Ada v0.1.23

Search, file attachments, and six new agent tools

Search. Ctrl+P opens a file by name, Ctrl+Shift+F searches text across the project — one palette, a real toggle between the two, and a button in the sidebar so the shortcuts aren't the only way in. Results jump to the line.

Files as context. Attach files from a picker or drag them in from the file tree. Each becomes an @name chip you can click to open and hover to remove.

Chat without a folder. "Just chat" on the welcome screen, one centred column, and your recent projects one hover away.

Six new agent tools — git, browser (screenshots, console and DOM from a real browser), notebook_edit for Jupyter files, create_page for self-contained HTML pages and slide decks, subagents that run in the editor, and ui_ux_search: a design corpus of 84 visual styles, 192 palettes and 74 font pairings the agent consults before writing any UI.

Cheaper turns. Tool schemas are sent only when a turn actually needs them — an ordinary coding request carries 1,772 tokens of schemas instead of 3,848, and "hi" costs about 272 tokens instead of 6,000. Measured against Claude Code on five tasks in the same repository: 444k tokens against 893k, $3.05 against $4.68.

Fewer broken files. JavaScript the agent writes is parsed before it reports success, so a missing bracket surfaces at write time instead of as a blank page. Ada also warns when a page it wrote needs the network to render.

Fixes. Ada can ask you a question from the editor, not just the terminal; two streamed tool calls are no longer spliced into one set of arguments; and when a provider rejects a request you see its actual error instead of the router's wrapper.

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Downloads

Platform	File
Windows	Ada-Setup-0.1.23.exe
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Ada-0.1.23-arm64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	Ada-0.1.23.dmg
Linux	Ada-0.1.23.AppImage

macOS builds are signed and notarized by Apple. On Windows, if SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway.

Ada v0.1.22

Word documents (generate_docx) alongside decks, native charts and KPI tiles in both, images generated through the backend, a resizable sidebar, one-line processing status, and Open buttons for generated files.

Note: this release currently ships the Windows installer. macOS and Linux builds follow shortly.

Ada v0.1.21

Built-in PowerPoint generation — the agent can now create real .pptx decks directly (no setup). Plus a more disk-friendly semantic index. Windows & Linux auto-update from v0.1.16+.

Ada v0.1.20

New hacker theme on the agent chat (green terminal accents), on top of the v0.1.19 UI polish. Windows & Linux auto-update from v0.1.16+.

Ada v0.1.19

UI polish release.

Ada v0.1.18

Fixes Windows auto-update (the installer name now matches the update feed) and ships the 286 bundled skills. Windows & Linux users on v0.1.16+ update automatically.

Ada v0.1.17

Fixes the bundled skills: the 286 built-in skills are now actually included in the installer (they were missing on fresh installs). Windows & Linux users on v0.1.16+ get this automatically.

Ada v0.1.16

Automatic updates (Windows & Linux): the app now downloads new versions in the background and shows a bottom-left toast to restart. macOS auto-update lands once builds are signed. Includes the earlier fixes for wrong/missing replies.

Ada v0.1.15

Fixes: replies right after opening a folder (no more 'attach the codebase' — the app now waits for the agent), and turns that did work but showed no answer (the agent now always writes a final response). No UI changes.

Ada v0.1.14

Maintenance release — internal code cleanup and build-pipeline hardening. No user-facing changes vs v0.1.13.