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fix(terminal): truthful handle liveness + no forked resume tabs for hidden restorable panes (#12574)
* fix(runtime): report terminal handles disconnected on controller-proven PTY absence

leaf.connected mirrors the renderer graph (ptyId !== null), so a restored
surface whose PTY died with a prior process was listed connected/writable
forever with empty title/lastOutputAt/preview — the exact signature automation
saw on run6 workspaces after a restart. listTerminals now threads the
controller inventory it already fetches into buildTerminalSummary and demotes
only on proven absence, only for locally-scoped ids; unknown liveness and
SSH/remote scopes never demote, and no session or pane is retired.

* fix(terminal): stop forking hidden restorable panes into replacement resume tabs

paneWillConnectOnActivation still assumed the pre-keep-alive mount model, but
every non-parked tab of the active worktree mounts and connects hidden at 0x0.
Activation therefore appended a replacement resume tab per non-group-active
agent pane and handed it the sleeping record, stranding the hidden pane as a
bare shell — or forking two live surfaces onto one provider session when the
old PTY survived in the daemon. The predicate now answers "will mount and
connect": any non-web-mirror tab of the active worktree qualifies; non-active
worktrees still answer false so background wake keeps its append-based resume.

Contract change: reverses the hidden-tab expectation from #6800, whose premise
(hidden panes never connect) no longer holds; that test is updated in place.

* test(terminal): pin the remote-scope exemption and the web-mirror ownership exception

CodeRabbit flagged both exclusions as untested: a remote-runtime-scoped leaf
absent from the local inventory must stay connected (its inventory lives on
the remote host), and a web-mirror tab must not own sleeping-session recovery
(it never mounts a local pane), so the appended replacement remains its
correct resume path.

* fix(terminal): rescue just-spawned ptys from absence demotion; unpark panes owning sleeping records

Review (GPT verifier) confirmed two gaps:
- listTerminals demoted a live just-spawned PTY when listProcesses snapshotted
  before session registration (the sweep's hasPty rescue is leaf-gated), and
  federation reads one connected:false as exited. The summary's proven-absence
  check now also consults the provider's sync hasPty.
- Ordinary per-tab cold parking (30s hidden) kept a non-group-active pane
  unmounted, so a sleeping record it owns under the new ownership predicate
  could not cold-restore until the user revealed the tab. Per-tab parks now
  exempt panes owning a sleeping-session record; worktree-level parks are
  untouched (they clear on activation).

* fix(terminal): reconcile the daemon session cache on inventory; scope the park exemption to consumable records

Round-2 review confirmed two holes in the round-1 fixes:
- DaemonPtyAdapter.hasPty is cached activeSessionIds membership, and a
  successful listSessions never removed ids the authoritative inventory
  omitted — an exit missed while the socket was down kept hasPty true
  forever, and the new spawn/list-race rescue would trust it, reopening
  connected-forever for that pty. listProcesses now drops pre-request cached
  ids the inventory does not list alive (ids spawned mid-flight are snapshot-
  protected).
- The park exemption covered records a pane can never consume
  (automaticResumeBlockedBy, passive-completed evidence), pinning hidden
  panes mounted indefinitely. The exemption now lives in
  sleeping-record-park-exemption.ts and requires a consumable record.

Also pins the web-mirror replacement's resume claim and startup command
(CodeRabbit round-2).

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Co-authored-by: OrcaWin <293788423+OrcaWin@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-04 17:20:09 -07:00
.github feat(updater): restart hourly build numbers per version, restyle the timestamp (#12587) 2026-08-04 15:54:17 -07:00
.husky
Casks
build-plugins Keep the app responsive when security software slows process creation (#12217) 2026-08-04 02:03:40 -07:00
config fix(status-bar): invalidate the CLI session count on kill and restart (#12468) 2026-08-04 17:11:18 -07:00
docs Update README downloads badge 2026-08-04 09:51:50 +00:00
examples/plugins feat: bound direct SSH reconnect fan-out and recovery (#11003) 2026-07-28 12:33:17 -07:00
mobile fix(mobile): open the Resume workspace through a mounted host stack (#12001) 2026-08-04 16:06:37 -07:00
native Stop the Windows Orca CLI from crashing when the environment carries both PATH and Path (#12218) 2026-08-03 20:45:23 -07:00
resources feat(plugins): Orca plugin system — kernel, content packs, panels, workers, marketplace v0 (experimental) (#8549) 2026-07-27 01:14:33 -07:00
skill-guides feat(orchestration): coordinator-driven release of settled worker terminals (STA-905) (#12355) 2026-08-03 17:17:26 -07:00
skill-stubs feat(skills): land remaining hybrid stubs (#9846) 2026-07-22 11:43:01 -07:00
skills feat(skills): land remaining hybrid stubs (#9846) 2026-07-22 11:43:01 -07:00
src fix(terminal): truthful handle liveness + no forked resume tabs for hidden restorable panes (#12574) 2026-08-04 17:20:09 -07:00
tests fix(status-bar): invalidate the CLI session count on kill and restart (#12468) 2026-08-04 17:11:18 -07:00
.gitattributes feat(plugins): Orca plugin system — kernel, content packs, panels, workers, marketplace v0 (experimental) (#8549) 2026-07-27 01:14:33 -07:00
.gitignore fix(worktrees): stop silently switching existing Windows setup scripts to Git Bash (#12406) 2026-08-03 23:25:50 -07:00
.npmrc Update .npmrc 2026-07-11 20:53:20 -07:00
.oxfmtrc.json
.oxlintrc.json chore(lint): enable safe performance guard rules (#12073) 2026-08-02 00:14:58 -07:00
AGENTS.md fix(worktrees): stop silently switching existing Windows setup scripts to Git Bash (#12406) 2026-08-03 23:25:50 -07:00
CLAUDE.md
LICENSE
README.md docs: update Android APK link to v0.0.37 (#12515) 2026-08-04 03:12:23 -07:00
components.json
electron.vite.config.ts Keep the app responsive when security software slows process creation (#12217) 2026-08-04 02:03:40 -07:00
orca.yaml
package.json release: v1.4.169-rc.0 2026-08-04 20:44:34 +00:00
pnpm-lock.yaml fix(mobile): render Mermaid diagrams in MobileMarkdown (#11185) 2026-08-03 20:05:16 -07:00
pnpm-workspace.yaml fix(build): stop `pnpm -r` from crawling the mobile workspace (#11291) 2026-07-28 21:34:55 -07:00
tsconfig.json
vite.web.config.ts chore(lint): upgrade oxlint to 1.71 + enable 7 new rules (autofixed backlog) (#6841) 2026-06-29 22:38:29 -07:00

README.md

Orca Orca

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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
Run Codex, ClaudeCode, OpenCode or Pi side-by-side — each in its own worktree, tracked in one place.

Download Orca

Orca desktop app running agents in parallel worktrees, with the Orca mobile companion app in the corner

Features

Mobile Companion

Monitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere.

iOS App Store · TestFlight · Android APK 0.0.37 · Docs →

Orca desktop with the mobile companion app

Parallel Worktrees

Fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner.

Docs →

Parallel worktree orchestration

Terminal Splits

Ghostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts.

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Terminal splits

Design Mode

Click any UI element in a real Chromium window to send its HTML, CSS, and a cropped screenshot straight into your agent's prompt.

Docs →

Embedded browser and Design Mode

GitHub & Linear, Native

Browse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch.

Docs →

GitHub and Linear task workflows in Orca

SSH Worktrees

Run agents on a beefy remote box with full file editing, git, and terminals — auto-reconnect and port forwarding included.

Docs →

Remote worktrees over SSH

Annotate AI Diffs

Drop comments on any diff line and ship them back to the agent — review, edit, and commit without leaving Orca.

Docs →

Annotate AI-generated diffs

Drag Files to Agents

VS Code's editor with autosave everywhere — drag files or images straight into an agent prompt.

Docs →

Drag files and images into an agent prompt

Orca CLI

Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

Docs →

Script Orca from the CLI

Also in the box:

  • Quick open — Search across worktrees, files, agents, commands, and repo context without leaving your flow.
  • Account switcher & usage tracking — See Claude and Codex usage and rate-limit resets, and hot-swap accounts without re-logging in.
  • Rich repo previews — Preview Markdown, images, PDFs, and repo docs in the workspace.
  • Computer Use — Let agents operate desktop apps and visible UI when a workflow needs real interaction.
  • Notifications and unread state — Know when an agent finishes or needs attention, then mark threads unread to come back later.
  • And many, many more — we ship daily, so this list is perpetually behind. The changelog is the real feature list.

Supported Agents

Works with any CLI agent — if it runs in a terminal, it runs in Orca.

Claude Code logo Claude Code   Codex logo Codex   Grok logo Grok   Cursor logo Cursor   GitHub Copilot logo GitHub Copilot   OpenCode logo OpenCode   MiMo Code logo MiMo Code   Amp logo Amp   OpenClaude logo OpenClaude   Antigravity logo Antigravity   Pi logo Pi   oh-my-pi logo oh-my-pi   Hermes Agent logo Hermes Agent   Devin logo Devin   Goose logo Goose   Auggie logo Auggie   Autohand Code logo Autohand Code   Charm logo Charm   Cline logo Cline   Codebuff logo Codebuff   Command Code logo Command Code   Continue logo Continue   Droid logo Droid   Kilocode logo Kilocode   Kimi logo Kimi   Kiro logo Kiro   Mistral Vibe logo Mistral Vibe   Qwen Code logo Qwen Code   Rovo Dev logo Rovo Dev   + any CLI agent


Install

Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux

Or via a package manager:

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca

# Arch Linux (AUR) — or stably-orca-git to build from source
yay -S stably-orca-bin

Mobile Companion — iOS, Android

Pair with your desktop app to monitor and steer your agents from your phone.


Community & Support

  • Discord: Join the community on Discord.

  • Twitter / X: Follow @orca_build for updates and announcements.

  • WeChat: Scan to join the Orca community WeChat group 7.

    WeChat group 7 QR code for the Orca community
  • Feedback & Ideas: We ship fast. Missing something? Request a new feature.

  • Privacy: See the privacy & telemetry docs for what anonymous usage data Orca collects and how to opt out.

  • Show Support: Star this repo to follow along with our daily ships.


Developing

Want to contribute or run locally? See our CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

Orca contributors

GitHub star history chart for stablyai/orca

Signed Builds

Windows code signing sponored/provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

License

Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.