export const meta = {
  title: "Connect Aspect to your AI tools",
  description: "You can now bring your Aspect library into a compatible AI assistant through MCP. You also get reusable watermark controls for share links, sharper image previews, and a faster way to open Settings.",
  slug: "2026-04-30-connect-aspect-to-your-ai-tools",
  date: "2026-04-30",
  draft: false,
}

## New features

- **Connect Aspect to your AI assistant with MCP.** You can now connect a compatible AI assistant to Aspect through the hosted MCP server. From that assistant, you can search assets, read transcripts, organize folders and collections, and manage share links using the access available to your connection.
- **Create reusable watermarks.** You can now create reusable text watermarks and preview how they look before saving them. Adjust the position, size, and opacity, then choose a saved watermark when setting up a share link.

## Improvements

- **Sharper image previews.** You can now review sharper image previews at up to 1080p. Your HDR and high-bit-depth images also receive improved color and transparency handling, making those previews more useful during review.
- **Recognize downloaded proxies.** You can now tell downloaded proxies apart from originals by the `_proxy` suffix in their filenames. This makes it easier to keep the right version of a file in your local workflow.
- **Open Settings from the keyboard.** You can now open Settings with Cmd+, on Mac or Ctrl+, on Windows. The shortcut gives you a quick way to reach your preferences without navigating through menus.

## Bug fixes

- **Keep browsing large file lists.** You can now keep scrolling through large file grids and lists without loading more files stalling in the same way. Your next set of results should appear as you continue browsing.