What's New – May 2025

Written by Evelina Wahlström

Evelina from the product marketing team here with our May roundup of all the developments from the last month across the Sanity ecosystem.

We're only three days away from our biggest launch yet!

On Thursday, you'll find out what cake has to do with Content Operations. But most importantly, we're releasing new features (and products !) you can get your hands on soon.

It's also the perfect moment to join our new community space on Discord to watch it with us and ask all questions you may have. The Sanity team will be hanging out there during and after the premier.

Sign up for the premiere here →

Even though the launch is approaching quickly, our engineering team is always iterating and improving the product as you know it.

Due to the upcoming release, I am keeping things short and sweet in the video edition of this post.

• One of our co-founders, Even Westvang, joined me to speak about the new Sanity MCP Server
• James Warner shares his improvements to the beloved Studio Hotspot/Crop tool.

What we've been cooking 👨‍🍳

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

Instead of finding, updating, or creating content yourself, you can now co-create this with your favorite AI Agent, using your voice!

Our new MCP server connects your Sanity content directly to AI agents like Claude and Cursor, letting you manage content through natural language conversations.

Knut and Even have put together an excellent blog post describing the origin of MCP and what it enables you to do in more detail. The post includes the two fundamental approaches you can use it for: Content Intelligence (knowledge is power, after all!) or Content Operations (get stuff done quicker!), and shares a ton of ideas for how you can use this yourself.

Learn more about the MCP Server →

In short, here is what our MCP server enables you to do:

• Query your content using natural language instead of writing GROQ
• Create and update documents by describing what you want
• Organize content releases and schedule publication
• Explore your schema without digging through documentation
• Get information about your projects

If you want to stop reading (I wouldn't blame you), you can go directly to the source of this (i.e., GitHub) and get started in minutes.

Permission to do that here →

If you are like me, a generalist specialist, and would like more context before diving in, I sat down with Even to discuss MCP as a whole - what it is, what it/you can do, and its future.

Go here for the full conversation →

Image hotspot & crop improvements

James Warner and the Creator Experience Team have been focused on improving this beloved feature, smoothing out the interactions, and increasing accessibility (you can use your keyboard to navigate this now!).

The image schema options now also support a hotspot object for configuring the image hotspot tool. This now enables custom aspect ratios for the crop previews to be applied through configuration.