* fix(skills): keep computer-use off filesystem and shell tasks
STA-7615: "On my desktop create a folder" was matching computer-use because
discovery copy said OS/window-level and neighboring skills advertised desktop UI.
Scope the trigger to visible GUI with no CLI path, and exclude files/folders/git/shell.
* fix(skills): prefer programmatic paths over computer-use
State the last-resort rule in discovery copy instead of enumerating
files/folders/git/shell. computer-use prefers shell, filesystem, git, HTTP,
CLIs, and Playwright/CDP; neighboring skills route to Computer Use only when
a visible window needs GUI control those cannot do.
* fix(skills): stop advertising computer-use from orchestration
Orchestration coordinates workers; it does not drive a GUI. Drop Computer Use
and Playwright/embedded-browser routing from its discovery description so
those tools are not pulled in from a coordination skill.
* fix(skills): drop Playwright from orca-cli discovery
orca-cli should not prescribe Playwright or CDP. Those tools may not be
installed, and page automation is not this skill's job.
* fix(skills): drop the page-only ban from computer-use discovery
Page automation is a preference, not a prohibition. If Playwright or CDP is
not available, a visible browser window is valid Computer Use. Keep the
hard split for Orca's embedded browser (`orca-cli`) only.
* skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard
Every guide leads with Result / Done / Safe failure, states conditions instead of case lists, keeps one done bar and one autonomy envelope, and loads references at the point of use via `skills get <topic> --full`. orca-cli drops from 424 to 260 always-loaded lines with three references; orca-per-workspace-env from 794 to 397 with five.
Defects fixed in shipped guides: `emulator camera` (no such command), iOS `permissions` (backend refuses it), Android pane described as in development, `relayGracePeriodSeconds: 0` documented as immediate teardown (it is unbounded), doctor `ok: true` hiding `warn`, an SSH exemplar setting both `jumpHost` and `proxyCommand`, a provisioned-root fetch from `origin`, and the Linear unconfirmed-write rule keyed on four verbs when ten emit it.
The resolver ladder, placeholder rule, and older-binary fallback shared by every installable SKILL.md now come from one skill-stubs/_shared/cli-resolution.md fragment composed by the generator, which also bundles per-guide references into --full. New guards: every ORCA invocation and flag resolves against COMMAND_SPECS, descriptions carry no angle-bracket tokens, reference routing is checked both ways, and an always-loaded size ratchet (300 lines) that guides may leave but never join.
* skills: address review on the SSH recipe and the parity guard
- ssh-host create script: route the bootstrap ssh through the chosen jump host or proxy command, refuse both at once, use StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new instead of a blind ssh-keyscan append, and pass gh_token/project_root/repo_url/repo_ref to the remote bash via printf %q so a quote in a value cannot break out of the command.
- per-workspace-env envelope: the step-10 workspace test the user asked for is no longer forbidden by the same paragraph.
- linear guides: name the full verb, ORCA linear list-issues.
- parity guard: a prefix reference such as ORCA linear --help or ORCA emulator --webcam now has its flags checked against every command under that prefix; only an exact path or an explicit ... was checked before.
* skills: tighten prose in the seven rewritten guides
Shorter outcome spines, one idea per sentence, no restated rationale after a rule. No rule, command, or pinned phrase changes; 47 net lines fewer across the guides and references.
* skills: route orca-cli and per-workspace-env gates through --reference
Both guides told agents to load --full at a gate because the per-reference
selector did not exist when they were written. Now that main serves
`skills get <topic> --reference references/<file>.md`, load only the
named file and keep --full as the fallback for an older CLI, matching the
orchestration kernel.
* skills: drop outcome-spine boilerplate from the CLI-wrapper guides
The Result/Done/Safe-failure preambles and Next Action closers restated
rules the body already carries. Agents stop fine without them, and for
a CLI wrapper the command surface is the guide. Keeps the one substantive
rule computer-use's Done block added (never report unverified as success)
inside Action Rules. orchestration and per-workspace-env keep theirs:
those are multi-step workflows where the done bar is load-bearing.
(cherry picked from commit 44a74baf73)
* skills: trim the guides and stubs to what agents actually need
- Drop the Result/Done/Safe-failure preambles and Next Action closers from
the six CLI-wrapper guides; the one substantive rule (never report an
unverified computer-use action as success) moves into Action Rules.
- Drop the 'guide may be stale, trust --help' lines: the guide is served by
the binary that runs the commands, so it cannot be stale relative to it.
- Drop the status --json / open --json preflight from every guide; the stub
no-guessing paragraph now says to start Orca only when a command reports
it is not running.
- Cut the ORCA placeholder paragraph in each guide to one line that points
back at the stub's resolution.
- Trim the orchestration, orca-cli, and computer-use descriptions to trigger
phrases plus one line of scope.
- Remove the older-binary fallback section from every stub (and its two
shared blocks); a binary without skills get gets one sentence.
- Remove the guide size ratchet test.
* skills: apply independent review cleanup
* skills: clarify guide loading and Linear command discovery
* skills: harden environment recipe examples
* test: complete branch rename journal doubles
* skills: clarify custom Codex launch and refresh model example
* test: deduplicate journal fix now present on main
* feat(skills): ship orca-cli as a first-generation hybrid stub
Convert the installable orca-cli SKILL.md from a full fat guide into a
hybrid discovery stub: a safe CLI resolver, an `orca skills get orca-cli`
pointer, and a bounded read-only fallback for pre-guide binaries. The
version-matched command reference now lives only in the Orca binary
(embedded guide table, served by `orca skills get`), so the distributed
file can no longer drift from the binary that runs the commands.
- generator projects STUB_TOPICS from skill-stubs/<name>.md, reusing the
guide's own frontmatter so the routing/description surface is unchanged;
the embedded full guide (bundled-skill-guides.ts) is untouched.
- manifest regenerated: orca-cli releaseRevision 32->33 as an append-only
snapshot; existing fat installs classify `outdated` and get the targeted
`npx skills update` nudge (no in-app writes).
- tests: command-guidance assertions repointed to the guide source (their
home now), plus stub-projection + safety coverage.
Only orca-cli converts; the other skills stay fat. Per
notes/skill-freshness-design.md, the E.3 pointer-compliance spike and the
E.5 RC window remain before any further thinning. allowed-tools is
intentionally not added yet (frontmatter kept byte-identical to the guide).
* fix(skills): distinguish guide lookup failures
* chore(skills): refresh released skill mapping
* Add version-matched bundled skill guides
* Clarify skill freshness rollout PRs
* Add canonical skills show alias
* fix(skills): address guide review feedback
* fix(skills): make guide commands cross-platform
* fix(skills): apply the ORCA convention to the emulator guides
Review follow-up: the emulator guides still instructed literal
`orca emulator ...` in sh fences with no Linux disambiguation, so on
unmanaged Linux they could launch the GNOME screen reader — the exact
failure the executable-selection preamble prevents. Both emulator
guides now carry the preamble and ORCA placeholder across fences,
tables, and prose, and the cross-platform safety test covers all four
converted guides. Also replaces computer-use's "unless a block names a
shell" carve-out, which contradicted its own POSIX example, with the
unconditional placeholder rule.
On Linux the CLI installs as orca-ide so it never shadows /usr/bin/orca
(GNOME's screen reader), but agent-facing surfaces (orca-cli skill,
dispatch preambles, CLI hints) all invoke bare `orca` — so on stock
Ubuntu an agent inside an Orca terminal launched the screen reader,
which started speaking (#7904).
Fix: prepend a userData-scoped shim dir (bare `orca` -> bundled
orca-ide launcher, or the stable AppImage) to the PATH of every
packaged-Linux managed PTY, mirroring the existing dev-mode cli/bin
prepend. The user's own shells — and their real screen reader command —
stay untouched. Also flip the orca-cli skill probe to prefer orca-ide
so agents outside Orca terminals never execute the screen reader.
Fixes#7904
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(runtime): explain full worktree id selectors (#7432)
* Fix full worktree id selectors for bare repo ids and doc guidance
- Reject bare repo-id selectors up front via a shared validator instead
of relying on worktree-list scanning, so RPC callers no longer trigger
an unnecessary rescan just to detect the mistake
- Propagate the structured worktree_id_requires_full_path code through
RPC error mapping so callers get a typed error, not just a message
- Update orca-cli, orca-emulator, and orchestration skill docs to show
the full `<repo-id>::<path>` id shape and stop implying a bare repo
id is a valid worktree selector
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Co-authored-by: Jinjing <6427696+AmethystLiang@users.noreply.github.com>
* skills: prefer agent-first worktree launch; avoid empty shell tabs
Document Orca's first-terminal behavior so agents do not leave dead
shell tabs: --agent runs in the first terminal (one tab), bare
worktree create + terminal create leaves shell + agent (two tabs).
Also: re-resolve live handles via terminal list after create, message
one handle only, and prefer orchestration check --inject over terminal
send for pure orchestration pings. Aligns with CLI docs
(--agent launches the selected agent in the first terminal).
* fix skill guidance for agent-first worktrees
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Co-authored-by: Jinjing <6427696+AmethystLiang@users.noreply.github.com>
- Explain that `--no-parent` only controls Orca lineage, not the Git
base branch, and detail how to target independent top-level work.
- Define full handoffs as ownership transfer and forbid the use of
orchestration dispatch injection for them.
- Update CLI help text for `orca worktree create` to reflect the
lineage and base-branch guidance.
- Add tests to verify that these guidance patterns exist in the skill
markdown files.
- Document and update the CLI help, specs, and tests to explicitly guide
users toward `orca terminal create --worktree active --command <agent>`
to launch a fresh agent session in the current checkout.
- Update orchestration and orca-cli skills to prefer active-worktree
terminals when dependent on uncommitted files or active branch state,
distinguishing them from separate worktree creation.
Adds an RPM Linux package target and renames the Linux CLI command to orca-ide to avoid shadowing GNOME Orca, while preserving macOS and Windows CLI command behavior.\n\nFollow-up hardening keeps the Linux launcher executable, removes only old Orca-managed Linux/WSL orca launchers during migration, preserves AppImage/deb artifact names, and updates package/release tests for the RPM asset.
Sharpens the routing boundary so agents reliably pick the right skill:
orchestration owns agent-to-agent messaging (writes that target another
AI agent's terminal), while orca-cli owns worktrees, browser, and
non-agent terminal I/O — including reads and waits on agent terminals.
Validated against adversarial routing tests.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(skills): remove broken doc references in orca-cli SKILL.md
Three files listed under ## References do not exist in the repository:
docs/orca-cli-focused-v1-status.md, docs/orca-cli-v1-spec.md, and
docs/orca-runtime-layer-design.md. Agents following the skill would hit
dead links when trying to resolve ambiguous CLI behavior. Replace the
stale list with a general pointer to the docs/ directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: remove stale Orca CLI doc index
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Co-authored-by: claude[bot] <claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Add guidance for coding agents to keep worktree comments updated at meaningful
checkpoints, making work-in-progress status visible in the Orca UI without
explicit user requests.
Jinwoo Hong
Jinjing
Brennan Benson
NeilandOrca
Rod BoevandJinjing
ryushioneandJinjing
WolfieandWolfgang Schoenberger
Emad Fussi
