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Tips & Tricks · Jun 13, 2026 · 6 min read

Your AGENTS.md is full of advice for a dumber model

Every rule your agent helped you write passed review by the model that wrote it — so the errors that survive are the ones that model couldn't see. They sit in your instruction files until a stronger reader shows up. Here's the one prompt to run before you give a new model real work.

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Elyra · Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

When a Model Vanishes: Meet Mistral Medium 3.5

A few days ago we shipped same-day support for Claude Fable 5. This morning it returns a 404. That's the whole argument for the boring feature — switching models in one command — and a good excuse to talk about a workhorse worth switching to.

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Tips & Tricks · Jun 12, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Actually Set Up Elyra Projects (the Parts Most Users Never Find)

Most people install Elyra, drop an AGENTS.md in the repo, and start typing. It works — but it's like living in the hallway of a house you never explore. Here's the full tour: the .elyra/ directory, project-scoped extensions and skills, per-repo model strategy, codebase memory, and separate agent profiles.

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Skills · Jun 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Teach Your Agent New Tricks: Why Elyra Skills Exist (and How to Use Them)

Skills are Markdown workflows your agent loads only when the task matches — they keep your system prompt lean while making the agent dramatically better at specific jobs. Portable across agents, installable in seconds, and open to anyone who wants to share a workflow worth having.

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Elyra · Jun 11, 2026 · 5 min read

The agent that knows what things cost - Elyra v0.9.9

Last release the agent got a wallet. This one teaches the whole loop to think about money — it rations its budget like a road-tripper watching the fuel gauge, explains which model it picks and why, tells you your burn rate, and fact-checks its own model registry against reality. The cost-aware release.

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Elyra · Jun 10, 2026 · 4 min read

A wallet, a rival, and a memory - Elyra v0.9.8

Some releases are about new models. This one is about the relationship between you and your agent. Three small commands with one shared idea — you should be able to let go a little more, without trusting blindly. The loop gets a wallet, a rival, and a memory.

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Elyra Conductor · Jun 10, 2026 · 6 min read

Your Terminal Knows Why the Command Failed. Why Doesn't It Help?

The terminal already had the command, the exit code, the output, the branch — you just re-typed all of it into a chat window. Conductor v0.7.7 is built on one idea: the tool that watched it happen should be the tool that helps. Three features, quietly.

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Elyra Conductor · Jun 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Paying Down Tech Debt Before Coffee Gets Cold: Gradual TypeScript for a Plain JavaScript App - Elyra Conductor v.0.7.6

You don't need three weeks to adopt TypeScript — you need an hour, one config file, and zero renamed files. Here's how we turned on type-checking in a plain-JS Tauri + Svelte app, what fell out of the walls, and how we locked the door behind us.

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Elyra · Jun 10, 2026 · 4 min read

Teaching the agent how models think - Elyra v0.9.7

A small version number with a good story — a bug, a band-aid we refused to keep, and a fix that turns model-thinking knowledge from regex folklore into data. Plus Claude Fable 5, now reachable from many more doors, including ones that keep your data in Europe.

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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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