Rexa v0.8.0

October 27, 2026

Terminal

Draw images sent with the kitty graphics protocol: PNG, RGB and RGBA images that scroll with the text, in front of or behind it. A terminal keeps up to 64 MB of images; they clear with the screen and don't come back after Rexa relaunches yet.
cmd-k keeps the line your cursor is on at the top, like other terminals, instead of blanking every row; it leaves a full-screen program such as Vim or Claude Code alone.
A cleared terminal or run log stays clear after Rexa relaunches; the cleared output used to come back.
Fix clear leaving the old screen in the scrollback.
Fix Claude Code leaving a copy of its banner in the scrollback at every step of making its pane narrower.
Add a scrollbar over terminal history: it shows while you scroll through it, and you can drag it or click its track.
Fix gaps between block characters, such as Claude Code's logo and progress bars.
Fix Claude Code's first screen drawing in two halves.
Fix a terminal freezing when a program stopped in the middle of a synchronized screen update.

Fix the extension host crashing every so often while Codex, Cursor or OpenCode wrote to its database, which stopped agent cards from updating.
Fix agents such as Codex and OpenCode disappearing after the extension host restarted, until Rexa relaunched.
Fix restored agents losing their session at startup when their adapter took more than 15 seconds to load.
Fix resuming an agent whose launch command you set in Settings: it started a new conversation, and after a terminal restart its card was lost. The resume now runs your command with the agent's own resume flags.
Fix an agent card disappearing after Rexa restarts its terminal, when the agent took a moment to resume.
Fix an agent typed into a fish shell, or into a shell started by its full path, getting no card.
Pi cards recognize omp and read the session files it writes.
Fix a Pi card's status not following a turn Pi reported, and Pi sessions whose title comes before their header not loading.

An agent card working in a worktree of its own shows a worktree mark; click it for that worktree's actions. Turn it off in Settings → General → Worktrees → Card worktree icon.
Dragging an agent card over another worktree shows where it will land, and the drop puts it there.

Create a file or folder from the files palette (cmd-p): type a path that doesn't exist yet and pick "Create file", or end it with / for "Create folder"; cmd-enter creates it from any row. An existing file is opened, never overwritten.

Rexa runs natively on Windows as an experimental build, unsigned; the deltaqdev/rexa-releases README has the install command.

Updating to 0.8.0 restarts every open terminal once: the terminal service's protocol changed. Agent cards resume their sessions.
cmd-k and the terminal menu's Clear keep the prompt line; they used to blank every row. A run log's Clear still wipes it all.
Rexa starts Claude Code with CLAUDE_CODE_FORCE_SYNC_OUTPUT=1, so Claude draws each screen in one piece. Set it in terminal.env to override.
A program that holds a synchronized screen update open for more than 1 second has its output drawn anyway.
Rexa refuses an update whose release list carries a signature that doesn't match Rexa's release key. Unsigned lists are still accepted.
rexa commands print your home folder as ~ instead of ~/.
Terminals report their size in device pixels (twice the points on a Retina display), and a move to another display resizes the terminal, so image tools size pictures to the screen.
rexa extension reload <id> is refused while that extension is still loading late after a restart, for up to 2 minutes.