SmartHopper 0.3.4-alpha: Powerful New Grouping & List Tools for Grasshopper

[marc-romu]

✨ Group Components Directly from Chat

• NEW: AI chat can now instantly group components on your canvas using the new function.
• Why it matters: Organize your Grasshopper definitions with a single prompt—add notes, highlight groups, and make complex scripts easier to manage and review.
• How to use: Just ask the AI to group selected components or create a named group; the AI will handle the rest, visually highlighting them for you.

📝 AI Text List Generate

• NEW: The component lets you generate a custom list of text items from any prompt.
• Why it matters: Effortlessly create lists for labels, instructions, or any repetitive text—saving time and reducing manual errors.

🏗️ Technical & Coding Improvements

• Context filtering: Easily include or exclude providers and context using wildcards () or the new syntax.
• Better defaults: Improved system prompts and filtering logic help the AI focus on your Grasshopper workflow.
• Refactored managers: Provider, context, and tool managers have been reorganized for clarity and extensibility.
• Renaming: is now for clearer project structure.
• Expanded tool categories: All AI tools are now categorized for easier discovery.

🛠️ Technical Requirements

• Rhino 8.19 or above is required
• Windows 10/11 (MacOS has not been tested)
• Valid API keys for MistralAI, OpenAI or DeepSeek

⚠️ Important Notes

• This is an alpha release—some features are experimental or may change
• API keys are required; usage costs depend on your provider
• Documentation is still in progress

🤝 We Value Your Feedback!

Help shape SmartHopper's future by:

• Sharing your experiences with the new features
• Suggesting improvements via our discussion
• Telling us what AI capabilities would help your workflow most

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements!

Happy designing! 🎨

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• feat(chat): add system prompt input to AI Chat Component by @marc-romu in feat(chat): add system prompt input to AI Chat Component #236
• refactor: reorganize project structure and rename SmartHopper.Config to SmartHopper.Infrastructure by @marc-romu in refactor: reorganize project structure and rename SmartHopper.Config to SmartHopper.Infrastructure #238
• feat(context): add support for excluding all providers/context by @marc-romu in feat(context): add support for excluding all providers/context #239
• feat(aitools): new group ai tool by @marc-romu in feat(aitools): new group ai tool #241
• feat(components): add list_generate AI tool and AITextListGenerate component by @marc-romu in feat(components): add list_generate AI tool and AITextListGenerate component #242
• feat(infrastructure): improve filtering capabilities with new Filter class by @marc-romu in feat(infrastructure): improve filtering capabilities with new Filter class #243

Full Changelog: 0.3.3-alpha...0.3.4-alpha

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