PageIndex v0.2.11 adds a Flash engine that builds the document tree from layout statistics with no LLM in the structure step

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Released 2026-08-25, PageIndex (35,332 stars) makes Flash the local default for its vectorless, reasoning-based RAG: the tree comes from layout stats rather than an LLM, with LLMs writing only the node summaries, and tree expansion now proposes a wave of nodes concurrently instead of one round-trip at a time. Embedded PDF bookmarks are consumed when trustworthy, and optimize='merge' gives a fully deterministic LLM-free pass while the default 'full' adds LLM expansion. The release also puts local and cloud behind one identical client surface, and exposes agent bindings directly with client.agent_tools(), as_openai_tools(), as_anthropic_tools() and as_claude_mcp(), so prompts port between local and cloud unchanged.