Cercano v0.20.2 — First Standalone Agent Beta

First beta of the standalone Cercano agent

Cercano v0.20.2 is the first beta of Cercano as a standalone agent—the next step beyond its earlier coprocessor role. It now ships as an agent plus a terminal client, so you can run Cercano directly without a source checkout or development launcher.

Each archive includes two executables:

• cercano — the agent that performs the work.
• cercano-cli — the terminal client. Start here; it launches the agent when needed.

This beta is available for macOS Apple Silicon and Linux x86-64. We welcome testing and bug reports, especially around installation, first-run setup, and everyday agent use. Expect rough edges: Linux is experimental, Windows is not included in this release, and full cross-platform runtime validation is still in progress. Models and provider credentials are configured separately and are not bundled.

Downloads

• Linux x86-64: unsigned experimental archive containing cercano and cercano-cli. Native Ubuntu build, isolated version smoke tests, and process-helper tests passed. Full runtime and distribution support is still being validated; this is not a Debian/APT package.
• macOS Apple Silicon: Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized archive containing both binaries. Build, signing, notarization and archive verification passed.
• SHA-256 checksum files are provided for both archives.

Windows is not included: its workflow-test harness failed before compilation. The overall rehearsal run is red for that reason. The successful Linux/macOS artifacts are published separately with explicit operator authorization; no Windows tests were bypassed or claimed to pass.

Artifacts are the unchanged outputs of CI run 36798835095, commit 15ae973ae49105c14b7c229a3e44c2f6c1297021.

Linux quick start

sha256sum -c cercano-0.20.2-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf cercano-0.20.2-linux-x64.tar.gz
./cercano-0.20.2-linux-x64/bin/cercano-cli

Models and provider credentials are not included. Headless credential storage and full agent/model operation remain under validation.