A deadlocked main thread never crashes, so it leaves no crash report and no
artifact — incidence has been unmeasurable (n=1 confirmed, macOS 26.5.1,
FB24004458 / electron#52437). This forks a plain-Node watchdog sibling under
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE that survives the deadlock, listens for a 2s heartbeat,
and after 45s of silence writes a marker to userData. The next launch consumes
it, records a durable crash breadcrumb, and emits a main_thread_hang_detected
telemetry event carrying unresponsive_ms and self_recovered.
Observes only — it never kills or relaunches the parent. A true positive
recovers nothing force-quitting wouldn't, while a false positive would SIGKILL
a live main thread mid-write. self_recovered counts exactly the stalls such a
killer would have gotten wrong, so recovery can be built on evidence if the
field numbers justify it.
macOS-only, packaged-only (ORCA_HANG_WATCHDOG_FORCE=1 to test), with sleep-gap
suppression and idempotent shutdown on will-quit.
* fix(release): stop packaging plugin authoring examples into app.asar
electron-builder's `files` is an all-negation list, so its default `**/*`
packs anything without an explicit `!` entry. examples/ arrived with the
plugin system in #8549 and never got one, so 1.4.160-rc.3 shipped
examples/plugins/hostile-panel/panel.html — the adversarial fixture the
panel containment tests point at, complete with its fetch-exfiltration
probe — plus hello-orca, inside every user's app.asar. Verified against the
installed 1.4.160-rc.3 artifact, not just the config.
The two orchestration design docs landed at the repo root in the same span
and shipped the same way; fold them into the existing root-doc negation.
Neither has a runtime consumer: bundled plugins ship via extraResources
from resources/plugins/launch/, which is already excluded from the asar
for exactly this reason.
* test(release): assert the examples exclusion through the real file matcher
The added case mapped each negation to a bare top-level token, so it passed
under '!examples/README.md' — a pattern that still ships the whole tree. Drive
app-builder-lib's FileMatcher instead so the assertion matches the test name,
and pin the root anchoring so the negation cannot grow into '!**/examples'.
* feat(updater): switch to validated local mac builds
* test(updater): cover local build recovery actions
* fix(types): keep local build contract in project sources
* feat(plugins): Orca plugin system — kernel, content packs, panels, workers, marketplace v0 (experimental)
Adds Orca's experimental plugin system behind a settings flag: a
supervised kernel, declarative content packs (VM recipes, commands and
keybindings, language packs), sandboxed iframe panels, forked worker
hosts, and a Git-backed marketplace v0 with consent, provenance and
kill-list enforcement.
Theme, icon-theme and terminal-theme contributions are deferred to a
follow-up pass.
* fix(plugins): make unsupported marketplace listings unreachable by key
findPlugin() backs preview/install/previewInstalledUpdate via
requireListing(), so filtering only listPlugins() hid the catalog card
while leaving the dead install path reachable one click later.
* fix(plugins): fan Pi session-only status out to plugin subscribers
The providerSessionOnly early-return in applyNormalizedStatus emitted to
onAgentStatus (main-window fanout) but skipped enrichedStatusListeners, so
plugins subscribed to agent.status.changed silently missed every Pi
session_start event. Route both emit sites through one helper so a future
early return cannot drop the plugin tap again.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* plugins: drop dead code and hoist duplicated trust-boundary patterns
Cleanup pass over the P1 diff, no behavior change:
- Delete `readPluginTreeSnapshot`/`readSnapshotFile` and their types, plus
the now-vestigial `directories`/`signal` plumbing in `collectFiles`.
- Delete `resolveContainedPluginDirectory` (no callers).
- Delete `plugin-content-load-pool.ts`; it reimplemented the existing
`mapWithConcurrency`, whose index arg also removes the pairing wrapper
in `buildPluginList`.
- Hoist `PLUGIN_CONTENT_HASH_PATTERN` and `PLUGIN_COMMIT_PATTERN` into
the install-lockfile module; 11 sites hand-rolled these identically.
- Point the new reliability gate at the PR instead of gitignored docs
paths, matching every other gate's link form.
* fix(plugins): retry plugin state renames on Windows AV/EPERM locks
Six plugin write paths (lockfile, provenance, current pointer, kill
list, marketplace cache, staged install dir) did a plain rename, so an
antivirus or indexer holding the target open surfaced as a failed
install. The repo already retries this hazard for issue #1507, but only
through a sync helper; these paths are all async.
Adds one bounded async retry + atomic write used by all six, and trims a
consent-provenance header that restated its own JSX.
* test(plugins): cover the Windows rename retry path
The retry loop shipped untested: both existing cases hit the non-retry path,
and the temp-cleanup test passed identically with the `finally` removed.
Mock `rename` to queue errno codes so CI can exercise locks it cannot provoke.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(plugins): pin bundled plugin resources to LF
Windows CI checks out with autocrlf, so the byte-hashed launch tree arrived
as CRLF and verify-packaged-plugin-resources rejected it — the packaged build
could never pass on Windows. Reproduced locally: CRLF yields the exact CI
error, LF verifies clean. Files are already LF, so nothing renormalizes.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* test: guard the bundled-plugin LF pin against a CRLF checkout
The byte-hash mismatch only surfaced in Windows packaging CI. Assert the
.gitattributes pin and that a CRLF tree is rejected, so a regression fails
on any platform instead of waiting for a packaged Windows build.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* ci: trigger packaged-build check on bundled plugin resource changes
The launch tree is byte-hashed during packaging, but no trigger path covered
it — so the CRLF fix for that check would not have re-run the check. Add the
resources, verifier and .gitattributes paths that can break packaging.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* perf(plugins): rebuild the panel frame only when its baked theme values change
The revision keys the panel iframe, so every bump destroys the sandboxed
frame and its in-panel state. It counted root attribute mutations, but
--workspace-sidebar-live-width is written every rAF of a sidebar drag, so
dragging with a panel open blanked it ~60x/sec. Compare the two values the
shell actually bakes in instead.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* test: stop pinning a plugin name in the CRLF guard
The CRLF case rewrites every launch file, so the reported mismatch is
whichever plugin sorts first. P2 adds theme plugins that sort ahead of
orca-navigation-shortcuts, which broke the assertion there.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* style: drop stray blank lines left by the rebase resolutions
Both sides of the agent-hooks and orca-runtime conflicts contributed a
trailing blank, which oxfmt rejects. Whitespace only.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* test(plugins): stop the startup budget failing on machine load
P95 runs 16-34ms idle but exceeds the 50ms bound under full-suite
parallelism, so the gate flaked. Widen it to catch an order-of-magnitude
regression instead; the no-worker/no-plugin-code assertions are the real
guarantee. Verified a 400ms regression still fails.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
The Windows CLI shim is delivered via extraResources to
resources/bin/orca.cmd, beside the native resources/bin/orca.exe, and
resolves the launcher adjacent to itself (%SCRIPT_DIR%orca.exe) — which
works.
But nothing in `files` excluded resources/win32/, so its source copy was
also packed into app.asar and then extracted by asarUnpack:['resources/**']
to app.asar.unpacked/resources/win32/bin/orca.cmd. That duplicate has no
adjacent orca.exe, so invoking it fails with "Unable to locate the native
Orca CLI launcher", breaking orchestration skills that reach for the
unpacked shim.
Exclude the win32 shim source tree from app.asar so only the working
extraResources copy ships. Add a regression guard to the electron-builder
config test.
Closes#7351
* Add safe skill freshness detection
* Accept observed copy-mode rail outcomes
* chore(skills): regenerate snapshot artifacts for the merged guide content
The rebase onto main picked up the reviewed guide fixes (#8624), so the
current manifest hashes and a new appended snapshot generation must
match those bytes; the registry keeps all prior snapshots so existing
installs classify as outdated rather than unrecognized.
* fix(skills): canonicalize snapshot file order and guard released history
Historical snapshots kept git ls-tree byte-order while the working-tree
walk and runtime observation use the sorted depth-first order, so any
future multi-file skill would misclassify older installs as unrecognized
and churn spurious registry revisions; all producers now share one
canonical order (no digest changes for today's single-file packages).
Also rejects executable files from shipped skills (Windows observation
cannot see execute bits, which would misclassify pristine Windows
installs) and adds an explicit append-only invariant for released
snapshots so a generation-logic change cannot rewrite them silently.
* fix(skills): throttle focus rescans and correct self-blocked placement copy
Every window focus re-read and re-hashed all installed packages, and the
nudge and panel each forced their own trailing rescan for one event; a
15s cooldown plus a shared invalidation latch keep one bounded scan per
event while install-change events stay immediate. Bundle artifacts are
now loaded once per run instead of re-parsed on every scan. A read-only
or otherwise unsupported outdated placement now explains that it blocks
itself instead of blaming a phantom sibling placement; the supported
topology set moved to shared so eligibility and copy cannot drift.
* feat(skills): move freshness surfacing to a lingering toast and update modal
The Skills page has been unreachable since its toolbox menu entry was
removed (#4535), so surfacing freshness there buried the feature behind
its own nudge. The nudge now lingers until acted on (ignoring it records
nothing; only the explicit close persists dismissal keys) and opens an
update modal hosting the pre-filled editable terminal, an honest
current/blocked summary, and the per-placement rows in a collapsed
Details section. A compact 'Check for skill updates' row in CLI settings
is the manual re-entry point. Skills page restored to main; design-doc
surfacing section records the venue decision.
* fix(skills): mount update dialog inside the link-routing provider and fold freshness into the setup rails
The dialog hosts a live terminal pane that requires the link-routing
preference context; mounted outside the provider it crashed the renderer
the moment an eligible update existed (caught by live QA — unit tests
mock the terminal). It now mounts inside the provider behind its own
recoverable boundary.
The separate 'Check for skill updates' settings button is gone: the
setup rails' own pill now carries freshness (Update available / Up to
date, falling back to Installed for blocked or unrecognized copies and
for non-local runtimes the local-only scan cannot vouch for), and
Re-check refreshes both installation detection and the freshness
inventory. Wired for the CLI, Orchestration, Computer Use, and
Per-Workspace Environments rails.
* fix(skills): use the sleek scrollbar style in the update dialog
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for merged main (v1.4.142-rc.1)
Main advanced to 1.4.142-rc.1 with a v1.4.141 release, so the embedded
appVersion and release mapping were stale on the PR's merged tree. Only
appVersion and the new release entry change; no snapshot digests move
(released history preserved).
* fix(skills): bound and batch freshness work
* fix(skills): harden freshness integrity checks
* fix(skills): accept observed copy topology outcomes
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): preserve update terminal lifecycle
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): fail closed on stale freshness scans
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): preserve freshness safety under focus churn
* feat(skills): group the update modal by skill with plain-language status
The Update skills modal now lists only skills that will update or that can't
(with why), grouped by skill with their install locations nested underneath —
no more one row per placement.
- Statuses collapse to "Update available" / "Can't update" at the skill level.
- A location's problem is a chip (Duplicate, Unrecognized, Inaccessible, Read
only, In a repo, External/Broken link, Plugin cache) with a hover tooltip
that explains what it means for the user and what to do.
- Up-to-date, unrecognized-only, and unreadable-only skills are hidden; a
current/unrecognized/etc. location only appears when it explains a shown skill.
- Copy is de-jargoned (drops "copy"/"placement"/"snapshot"/"official copy") and
names the mechanism as the npx skills update command, not "Orca's update".
- Rename the section to "Update details"; drop the unreachable newer-known state.
Renderer-only: derivation is a pure module (groupSkillFreshness) with unit tests;
no IPC or main-process change. Locales updated for all five languages.
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main (v1.4.143-rc.0)
* feat(skills): don't let a duplicate block the update; clearer skipped copy
- Eligibility: a clean standalone duplicate no longer poisons the whole
name — the canonical copy still updates and the duplicate is flagged;
a duplicate-only skill stays unoffered.
- Update modal: "Can't update" -> "Skipped" with a reason-specific
sentence (edited/read-only/in-a-repo/plugin/link); chips describe only
the location state; footer "Check now" -> "Re-check".
- Settings sidebar nav pills go amber "Update available" when a skill is
updatable, matching the setup cards.
- Localized new strings across en/es/ja/ko/zh.
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for merged main (v1.4.144-rc.1)
The three pr-evidence/*.png files were accidentally committed with the
sidebar fix (#8527). They are e2e evidence outputs regenerated on demand
by worktree-lineage-agent-expansion.spec.ts only under
ORCA_CAPTURE_EVIDENCE=1, and nothing reads them — contradicting the
.gitignore intent that PR evidence screenshots not be committed.
- Remove the tracked PNGs (unreferenced generated artifacts).
- Ignore pr-evidence/ alongside notes/artifacts/.
- Defensively exclude pr-evidence/ from the electron-builder app.asar
include surface so a stray local capture never bloats the bundle.
- Assert the new exclusion in electron-builder-config.test.mjs.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* 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.
* Harden layout validation, watcher lifecycle, and connection robustness
- Throw instead of silently skipping when the packaged daemon-entry is
missing, preventing layout regressions from passing build checks.
- Terminate idle parcel-watcher processes to reclaim native handles and
avoid crash-prone native node module teardowns on shutdown.
- Bind the persisted WS fallback port first to prevent orphaning active
mobile pairings when the preferred port becomes free again.
- Cap concurrent disk reads for restored dirty tab verification at three
to prevent startup connection bottlenecks on remote SSH workspaces.
* Queue file IDs instead of snapshots in restored conflict scans
This avoids using stale file snapshots (e.g., outdated disk signatures)
if a tab is saved, closed, or re-baselined while waiting in the queue
behind the concurrency limit. The live state is now fetched from the
store and validated immediately before initiating the disk read.
On macOS 26, UNUserNotificationCenter aborts when executables are run
from Contents/Resources because bundleProxyForCurrentProcess returns
nil.
Moving the orca-notification-status helper to Contents/MacOS next to
the main Electron executable ensures proper bundle resolution and
avoids immediate crashes.
* Revert "Preload the daemon windowsHide shim via --require; wrap promisify custom (#7499)"
This reverts commit 8f396badaf.
* Revert "Hide console windows for children of the node.exe-hosted daemon (#7486)"
This reverts commit f0fdd3a716.
* Revert "fix(daemon): relocate daemon host image out of the install-dir kill zone (#7473)"
This reverts commit f4faafa987.
* Revert "fix(pty): keep runtime dirs a surviving daemon still uses (#7463)"
This reverts commit 3cd23a13a1.
* Revert "Relocate node-pty ConPTY runtime outside the Windows install dir (fixes update-time terminal loss) (#7421)"
This reverts commit 509c41e2bf.
Fix packaged runtime inclusion for @parcel/watcher and its platform native subpackages. Adds pruning/tests for packaged resources and a real watcher integration regression test.
Exclude repo-only package inputs and move renderer/build-only dependencies out of production dependencies to reduce packaged app.asar size while keeping source maps allowed for crash diagnostics.
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.
Brennan Benson
Neil
Mark Xian
JinjingandOrca
Jinwoo Hong
mehmet turac
Lesley Murfin
Emad Fussi