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fix(skills): stop promising a skill update the command cannot deliver (#10436)
* fix(skills): stop promising a skill update the command cannot deliver

An "Update available" badge could never clear: pressing Update ran
`npx skills update <name> --global`, which reported "All global skills are
up to date" and wrote nothing, while the badge stayed on.

Freshness marked a name updatable whenever ANY placement was outdated,
including a standalone duplicate in an agent home. The global command only
converges the canonical copy and its symlink aliases, so a stale duplicate
kept the badge lit with no command that could clear it.

- Count only reliably-convergent placements toward the update promise, so a
  stale duplicate no longer advertises an update that cannot land.
- Give the duplicate chip a real skipped-reason instead of falling through to
  the generic sentence, naming the copy and how to resolve it.
- Surface the existing freshness review dialog from the setup rails via a
  Details link, so a blocked or duplicate copy is explainable where the user
  actually sees the badge. Covers orchestration, Computer Use, Ephemeral VMs,
  Linear, the CLI section, the floating orchestration modal, the Browser Use
  card, and the Mobile Emulator row.

* fix(skills): say when a skill copy needs attention instead of reading as all-clear

A skill with an out-of-date copy the update command cannot reach rendered as a
green "Installed" pill. That is honest about the main copy but reads as
all-clear, so real drift in an agent home stayed invisible — the user had no
reason to suspect there was anything to click.

- Add a needs-attention display status (amber) for a placement that is not
  current but has no eligible update: stale duplicates, edited copies,
  read-only, inaccessible, and broken or external links. Presence-only stays
  green, and an unscanned inventory stays quiet so nothing flashes amber on
  launch.
- State the reason inline on the setup rails, so the cause is readable without
  opening the review dialog; Details still opens the full per-location list.
- Extract the skipped-reason sentence into its own module so the rails and the
  dialog share one source and can never drift apart.
- Carry the state through the settings sidebar badge so the nav and the card
  cannot disagree.

* fix(skills): give the inline skill warning something to point at

The shared reason sentences are deictic — "this copy", "the copy here" — because
they were written for the review dialog, where the location rows they describe sit
directly beneath them. On the setup rails there are no rows, so "this" referred to
nothing and the sentence read as if it were about the skill itself.

Name the offending paths above the sentence on the rails, so the referent is
present before the wording that depends on it. Every copy sharing the blocking
reason is listed, not just the first, so resolving one does not leave the badge
unexplained. The dialog keeps its existing wording and rows unchanged.

* fix(skills): stop withholding the update over copies it cannot reach

Eligibility is now decided purely over the placements the global command actually
converges — the canonical copy and its symlink aliases.

A project skill, plugin cache, standalone duplicate, or unreadable copy in another
agent's home used to withhold the update from the whole name. `skills update
--global` provably never writes any of them, so that refused work the command could
have done over a copy that was never at stake. A blocked *convergent* copy still
withholds it: that is the placement the command writes to, and overwriting it is the
real data-loss case.

Also drop the inline reason from the setup rails. The reasons are written to sit
beside the location rows they describe, so on a card they had nothing to point at and
could only ever name one cause. The rails now mark Details with a warning icon when a
copy needs the user's own hands, and the dialog does the explaining with every
location and cause it knows about.

* fix(skills): make the skill Details affordance read as a control

The review link rendered as bare text, so nothing but hover said it could be
clicked — the badge told the user something was wrong and then gave them no visible
way in.

Use the ghost variant so it carries a hover/focus background and a real hit target
instead of a zero-padding text run, and add a chevron so it reads as a control at
rest. The chevron points right, not down: this opens the review dialog, while a down
chevron already means the in-place expander inside that dialog.
2026-07-24 15:53:22 -07:00
.github fix(skills): decouple skill-manifest verify from local git tags (#10340) 2026-07-24 14:09:28 -07:00
.husky
Casks Put the orca CLI on PATH at install time for headless hosts (#5842) 2026-06-19 15:46:29 -07:00
build-plugins feat(codex): real-home routing + self-contained multi-account homes (#9501) 2026-07-20 14:34:53 -07:00
config fix(skills): decouple skill-manifest verify from local git tags (#10340) 2026-07-24 14:09:28 -07:00
docs Update README downloads badge 2026-07-24 21:44:43 +00:00
mobile feat(mobile): add safe Codex rate-limit resets (#9394) 2026-07-24 14:42:04 -07:00
native fix(cli): preserve multiline arguments on Windows (#8374) 2026-07-12 02:13:41 -07:00
resources fix(mobile): report interrupted native chat sends as delivery-unknown, not failed (#10021) 2026-07-22 19:28:21 -07:00
skill-guides fix(emulator): iOS ax via plain-JSON serve-sim helper (supersedes #10007) (#10029) 2026-07-22 21:30:53 -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(skills): stop promising a skill update the command cannot deliver (#10436) 2026-07-24 15:53:22 -07:00
tests fix(ssh): open external host images from terminal links (#10323) 2026-07-24 12:05:38 -07:00
tools fix(win-e2e): survive the agent-CLI feature-wall modal in the crash-survival harness (#9992) 2026-07-23 18:04:51 -07:00
.gitattributes feat(skills): ship orca-cli as a first-generation hybrid stub (#9238) 2026-07-20 13:13:21 -07:00
.gitignore fix(linux): restore Ubuntu 20.04 launch — pin node-pty glibc symbols + add glibc/libstdc++ packaging gate (#9902) (#10019) 2026-07-22 19:11:44 -07:00
.npmrc Update .npmrc 2026-07-11 20:53:20 -07:00
.oxfmtrc.json
.oxlintrc.json lint(unicorn): enable prefer-number-properties, prefer-array-find, prefer-array-index-of (#7516) 2026-07-05 23:56:37 -07:00
AGENTS.md docs: add folder workspace use case guidance to AGENTS.md 2026-07-23 22:20:43 -07:00
CLAUDE.md
LICENSE
README.md docs: update Android APK to 0.0.32 (#10245) 2026-07-23 17:04:01 -07:00
components.json
electron.vite.config.ts feat(dashboard): add agent dashboard popout (#9604) 2026-07-20 17:11:23 -07:00
orca.yaml
package.json release: v1.4.156-rc.0 2026-07-24 21:53:21 +00:00
pnpm-lock.yaml fix(linux): restore Ubuntu 20.04 launch — pin node-pty glibc symbols + add glibc/libstdc++ packaging gate (#9902) (#10019) 2026-07-22 19:11:44 -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 0.0.32 · 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Annotate AI-generated diffs

Drag Files to Agents

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

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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: All other groups are full, now we're on group 5.

    WeChat 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

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Signed Builds

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License

Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.