March 27, 2026
Studiov0.53.0

Skills that stay in sync across your whole team

Hamster CLI now syncs your skills in both directions. Initiatives now work directly from chat.

Two-Way Skill Sync

Update a skill locally, run hamster skills sync, and your whole team gets the change. New skills created locally appear in Hamster on the next sync.

The Hamster Studio Skills page with a terminal overlay running hamster skills sync, showing updated and already-synced skills

Get started with skills.

Initiatives in Chat

Hamster can now create initiatives, link briefs, reorder priorities, and check what's in flight directly from chat.

A Hamster chat conversation creating the Platform Hardening initiative, linking three briefs, and updating its status to refining

Learn more about Initiatives.

Improvements

  • Hamster now responds in whichever language you write in
  • The Member role is now called Creator
  • PDF text extraction no longer drops content from scanned and image-heavy documents

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed layout issues on the initiatives, briefs, and skills list views
  • Fixed the creator filter dismiss button not appearing after page reload
  • Fixed blueprint threads appearing empty on repeat visits
  • Fixed an error page appearing after connecting Notion, even though the connection succeeded