Traditional reference managers are not agent-friendly: highlights and notes stay locked inside single files, making it hard for agents to reuse knowledge across papers; every conversation starts from scratch without a stable local knowledge map; PDFs are human-friendly but not the most comfortable reading material for agents. Agentero aims to build an agent-friendly, agent-native way to manage references, exploring how humans and agents collaborate on reference management. Connect your local agent via ACP (BYOA), select-text chat, import papers and Skills, stay compatible with the Zotero ecosystem, and get paper translation, bidirectional links with a knowledge graph, and deep PDF reading.
What's new in 0.12.0
0.12.0 turns each paper into an expandable multi-document workspace: the file tree shows extra notes and HTML at the paper root, the reading layout maximizes the active pane and can pin paper and notes into two columns, and rail widths and main-window state survive restarts. Sync gains a Git backend for full-vault sync and a headless agentero sync command, while self-hosted MinerU arrives alongside fixes for resize performance, PDF annotations, and agent installation. Features - Self-hosted MinerU: Settings gains a "Self-hosted API" switch, with the official cloud still the default; when enabled, the app detects MinerU 4.0+ V1 and 3.x /tasks deployments automatically, supports LAN http and Bearer auth, and routes both layout analysis and PAPER.md body parsing through the self-hosted service. (#763 by @exciton00) - Full-vault Git sync: Settings → Sync adds a Git backend where the Vault root is the work tree; configure a remote and branch (default main) for GitHub, GitLab, self-hosted Git, or a local bare repository. It uses system Git credentials or SSH, supports manual and automatic sync, and uses Git's native three-way merge when conflicts occur; conflicting passes abort without auto-resolving. (93ba55b9 by @qychen2001) Improvements - Resize and long-note performance: Dragging a panel sash, the side rails, or resizing the window no longer re-runs container queries every frame; PDF viewport metrics and Markdown relayout share one resize-gesture signal, the TOC observer has a long lifetime, and math is rendered only near the viewport with its previous size preserved. In the reproduction case, document DOM nodes dropped from 202,986 to 13,424. (#777 by @Fengsuid) Fixes - Silent long-note truncation: Notes containing LaTeX braces or MDX-sensitive text such as $\rho<1$ are no longer rendered partially with the rest silently dropped; if MDX parsing still fails, the whole body is re-parsed without MDX, and the status-bar count now includes equation text. (#777 by @Fengsuid) - PDF annotation deletion and translated hit testing: Highlight deletions persist immediately and are no longer dropped by the commit lock; deleted annotations are excluded from rendering, hit testing, and editing. With full-text translation visible, clicking a translated highlight still opens the annotation menu. (a745a446 by @qychen2001) …
