Changelog

[0.1.1] — 2026-09-16

Formal documents on MCP

• generate_document produces a uniformly formatted Word file (Property Development Report, Planning Summary, Pre-application Brief, Due Diligence Memo)
• Zoomed site image is embedded in the introduction when Google Static Maps / stored zoom imagery is available
• After generation, an expandable What can urb.works do? card lists available and coming-soon files (Acoustics, ESD, Waste, …)
• show_urbworks_capabilities shows that card on request; hosted copy at /embed/capabilities and /what-else

[0.1.0] — 2026-09-12

First public iteration: a remote MCP server for Victorian planning, used from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or Grok.

Connect

• Subscribe, then add the MCP connector in the assistant you already use
• One subscription works across every connected host
• Victoria is live; Tasmania is not implemented yet

Property and site

• Look up a Victorian address: LGA, zones, overlays, parcels, VicPlan links
• Nearby site surrounds (features of interest, brief parcel context)
• Planning layers: bushfire, easements (on-lot vs nearby), water, transport, Vicmap property/address

Scheme and guides

• Search the planning scheme menu (gist cards, not full text)
• Fetch live clause text with citation (parent clauses, subsections, schedules)
• Search indexed planning-guide chunks

Calculator

• ResCode / site math: coverage, permeability, garden area, setbacks, walls on boundary, solar access, units, shadow, DMS
• List calculator operations before running one