v0.1.3

SHA256 (needle-v0.1.3-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip): 173c605771f829a6ee13efeb2d93d8b5ff72ee0bbcc516b16314cab840e0244a

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v0.1.2

SHA256 (needle-v0.1.2-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip): 2d65278a25faa730c44cebbccc5262aec03ac1bfbb57ea0d3f931b9bc18412b3

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v0.1.1

SHA256 (needle-v0.1.1-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip): 288d33ea9587523173a80ee613bf6a0603c300a2b1b805fe585e394637db85e8

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needle v0.1.0

First tagged release of needle — a whole-machine, sub-millisecond file-search MCP server for AI agents (Windows / NTFS).

Highlights

• Reads the NTFS MFT directly and keeps a warm in-memory index, refreshed incrementally from the USN Journal.
• fast_glob MCP tool so an agent can find any file on the machine in well under a millisecond.
• Extension inverted index: whole-volume extension globs answered in 0.2–0.9 ms on a 2.27M-file drive.
• ~400x faster than the pre-index full scan; beats Everything's es.exe ~3x and traversal tools (fd/dir/ripgrep) by 79–1049x in the bundled head-to-head.
• Split daemon + MCP frontend to cross the admin boundary; installable as a Windows service (LocalSystem, auto-start) so the daemon never needs manual launch.
• Subcommands: find, query, bench, serve, mcp, service install/uninstall.

Known limitations / next up

• Whole-machine search currently indexes per-drive on demand; true multi-drive enumeration is the next milestone.
• No automated tests / CI yet.
• Loopback query API is unauthenticated.