Elyra

Elyra · Jun 9, 2026 · 4 min read

Claude Fable 5 lands the same day it launched - Elyra v0.9.6

Anthropic shipped a new model generation, and a few hours later Elyra could already drive it. 0.9.6 wires Claude Fable 5 onto the direct anthropic provider — 1M context, adaptive thinking, vision — plus the small fix that made it actually work, and an honest note on the price.

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Elyra · Jun 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Elyra is a loop

A chatbot answers and stops. An agent loops — observe, reason, act, observe again — until the job is genuinely done. Strip away the features and that quiet cycle is all Elyra really is.

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Elyra · Jun 7, 2026 · 5 min read

The cheap, open giant: running NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra in Elyra

Nemotron 3 Ultra is open, strikingly cheap, and carries a million-token context window — and Elyra can drive it today. What it is, where it shines, where it doesn't, and the hardware story behind it.

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Elyra · Jun 7, 2026 · 4 min read

A bigger brain, a fresher engine, and a quieter release - Elyra v0.9.5

MiniMax M3 lands on the direct minimax and minimax-cn providers — 512k context, 128k output, reasoning, and vision — plus an Anthropic SDK bump and a boring-but-honest release-tooling fix.

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Elyra · Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min read

A Second Pair of Eyes

The model that wrote your code is the worst reviewer of it. Elyra's /review gets you a cold, independent second opinion — no conversation history, optionally a different model entirely, scoped to exactly the changes you care about.

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Elyra · Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min read

The Agent That Writes Its Own Tools

Elyra 0.9.3 ships extension_write — the agent can now author its own extensions, with your sign-off.

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Elyra · Jun 6, 2026 · 4 min read

Git Bisect, But for Your AI's Reasoning - Elyra v0.9.3

Elyra's /bisect borrows git's binary-search debugging and points it at the agent's own turns — finding the exact one that introduced a regression.

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Elyra · Jun 6, 2026 · 6 min read

The Cheapest Optimization Is the One You Don't Make

A terminal text editor was doing the same expensive work three times per keypress. The fix was easy — and a bigger, faster fix was sitting right next to it. This is about why I walked away from the bigger one.

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Elyra · Jun 6, 2026 · 4 min read

One Command, Everything Current - Elyra v0.9.2

Elyra v0.9.2 makes /update bring your whole setup — the agent and every extension — current in a single step. Plus two quieter reliability fixes.

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Elyra · Jun 1, 2026 · 5 min read

Seeing What Changed - Elyra v0.9.1

A real diff viewer, editor handoff, and a way to see exactly what the agent touched.

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