v0.1.3 — Let the Whole Project In

Author

fariazinhu

🗓️ July 2026

/genesis was still leaving real projects behind. The scanner's budget was sized for a small model, so a mid-size codebase would blow past it and dozens of files got listed as omitted — the docs came out great, but built on a partial picture. This release opens the budget up to fit modern large-context models and puts the limits in your hands.

🐛 Fixes

• Context scanner no longer omits files from real projects. The scan budget was too conservative (300KB total, 32KB per file), so a project of any real size would trip "project context budget exceeded" and drop files from the AI's view. Defaults are now sized for modern large-context models (Gemini 1M–2M, Claude up to 1M tokens): 2MB total and 128KB per file, with the file walk raised to 10,000 files and tree depth to 12. A typical project now goes in whole
• Omitted files are still reported explicitly, never dropped in silence — but with the wider budget, that list should stay empty for most projects

✨ Features

• Configurable scan budget — every limit is now overridable via environment variable, so you can open it up further for a huge repo or tighten it for a small local model:
  • AETHER_MAX_TOTAL_CHARS — total character budget (default 2,000,000)
  • AETHER_MAX_FILE_SIZE — per-file size cap in bytes (default 128,000)
  • AETHER_MAX_FILES_WALKED — max files the walker visits (default 10,000)
  • AETHER_MAX_WALK_DEPTH — max directory depth (default 12)