentrate. Focusing on a project also reveals its pulse strip: the niche's core terms with rising or falling search interest at a glance.

### One radar for everything you run
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Market radar

The radar now lives in a single deck covering all your projects, so you triage rising topics in one place instead of checking each project separately. Old per-project radar links take you straight there.

### The report ranks opportunities on the same fit-aware score
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Client reports

The client report no longer leads with topics your site can't convert on — down-weighted entries stay visible with the reason spelled out, so you can still judge them yourself. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Opportunities are now scored against what your site actually offers
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Opportunities & content plan

Research now checks each topic against your site profile: topics that need a feature you don't offer, or an occasion you don't sell, are down-weighted with a visible reason instead of topping your list. Topics you can serve are never penalized.

### Reports now say when your site profile was last synced
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Client reports

Every report carries the date your site profile was last confirmed, and when the profile is older than the research behind the report, you get a one-click choice: re-sync it from your live site first, or generate with the profile as it is. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Calendar entries now warn about duplicates and already-covered topics
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Client reports

When two suggested articles are near-duplicates, a suggestion is almost identical to a page already live on your site, or a title is still a raw working title, the calendar says so on the entry — you decide whether to merge, reword, or keep it. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### The 90-day content sequence matches your real publishing pace
2026-08-17 · Improvement · Client reports

Set how many articles you publish per week in project settings and the report's content calendar sizes itself to that rate, instead of spreading everything across twelve weeks.

### A product page no longer counts as covering an article topic
2026-08-17 · Fix · Opportunities & content plan

Coverage matching now checks what kind of page matched: a product page that merely mentions a topic in its description no longer marks that topic as already covered, so real content gaps stop hiding behind storefront pages. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Agents see your organizations
2026-08-16 · Improvement · MCP server

Connected AI agents can now list your organizations, see which organization a project belongs to, create projects in a specific organization, and read the shared plan limits that actually govern their work. Closes [VAR-183](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-183) Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### One switcher for projects and organizations
2026-08-16 · New feature · Account & billing

The sidebar switcher now shows your projects and your organizations in a single menu — organizations wear their plan color, show member counts, and pending invitations appear right in the list with a Join button.

### Organizations: share your projects with your team
2026-08-16 · New feature · Account & billing

Create an organization, invite teammates by email, and work the same projects together. Your plan, research credits, and daily allowances are shared by everyone in the organization, and each member keeps their own login. Every account starts with a personal organization, so nothing changes until you invite someone.

### Check your own article ideas against live search data
2026-08-12 · New feature · Briefs & drafts

Every idea you add now gets target keywords automatically, and the new Check action runs one live Google search per keyword to attach real volume bands and the pages currently ranking. On projects with a completed research run, your idea is also scored and placed on your niche map — the same columns you see on Opportunities. [VAR-180](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-180) Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Dialogs no longer lose your work to a stray click
2026-08-10 · Improvement · Across the app

If you have typed into a dialog or it is busy scoring, checking, or publishing something, clicking outside it no longer closes it and throws the work away — the Close button always remains. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Your project name is now truly yours
2026-08-10 · Fix · Projects & setup

Renaming a project sticks everywhere — the sidebar, the project switcher, the dashboard, settings, and what your agent sees all show the name you typed, and renaming no longer alters your niche definition. [VAR-174](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-174) Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Research status now explains failures
2026-08-10 · Improvement · MCP server

When a research run fails, get_research_status reports which phase it died in, a failure class, and whether retrying is worthwhile — so your agent stops burning credits on blind retries. [VAR-178](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-178) · [VAR-177](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-177) · [VAR-179](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-179) · [VAR-170](https://linear.app/varyn-forge/issue/VAR-170) Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

### Arrange your content plan the way you plan to publish
2026-08-10 · New feature · Briefs & drafts

Ready briefs can be reordered with up/down controls and keep your order across visits. You can also start an article straight from a one-sentence idea on the content plan page, and the import options are grouped in one menu. Manually added articles now get the same intent and angle labels as generated ones.

### Pages with wide content now fit laptop screens
2026-08-10 · Fix · Across the app

The content plan board (and any other wide page) no longer spills past the edge of the screen — wide sections scroll inside the page instead of clipping.

### Cleaner filtering on the Opportunities page
2026-08-08 · Improvement · Opportunities & content plan

Topics your site already covers are hidden by default now, and the filter bar has proper sorting, filter dropdowns, and visible loading feedback.

### Turn a finished research run into a client-ready report
2026-08-08 · New feature · Client reports

The new Report page packages a completed research run as a branded PDF you can forward to a client. It pitches only genuine gaps, shows the proof that the site doesn't already cover each topic, and lists ground already held as positions to defend.

### Free accounts get three projects instead of one
2026-08-08 · Improvement · Account & billing

You can now set up three projects on the free plan, and paid tiers scale above that: Starter 5, Pro 10, Master uncapped. Model several clients before spending a research credit.

### Tell us whose site a project is for
2026-08-08 · Improvement · Projects & setup

Creating a project now asks whether the site is yours, a client's, or a prospect's. One optional tap, and it shapes what we build next.

### Free Client Snapshot on every plan
2026-08-08 · New feature · Client reports

A client-ready starting-point document built from your project setup: positioning, site inventory, competitor set, and early signals. Available on the web and through the MCP server, on every plan including free.

### Build a pitch report in your own branding over MCP
2026-08-08 · New feature · MCP server

One MCP call now returns the full data behind a completed research run plus a render guide, so your agent can format the pitch in your own branding.

### Briefs stop inventing acronym expansions
2026-08-06 · Fix · Briefs & drafts

Article briefs now resolve acronyms against your project's own vocabulary instead of guessing at what they stand for.

### Edit your asset and niche profile
2026-08-06 · New feature · Projects & setup

Target customer, core problem, and related terms are now editable, both in the app and by your agent. A re-crawl flags the inferred profile for review instead of quietly keeping stale claims about your business.

### Dismiss clusters and exclude terms you don't sell
2026-08-06 · New feature · Opportunities & content plan

You can now dismiss opportunity clusters that don't fit your product, and set excluded terms so mismatched keywords are pushed down in scoring before they ever reach you.

### Add publishing destinations from your agent
2026-08-05 · New feature · MCP server

Publishing destinations can now be added over MCP, and each one reports which channel, verification, and publish tools apply to it.

### Waive checks, steer a rewrite, backdate a publish
2026-08-05 · New feature · Briefs & drafts

You can now waive individual verification checks you deliberately deviate from, give corrective guidance when regenerating a brief, and record a publish date in the past for work that already went live.

### Re-read a draft verdict without spending a check
2026-08-05 · Improvement · MCP server

Agents connected over MCP can now pull back any draft verdict for free instead of burning a daily-capped verification to recover it, and can see how much of the verification budget is left before they start.

### Lists refresh right after an action
2026-08-05 · Fix · Across the app

Several lists no longer need a page reload to show a change. Adding an opportunity to the content plan, changing a competitor's importance, and similar actions now update on screen immediately.

### Send feedback from anywhere in the app
2026-08-05 · New feature · Across the app

Look for Share Feedback in the sidebar on every page. Bug reports, ideas, and anything else reach us directly instead of getting lost in a support thread.

### Research progress reflects the real stage
2026-08-04 · Fix · Research runs

The progress percentage on a running job now tracks the actual pipeline stage rather than a wall-clock estimate, so it stops jumping and stalling.

### Live counts while a research run is going
2026-08-04 · Improvement · Research runs

Run status now reports keyword and company counts as they come in, instead of showing zero until the very end.

### Research runs survive sites our crawler can't read
2026-08-03 · Fix · Research runs

When our crawler provider refuses a site, page discovery now falls back to the site's own sitemap. A site that can't be mapped at all no longer kills the whole run.
