0.2.0 — 2026-07-06

Release Notes

Token-safe retrieval defaults: search results are now sized for agent context windows out of the box.

• Breaking-ish pre-1.0: search now requests query-aware highlights by default at Exa's server default length; use --highlights N to cap highlight characters or --no-highlights for metadata-only results. Bare search --text and similar --text now request text.maxCharacters=1500; use --text full or --text 0 for uncapped text. Bare contents --text remains uncapped.
• Breaking-ish pre-1.0: default --max-output-bytes drops from 1 MiB to 48 KiB for agent context safety. Spill files are now pretty-printed JSON.

Install exa-agent-cli 0.2.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/treygoff24/exa-agent-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/exa-agent-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install treygoff24/tap/exa-agent

Download exa-agent-cli 0.2.0

File	Platform	Checksum
exa-agent-cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
exa-agent-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
exa-agent-cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
exa-agent-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum