# OPVS v1.17.1: OPVS v1.17.1 — the client kit routes an idea to a board

Source: https://opvs.ai/changelog/v1.17.1

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The OPVS client kit and the @opvs-ai/opvs skill, now 1.3.1, give a new client's coding session a route for an idea. In our own test, a fresh session with the old kit found no such route, so it built a web page and opened no board.

### What's new in v1.17.1

- An idea has its own row at the front door. The first row of the skill's "What are you trying to do?" table is now "I have an idea, build me X". Its recipe confirms the idea with one question, plans it, makes the board, writes cards with dependencies and opens the first card's pull request in your own repository.

- Your editor lists the OPVS skills. The kit now writes a short header, a name and a description, on every skill file it copies, so Claude Code lists them. Before, it copied them without one, and our test session saw none of the 9 OPVS skills.

- The project block names only what the kit ships. The preflight check runs with --online, and staff commands such as /start and /ship are marked "OPVS staff only", because a client install does not include them.

- Onboarding says what you do first. Your brand admin switches agent tokens on before handing over the kit, you approve the project's MCP server when you first open it, and a machine without unzip extracts it with python3 -m zipfile -e.

Every step a new client needs is now written inside the kit itself.

Read the skill at https://opvs.ai/skills/opvs-ai/opvs and every release note at https://opvs.ai/changelog.