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Storybook

DESIGN
Velocity6.3

Workshop for building, documenting and testing UI components in isolation.

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Storybook is turning its component workshop into a tool surface agents can call.

component-workshopmcpagent-toolingangularfrontend-testingtypescript
◆Current state
The 10.6.0 alpha train is running two workstreams at once. One is Angular: replacing Compodoc with an in-process docgen analyzer, gated behind a flag, with story-docs snippets generated from it. The other is Skills - a series of milestone PRs building toolsets, MCP wiring, and now public storybook skills and storybook tools commands. Routine framework upkeep fills the rest: TypeScript 6, TanStack fixes, Next.js and Vite plumbing.
◆Where it's heading
The Skills milestones have been landing in order - defineToolset and the manifest component API in alpha.4, the core toolsets reworked in alpha.6, then addon-mcp and @storybook/mcp moved onto those shared toolsets, then the CLI commands derived from them at runtime. That sequence turns Storybook from a place where a developer looks at components into a service an agent can query for them. Alongside it, the Angular docgen rewrite removes a long-standing external dependency, and the experimental Playwright CT integration was dropped - the train is consolidating as much as it is adding.
◆Prediction
With toolsets shared across the MCP packages and both CLI commands public, the remaining Skills milestones should surface documentation and defaults - which toolsets ship enabled, and how an agent discovers them - before 10.6.0 leaves alpha.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.6 ships storybook skills and tools commands

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    The Skills workstream becomes public in this alpha: storybook skills and storybook tools land as CLI commands, the core toolsets are reworked into their intended shape, and addon-mcp and @storybook/mcp are moved onto those shared toolsets. Angular also gets an in-process docgen analyzer replacing Compodoc behind a flag, and the experimental Playwright CT integration is removed.

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  2. 8d ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.5 completes the Angular Compodoc extraction

    Compodoc parsing is extracted into its own package and run on demand or on the server, required inputs are derived from Compodoc's own flag, and input/output alias collisions stop being treated as two-way bindings. Groundwork for the in-process analyzer that replaces Compodoc one alpha later.

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  3. 15d ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.4 adds defineToolset and manifest component API

    The alpha that introduced the toolset API the Skills work now builds on, alongside pseudo-state selector fixes, Webpack mock cache correctness, and updated AI setup instructions in the CLI. At the time it read as internal plumbing; alpha.6 shows what it was for.

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  4. 25d ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.3: addon-vitest and TanStack fixes

    Four fixes: dependency prebundling for addon-vitest, React Native telemetry detection, a PrismJS dark mode mismatch, and TanStack route overrides. A small maintenance alpha in the middle of the train.

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  5. 29d ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.2: docs search and TanStack shell fixes

    Two changes - docs stories appear as docs results in search, and TanStack Start's document shell is kept out of stories. The smallest entry in the alpha series.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Storybook 10.6.0-alpha.1 upgrades to TypeScript 6 and extends TanStack routing

    TypeScript moves to 6.0.3 with the Angular-Vite peer range widened to match, a dropped platform-browser-dynamic dependency, TanStack detection in peer dependencies, and an experimental batch filter API in the Manager. Platform catch-up that set the baseline for the rest of the train.

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