@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "blender-developer-tools",
   "displayName": "Blender Developer Tools",
   "description": "Cursor and Claude Code skills, rules, snippets, and templates for Blender Python add-on and scripting development",
-  "version": "0.85.2",
+  "version": "0.85.6",
   "author": {
     "name": "TMHSDigital",
     "email": "contact@users.noreply.github.com"
 
@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [0.85.6] - 2026-09-26
+
+See [release notes](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Blender-Developer-Tools/releases/tag/v0.85.6) for details.
+
+## [0.85.5] - 2026-09-26
+
+See [release notes](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Blender-Developer-Tools/releases/tag/v0.85.5) for details.
+
+## [0.85.4] - 2026-09-26
+
+See [release notes](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Blender-Developer-Tools/releases/tag/v0.85.4) for details.
+
+## [0.85.3] - 2026-09-26
+
+See [release notes](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Blender-Developer-Tools/releases/tag/v0.85.3) for details.
+
 ## [0.85.2] - 2026-09-26
 
 See [release notes](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Blender-Developer-Tools/releases/tag/v0.85.2) for details.
 
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with co
 
 ## Project Overview
 
-The **Blender Developer Tools** repository is at **v0.85.2**. It packages skills, rules, snippets, starter templates, and runnable smoke-gated examples for Blender Python development with Cursor and Claude Code. Coverage targets **Blender 5.2 LTS** (current stable) with **Blender 4.5 LTS** fallback. **Blender 5.1** is prior stable. There is no MCP server; content is consumed directly by the AI when working in Blender add-on or scripting projects.
+The **Blender Developer Tools** repository is at **v0.85.6**. It packages skills, rules, snippets, starter templates, and runnable smoke-gated examples for Blender Python development with Cursor and Claude Code. Coverage targets **Blender 5.2 LTS** (current stable) with **Blender 4.5 LTS** fallback. **Blender 5.1** is prior stable. There is no MCP server; content is consumed directly by the AI when working in Blender add-on or scripting projects.
 
-**Version:** 0.85.2
+**Version:** 0.85.6
 **License:** CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
 **Author:** TM Hospitality Strategies
 
 
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ byte images stay straight 8-bit. Also witnesses `EXR color_mode='RGB'` dropping
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 <td width="46%" valign="middle">
-<a href="examples/sky-texture-sun-elevation/"><img src="examples/sky-texture-sun-elevation/preview.webp" alt="Sky texture sun elevation: pale glazed jar diptych on a dark floor — left panel low sun at 8 degrees, the jar dim twilight blue under a deep blue zenith, right panel high sun at 55 degrees, the jar bright under a pale daylight sky" /></a>
+<a href="examples/sky-texture-sun-elevation/"><img src="examples/sky-texture-sun-elevation/preview.webp" alt="Sky texture sun elevation: diptych of a red-granite obelisk on a paved plaza lit only by the sky — left panel sun at 8 degrees, navy dusk with an orange horizon glow and the obelisk face raked orange, right panel sun at 55 degrees, bright blue midday sky, sunlit paving and a short shadow" /></a>
 </td>
 <td valign="middle">
 
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ code misses across 4.5 → 5.1. `sky_type` is `NISHITA` on 4.5 LTS and
 `MULTIPLE_SCATTERING` on 5.1 (`NISHITA` gone); `dust_density` exists only on 4.5
 (`aerosol_density` on 5.1). Two tiny Cycles EXR zenith probes assert
 `sun_elevation` 8° → 55° brightens zenith (rise **2.25x** / **1.50x**, gate ≥ 1.25).
-Gallery still is a dual-elevation diptych so the contract reads at thumbnail scale.
+Gallery still is a sky-lit obelisk diptych (8° dusk | 55° midday) so the contract reads at thumbnail scale.
 
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 </tr>
@@ -850,13 +850,13 @@ byte-identical on 4.5.11 and 5.1.2 and guarded against future renames.
 </tr>
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 <td width="46%" valign="middle">
-<a href="examples/export-preset-axis/"><img src="examples/export-preset-axis/preview.webp" alt="Export preset axis: a radio beacon exported under Unity and Godot glTF presets and re-imported side by side on a dark studio floor - Unity standing with a glowing cap, Godot lying on its base - proving the two files have different vertex orientation" /></a>
+<a href="examples/export-preset-axis/"><img src="examples/export-preset-axis/preview.webp" alt="Export preset axis: a red-and-white radio mast exported under Unity and Godot glTF presets and re-imported side by side on a dark studio floor, each beside a red-green-blue axis gizmo - Unity standing with blue Z up, Godot lying with green Y up and blue Z along the mast - proving the two files have different vertex orientation" /></a>
 </td>
 <td valign="middle">
 
 ### [export-preset-axis](examples/export-preset-axis/)
 
-The same beacon mesh under the Unity (`export_yup=True`) and Godot
+The same radio-mast mesh under the Unity (`export_yup=True`) and Godot
 (`export_yup=False`) glTF presets. Re-importing each file proves the axis
 conversion: Unity stands, Godot lies along `-Y`. `--same-axis` exports both
 Y-up and the differ check exits 9. Neighbor of
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ Neighbor of [`lod-decimate-chain`](examples/lod-decimate-chain/).
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-<a href="examples/vertex-weight-limit/"><img src="examples/vertex-weight-limit/preview.webp" alt="Vertex weight limit: a posed mech arm on a dark studio floor - orange armor shells, a glowing teal flex cuff around the hex-bolted elbow hinge, long plated forearm, three-finger gripper - deformed by weights pruned to the four-influence engine cap" /></a>
+<a href="examples/vertex-weight-limit/"><img src="examples/vertex-weight-limit/preview.webp" alt="Vertex weight limit: an orange industrial robot arm reaching down with a two-jaw gripper, painted with its own post-limit skin weights - each rigid segment glows in its bone colour and the back cables grade blue to teal to violet to magenta across the joints" /></a>
 </td>
 <td valign="middle">
 
@@ -908,9 +908,10 @@ Neighbor of [`lod-decimate-chain`](examples/lod-decimate-chain/).
 The game-engine max-four-bone-influences constraint, enforced through the data
 API (`v.groups` + `VertexGroup.remove` + renormalize) rather than the
 `bpy.ops.object.vertex_group_limit_total` context path. Asserts the pre-limit
-boots really carry five influences, no vertex ends over the cap, weights still
+cables really carry five influences, no vertex ends over the cap, weights still
 sum to one, the pose survives pruning, and the modifier is still exact linear
-blend skinning read back from the mesh's own deform layer.
+blend skinning read back from the mesh's own deform layer. The render paints
+those post-limit weights onto the arm as a colour attribute.
 
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@@ -1046,17 +1047,17 @@ smoothed render inverts on sight if the panel binding does.
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-<a href="examples/car-mirror-symmetry/"><img src="examples/car-mirror-symmetry/preview.webp" alt="Car mirror symmetry: a red low-poly hatchback on a dark studio floor, light windshield band and white headlamp pair — lofted as one half and completed by the Mirror modifier evaluated through the depsgraph, proving 2n-c counts, exact negated-X partners, a welded watertight centerline, and wheels mirrored about origins on the plane" /></a>
+<a href="examples/car-mirror-symmetry/"><img src="examples/car-mirror-symmetry/preview.webp" alt="Car mirror symmetry: a red stylized hatchback on a dark studio floor, tinted glass, black pillars and arch cladding, spoked wheels, and a matched headlamp and door-mirror pair either side of one centered grille — lofted as one half and completed by the Mirror modifier evaluated through the depsgraph, proving 2n-c counts, exact negated-X partners, a welded watertight centerline, and wheels mirrored about origins on the plane" /></a>
 </td>
 <td valign="middle">
 
 ### [car-mirror-symmetry](examples/car-mirror-symmetry/)
 
 The Mirror + depsgraph contract: the datablock holds only the authored half
-(126/231/106, 28 centerline verts) while the evaluated mesh is the welded
+(676/1289/614, 104 centerline verts) while the evaluated mesh is the welded
 whole — exactly `2n − c` verts, watertight with Euler 2, every vertex paired
-at negated X (deviation 0.0). Wheels and lamps mirror about object origins
-parked **on** the symmetry plane — offset the data, never the object.
+at negated X (deviation 0.0). Wheels, lamps, grille, mirrors and handles mirror
+about object origins parked **on** the symmetry plane — offset the data, never the object.
 Companion to [`depsgraph-export`](examples/depsgraph-export/) (evaluated-vs-
 original) and [`shape-key-blend`](examples/shape-key-blend/) (non-destructive
 evaluation). Break the mirror and the render is literally half a car.
 
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Roadmap
 
-**Current:** v0.85.2
+**Current:** v0.85.6
 
 Themes are listed in order. Shipped themes note the release they landed in (for reference,
 not a commitment); upcoming themes are intentionally **not** pinned to a version number, so
 
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.85.2
+0.85.6