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Brennan Benson 6e7e964705 feat(orchestration): tell each agent its own orchestration address (#22636)
* feat(orchestration): report the caller's host-resolved orchestration address in orca status

orca status --json gains a caller block: the calling agent's address as the
host resolved it from the identity its environment carries. A structured
session is session:<id>; a terminal agent is its handle, with whether the host
still knows it. A session the host refuses reports that refusal instead.

The host answers through a new read-only orchestration.callerShow, so the
session claim runs through the same dispatch-entry resolver every verb uses.
An older host leaves caller unresolved. The help footer and the run/check
specs stop describing identity only in terminal terms.

* docs(orchestration): tell agents their address and give chat coordinators a non-waiting loop

The orchestration guide now states that a chat session's address is
session:<id> (never the provider's id), that orca status --json reports it,
and that no caller flag should name another agent. A consuming check no
longer tells every caller to name itself with --terminal. A chat coordinator
starts its wave, ends the turn, and on each turn Orca starts for new mail
runs a non-waiting check and ack; it never blocks in check --wait. The guide
also names ORCA_CLI_COMMAND as the executable in chat sessions.

* feat(native-chat): add Copy Orchestration Address to a structured chat's context menu

Copies session:<id>, the Orca-minted address other agents message the chat
by. The existing Copy Session ID still copies the provider's id and is left
as is; the new action is labelled so the two cannot be confused. Strings are
added to every locale catalog.

* feat(orchestration): tell every dispatched worker its own orchestration address

The worker preamble names the coordinator's address rather than a terminal
handle, and states the worker's own address. A structured worker is told it
is session:<id>, that its coordinator reaches it there or at its dispatch
mailbox, and that mail arriving while it is idle starts a new turn. Its
commands invoke the CLI through ORCA_CLI_COMMAND in its own shell's form, the
same rendering the pointer turn uses, because a bare orca in a login shell can
reach a different Orca.

* docs(orchestration): give the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND form for POSIX shells and PowerShell

A chat session's shell reads the variable as "$ORCA_CLI_COMMAND" in a POSIX
shell (Git Bash included) and as & $env:ORCA_CLI_COMMAND in PowerShell, the
same two forms the pointer turn and worker preamble render. The chat
coordinator loop now runs the check its pointer turn names.

* docs(orchestration): say that /clear gives a chat a new address and Orca moves its Runs

* fix(orchestration): keep CLI resolution in the shared skill stub and the orchestration kernel in budget

The guide-contract tests own two rules this PR broke: only the shared skill
stub may describe how to resolve the CLI, and the always-loaded orchestration
kernel stays within 202 lines. The ORCA_CLI_COMMAND text moves to the stub's
resolver block, which now covers chat sessions and login shells beside WSL and
gives the POSIX and PowerShell forms; every skill projection and the bundle
manifest are regenerated. The kernel keeps one line each for the caller's
address, the environment-resolved check caller and the chat coordinator's
non-waiting loop; the loop steps and the address details move to the
coordinator-loop and messaging references. The two kernel pins now assert the
new check contract and refuse the old --terminal <your_handle> shape.

* fix(orchestration): refuse a blocking check --wait from a native chat session

A chat runs turn by turn through a shell tool with its own timeout, so a
blocking wait is killed mid-wait and retried. The host now refuses it with
wait_requires_terminal and the turn-loop recovery, keyed on the session's
lease: a session a terminal view holds still runs in a PTY and may block.

* fix(orchestration): resolve orca status's caller with the verbs' ladder, host-side

callerShow now answers a terminal caller the way the coordinator verbs act:
the carried handle while it is live, else the handle its pane was reminted
as. The CLI always asks, so the host decides that a process has no identity
from the same envelope every verb sends; a pane key alone now resolves.

* fix(orchestration): show a structured worker as session:<id> wherever agents read mail

A structured worker was session:<id> in orca status and its preamble, but
structworker_<uuid> in check rows, banners, reply hints, its own check label
and a sub-worker's coordinator line. The minted handle is now only the
mailbox key: mailbox reads, the check label and preamble coordinator lines
spell the worker session:<id>, which the host binds back to that mailbox.
Send receipts still echo the stored row, whose sender key worker_done
settlement matches.

* fix(orchestration): teach a chat worker the turn loop and pin preamble parity at the contract

The worker preamble was byte-identical across modes except its address, so a
chat worker was taught a 600s blocking ask its shell tool kills before the
message ID for --resume prints, heartbeat exemptions for check --wait, and to
keep a shell open. Parity now pins the contract (sections, verbs, flags,
lifecycle ids); interaction discipline follows the mode: a chat asks with a
5s wait and ends its turn, owns sub-workers through the turn loop, and names
itself session:<id> in every command. The guide says a chat's address
survives /clear and that Orca refuses a chat's check --wait.

* test(orchestration): pass the db to preamble delivery and fence a terminal-view waiter

The coordinator line maps a structured coordinator's handle through the
orchestration db, so delivery takes it from its caller. The consumer-fencing
waiter test now waits as a terminal-view session, the only session kind that
may still block in check --wait.

* test(orchestration): read the Run id with the fixture's checked accessor

* feat(orchestration): copy a chat's conversation address, which /clear keeps

Copy Orchestration Address copied session:<live id>. A chat's address is its
conversation's, derived by the host from the session records, so the menu now
asks the host for it at copy time through orchestration.sessionAddress, the
same derivation a verb acting as that session binds to. A host that predates
the method has no /clear lineage, so there the live id is the address. The
guide's /clear text says the address survives and nothing moves.

* test(orchestration): pin that a cleared chat's successor copies its conversation's root address

* test(orchestration): give the mode-opacity fixture's record store the listing a lineage lookup reads

A structured worker's agent-visible address now resolves through its conversation's lineage,
which lists the session records; the fixture's partial store lacked that listing, so the
sub-worker start failed at dispatch input.

* refactor(orchestration): format a chat's copied and reported address from its root Orca session id

Carries the Orca session id rename into the self-address surfaces.
orchestration.sessionAddress, the copy action's fallback, callerShow and the address a
structured worker is shown now format `session:<id>` from the conversation's bare
root Orca session id with formatOrcaSessionAddress, and ids arriving as strings are
checked with isOrcaSessionId first. The CLI status line, the check caller label and
the dispatch preamble spell the prefix from the one exported constant.

* refactor(orchestration): resolve a session's reported address through the party resolver, and refuse every session's check --wait

- orchestration.sessionAddress, and the agent-visible spelling of a structured
  worker, resolve through the party resolver, so they format the lineage root
  the one id hook derives; sessionAddress.sessionId is classified as a target.
- With the terminal handoff gone every structured session runs turn by turn, so
  check --wait is refused for any session caller, a worker included, and the
  session caller no longer carries its lease's runtime kind.
- The coordinator loop no longer mentions a terminal view, and the messaging
  reference says a chat takes messages but is refused as a Dispatch assignee.

* fix(orchestration): cap a session caller's blocking wait below its shell tool instead of refusing it

A chat or structured worker runs each command under its provider's shell-tool timeout, so check
--wait was refused for every session caller and chats were taught a separate loop. The host now
caps check --wait and ask for a session caller below that timeout (Codex 10s one-shot exec
default, Claude Code Bash 120s) and answers the normal timed-out result, so the terminal
coordinator loop runs unchanged in a chat. A terminal caller's wait is untouched.

* refactor(orchestration): teach a chat worker the terminal worker's preamble, byte for byte but the address

One preamble for both modes: the chat variant (short ask, end your turn, this chat stays
available, ORCA_CLI_COMMAND invocation) is deleted. A structured worker's only difference is its
address, session:<id>; the byte-parity test between modes is restored with just that substituted.

* docs(orchestration): drop every chat-specific instruction; name the address once, generically

The guide, its references, the shared CLI-resolution stub and the help return to main's text,
with one kernel line saying `orca status --json` shows your address (the kernel stays at main's
length). The status caller block reports only the opaque address, the same shape for a chat and
a terminal agent. Guides regenerated.

* test(orchestration): pin that a chat and a terminal agent see the same preamble, pointer and guide

* test(orchestration): key the wait-cap fixture's records by plain session id strings

* chore(i18n): add the copy-address strings at the head of native-chat, clear of main's catalog edits

* test(orchestration): fail the capped-wait test on the settle, not on the test timeout

* test(orchestration): keep main's takeover assertions on a session coordinator's waiting check

With the session wait capped rather than refused, the test main extended runs as it is: the restack re-added the shorter pre-main version over it.

* fix(orchestration): show a /clear-ed chat its lineage root's address everywhere it reads its own

check labelled a session caller with session:<live id>, while orca status and the
preamble show the conversation's root. The CLI cannot read the lineage, so the label
now comes from the same host answer orca status prints (orchestration.callerShow),
asked only when there are messages to render, and falling back to the live id only
when the host cannot say. The host also spells a session address it shows an agent
with the lineage root: a dispatch preview filled in from the chat's own address, and
the provider-id refusal that names a session's address.

* test(orchestration): the parity test's gate facts resolve like the host's

* test(orchestration): the parity test's gate facts carry the submissions main's pointer lane reads

* fix(orchestration): wait a chat's check --wait and ask exactly as long as a terminal's

The host capped a session caller's blocking wait (Codex 6s, Claude 100s) so the
provider's shell tool would not kill it. Neither provider kills a long shell
call: default Codex's exec tool yields and keeps the command running, and Claude
Code moves a timed-out Bash call to the background. Terminal agents run the same
tools uncapped, so the cap only made a chat coordinator re-poll every few
seconds. A session caller's check --wait and ask now wait the budget asked for.

* fix(orchestration): show every agent one address, the mailbox address its mail is keyed by

A structured worker was told `session:<id>` in orca status and its preamble,
but its own send receipts, inbox, worker-list, dispatch previews and task rows
still showed the `structworker_` handle its mail is stored under; only some
reads were re-spelled. Instead of re-spelling reads, callerShow,
sessionAddress and the preamble now report the caller's stored mailbox
address (mailboxAddressOf): a terminal's handle, a structured worker's handle,
and a chat's `session:<lineage root>`. The read-side re-spelling layer
(withAgentVisibleAddresses and its check/banner/preamble call sites) is gone.

Dispatch previews spell the coordinator by its party's mailbox address, so a
`/clear`ed chat's dispatch-show still names its root.

* refactor(orchestration): label check output from what the CLI already knows

check asked the host for orchestration.callerShow after every non-empty check
by a session, only to fill a label used when a legacy row lacks to_handle,
which host rows never do. The label is again the caller's handle or its
injected mailbox address, with no second round trip after mail is consumed.

* refactor(native-chat): offer Copy Orchestration Address on chat tabs only

No mount passes both terminal-pane actions and an orchestration address: a
chat shown inside a terminal pane is that terminal's agent, copied by its
terminal ID. Drop the unreachable terminal-pane placement and its tests.

* fix(orchestration): have orca status report the handle the agent's own check reads

After a window reload a terminal agent keeps ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE=term_old while
its pane is reminted as term_new. callerShow reminted and advertised term_new,
but check, send and ask act as the carried handle and never remint, so mail
sent to the advertised address was never read by that agent. callerShow now
answers the carried handle with its liveness, and null for a pane key alone,
from which the mailbox verbs have no identity. Resolving terminal callers once
on the host for every verb is a separate follow-up.

* fix(orchestration): read the renamed coordinator line in the long-prompt repro, and trim round-one leftovers

The reliability repro's fake worker parsed "Your coordinator's terminal handle
is:", which the preamble now spells "Your coordinator's address is:", so it
silently skipped worker_done; it accepts both. Dispatch and its dry-run go back
to main's coordinator line (their `from` is already bound at the entry); only
dispatch-show, whose `from` is unbound, resolves it. Also drops a stale
status-caller comment, trims the wait test to its one uncapped-wait case, and
reverts comment-only churn in the worker opacity test.

* docs(orchestration): keep worker obligation 1 as main words it

The guide grows by the one caller.address line; the parity test bounds the
kernel at main's length plus that line instead of forcing a reword.

* test(native-chat): prove a structured chat tab offers Copy Orchestration Address

Renders the pane-commands hook as a structured chat tab and selects the item:
it asks orchestration.sessionAddress with the tab's target and session id.
Also corrects the menu item's comment to what it copies.

* test(orchestration): D5's tests expect the orca_session_id prefix and 'Orca session ID' wording

* fix(orchestration): name a session by its Orca session ID, and leave terminal agents as main has them

Terminal agents keep main's exact wording: a terminal worker's preamble is
byte-identical to main's, and orca status prints nothing new for them. A
session is named by its Orca session ID (orca_session_id:<id>, its /clear
root's): a structured worker's preamble says "Your Orca session ID is: …"
and its commands use that ID, and a session coordinator is "Your
coordinator's Orca session ID is: …". orca status shows a session caller's
`caller.orcaSessionId`; callerShow answers null for anyone else. The chat
tab menu item becomes "Copy Orca Session ID" with a tooltip saying what the
ID is, and its toasts match. No agent-read text calls this ID an address.
A structured worker's mail is still keyed by its minted handle.

* test(orchestration): check CLI help and status for "address" wording from a CLI test

The node project cannot compile src/cli, so the guard over CLI help, specs
and status text moves to src/cli; both halves share one pattern. Also brings
two comments and the long-prompt repro's coordinator-line regex to the Orca
session ID wording.

* fix(native-chat): keep the Orca session ID tooltip within the tooltip primitive's typography

Drops a restyle the design-system gate refuses on TooltipContent, keeps
"Agent" untranslated in the Japanese tooltip as that catalog does, and types
the test's tooltip mock without an assertion.

* fix(native-chat): the Orca session ID tooltip names the agent CLI's own session ID in the singular
2026-10-01 17:29:04 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3047353017 fix(orchestration): worker-abandon settles a stuck worker and records who did it (#23983)
* fix(orchestration): worker-abandon settles a stuck worker and records who abandoned it

worker-abandon refused or no-oped in the states it exists to escape: a stop
stranded by a dead runtime, an active attempt that was no longer the Task's
latest, and settled workers whose terminal release was stuck at requested or
unknown. It now settles every non-terminal worker except this runtime's own
in-flight stop, records who abandoned it, and retains (never closes) an owned
terminal whose release is not already in flight.

Part of STA-8833.

* refactor(orchestration): abandon retains through worker-retain's rule; record cancellations

- One retain helper serves worker-retain and worker-abandon. A committed release (releasing, unknown) keeps its state and archive, since the tab may already be closed; a retained terminal drops its stale archive.
- worker-abandon keeps the published stale field (this attempt was not the Task's current one) on the worker path.
- task-list shows a failed Task's reason, whitespace-collapsed; task-update help and the recovery guide document cancel = failed + --result cancelled.

* test(orchestration): drop duplicate abandon asserts; leave task-list output unchanged

Cancellation stays documented in task-update help and the recovery guide.

* fix(orchestration): abandoning an already-settled worker changes nothing

Only the settling path retains an owned terminal.

* fix(orchestration): attribute abandon only to a verified caller and keep the prior diagnostic

* fix(orchestration): report an already-settled abandon as stale, as main did
2026-09-30 13:41:34 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 9afd1101ff fix(orchestration): stop minting and printing the dispatch capability (#23994)
* fix(orchestration): authorize worker reports without the dispatch capability

Worker lifecycle reports and questions no longer depend on the per-dispatch
capability token that lives only in the agent's conversation. The host now:

- ignores capability_hash/capability_revoked_at for authorization on every
  row and checks the exact worker process instead (ask gains that check);
- refuses a report whose calling terminal is provably another orchestration
  party (a Run coordinator or another Dispatch's worker), treating env that
  names no live pane here as absent;
- applies one worker-state rule locally and remotely: a stop in flight
  refuses, while stop_unknown and start_unknown accept and settle.

Minting and printing the flag are unchanged, so an older host and older
preambles keep working.

* fix(orchestration): stop minting the dispatch capability

Dispatches no longer mint a per-Dispatch token, and preambles, the bundled
skill guide and the ask resume hint stop printing --dispatch-capability. The
consumer-generation bump and delivery fence that minting carried stay, now
as setDispatchConsumer. Readers that inferred meaning from capability_hash
read what they meant instead: worker-show's injected stage comes from the
attached consumer, and a failed start copies custody identity only when no
authority was ever attached. The CLI keeps accepting and forwarding the
flag for older hosts.

Cancelling a Task is recorded as failed with a reason; task-list now shows
that reason and the guide and task-update notes document the recipe.

* fix(orchestration): name the fenced party without implying which Dispatch it owns

* refactor(orchestration): one worker report rule, fence only a different party

- One module owns the unproven/settleable worker states and the refusal rule; local send records it, ask and remote throw it. A stale process is worker_identity_changed on every path.
- The caller fence passes the worker's own terminal when its --from handle went stale.
- Document the shared-tmux-server limit; drop the dead dispatch_capability_invalid rejection member; tests assert dispatch state, not the capability column.

* refactor(orchestration): drop setDispatchConsumer and the dead capability retention

- dispatch --inject no longer re-points the row createDispatchContext just wrote; worker-show reports every worker-less Dispatch as context_only, since Orca keeps no record of the paste. Tests re-point through a fixture.
- failWorkerStart always records when the lifecycle closed; nothing authorizes on it.
- Restore the ask resume hint's echo of a passed --dispatch-capability: an old host checks it before --resume.
- Move the cancellation convention to #23983.

* test(orchestration): drop capability-era assertions other tests already cover

* refactor(orchestration): drop the host-side capability field and no-op test fixtures

- RpcRequest and the SSH bridge stop carrying orchestrationCapability; the CLI's wire field stays for older hosts.
- Fixtures pass identity to createRootDispatch instead of re-pointing to the same values; drop absence checks for a flag that can no longer be produced.

* test(orchestration): cover a current process whose terminal moved to another pane

* chore(orchestration): finish the capability cleanup in test stubs and skill wording

* test(orchestration): drop needless response casts; mark the db stub cast safe
2026-09-30 13:26:06 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong e03870403e fix(orchestration): accept worker reports without the dispatch capability (#23982)
* fix(orchestration): authorize worker reports without the dispatch capability

Worker lifecycle reports and questions no longer depend on the per-dispatch
capability token that lives only in the agent's conversation. The host now:

- ignores capability_hash/capability_revoked_at for authorization on every
  row and checks the exact worker process instead (ask gains that check);
- refuses a report whose calling terminal is provably another orchestration
  party (a Run coordinator or another Dispatch's worker), treating env that
  names no live pane here as absent;
- applies one worker-state rule locally and remotely: a stop in flight
  refuses, while stop_unknown and start_unknown accept and settle.

Minting and printing the flag are unchanged, so an older host and older
preambles keep working.

* fix(orchestration): name the fenced party without implying which Dispatch it owns

* refactor(orchestration): one worker report rule, fence only a different party

- One module owns the unproven/settleable worker states and the refusal rule; local send records it, ask and remote throw it. A stale process is worker_identity_changed on every path.
- The caller fence passes the worker's own terminal when its --from handle went stale.
- Document the shared-tmux-server limit; drop the dead dispatch_capability_invalid rejection member; tests assert dispatch state, not the capability column.

* test(orchestration): drop capability-era assertions other tests already cover

* test(orchestration): cover a current process whose terminal moved to another pane
2026-09-30 13:01:53 -04:00
Neil 52a1e2875b feat(orchestration): accept Muse model and effort for supervised workers (#22383)
* feat(orchestration): accept Muse model and effort for supervised workers

`worker-start --agent muse` already launched, but `--model` was refused because
Muse had no session-option catalog. Add one that maps worker preferences to
`muse --model <id>` and `--reasoning-effort <level>`; it seeds no models, so
native-chat surfaces show no picker.

opencode stays without `--model`: the opencode 2 TUI (now shipped as
`opencode`) rejects the flag, so the refusal now tells callers to rely on the
agent's own config. Help, skill guide, and docs list valid `--agent` ids and
the agents that accept `--model`.

Refs #19823

* test(mobile): repin session route closure for the Muse option catalog
2026-09-22 22:20:35 -07:00
eb92222e7f feat: support Antigravity as supervised worker (#21705)
* feat: add supervised Antigravity worker support

* fix: address Antigravity worker review findings

* fix: stabilize Antigravity readiness detection

* fix: allow Antigravity resume footer after readiness

* fix(antigravity): make agy reach worker_done as a supervised worker

Three defects each blocked `orchestration worker-start --agent antigravity
--worktree new-child` at the agent_readiness stage.

1. Readiness never fired. The composer check required the trimmed line to be
   exactly one character, but agy 1.2.7 launches in accept-edits mode and paints
   it into the caret row (`> Accept-edits mode: ...`). Widened narrowly to a bare
   `>` or `> <name> mode:`; matching any `> <text>` would make every menu dialog
   read as ready, since they all prefix their highlighted row the same way.

2. No trust artifact for agy. Added markAntigravityWorkspaceTrusted, writing
   ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/settings.json under `trustedWorkspaces` — verified
   empirically against agy 1.2.7, and distinct from the Gemini CLI's
   trustedFolders.json, which agy does not consult. Trust is exact-path and not
   inherited by subdirectories, so each child worktree needs its own entry.

3. The orchestration path skipped the preset. Orca has two trust dispatch
   chains: the renderer's preflightAgentTrust and the main-process
   markLocalWorktreeTrusted. worker-start only takes the second, which matched
   cursor/copilot/codex and fell through for antigravity, so the trust write
   never happened while renderer-side tests passed.

Verified live end to end: the dispatch settles `succeeded` with worker_done
carrying the right task and dispatch ids, and the worktree is appended to agy's
settings with sibling keys untouched.

Known gap: remote-agent-trust-presets.ts has no antigravity branch. The SSH
artifact path is unverified, so agy over SSH still stalls at agent_readiness.
Recorded in a comment there rather than guessed at.

* fix(antigravity): wire trust preset through preload safely

* fix: preserve Antigravity readiness across transcript tails

---------

Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: LielinaH <lielinah@gmail.com>
2026-09-21 20:22:08 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3336933cc8 fix(orchestration): list worker Dispatches newest first and warn when the page truncates (#21523)
* fix(orchestration): list worker Dispatches newest first and warn when the page truncates

`worker-list` paged `ORDER BY d.rowid ASC` with a 100-row cap, so a Run with
more than 100 Dispatches answered with its OLDEST 100. The workers a coordinator
had just started, and the rows carrying `projection.attention.requiresAction`,
were on a page nobody fetched, while `counts` and `page.total` covered the whole
Run so the receipt read as complete.

One ordering, flipped: the detail query and the terminal-state scan it pages by
both order `d.rowid DESC`, and the cursor fence walks down (`d.rowid < anchor`).
The snapshot fence is unchanged — `d.rowid <= snapshot` still means "nothing
created after the first call".

When the page truncates the receipt now carries a `warnings` string, the same
shape `worker-output` already uses, alongside `page.hasMore`. Text output keeps
its `More: --cursor` line and prints the warning through the block it already
had for partial-host errors.

Refs STA-7861

* fix(orchestration): make the worker-list truncation warning true on every page

The warning said "Showing the N newest of T Dispatches" unconditionally, but
`hasMore` is true on every page except the last, so page 2 of a 300-Dispatch Run
claimed to be the newest 100 while showing rows 200..101. This PR exists because
a receipt read as complete when it was not; that warning shipped a receipt that
read as the newest page when it was not.

The page count and the ordering are separate facts, so state them separately:
"Showing N of T Dispatches, newest first; more are on later pages." True on page
one and page N alike, no extra state. The 105-row case only ever reached the
last page, where `hasMore` is false, which is why it missed this; a new case
walks 6 Dispatches at `--limit 2` so a page that is truncated AND not page one
is covered.

Also: the `worker-list` --help note and the recovery-and-cleanup reference still
described the oldest-first contract; both now say newest first. The snapshot
test is renamed to the property it actually proves — under DESC a later insert
is unreachable by arithmetic, so what the `d.rowid <= snapshot` fence still
earns is pinned `page.total` and `counts`, not row exclusion. The continuation
comment says "below the anchor" next to `d.rowid < ?`, and the two SAFETY
rationales now say what they are: an unchanged cast the gate flagged because the
diff moved inside its span.

Refs STA-7861
2026-09-18 17:38:22 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 12d744f253 fix(skills): keep computer-use off filesystem and shell tasks (#21069)
* 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.
2026-09-16 15:43:11 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 3631a1e77f feat(cli): show orca search now the settings toggle ships (#20677)
* feat(cli): orca search over the agent session index

`orca search <query>` calls PR 5's `aiVault.searchSessions` over the CLI's
existing runtime RPC, against the host `--environment` / `--pairing-code`
selects and no other. `orca search --index-status` calls `aiVault.searchStatus`.
It is the proof the contract works with no panel.

Every flag maps onto a contract field and nothing else: `--scope`, `--fresh`,
`--limit`, `--cursor`, repeatable `--agent` and `--path`, `--since`, `--sort`,
`--debug`, `--json`. No fan-out, no merged output, no `--host`.

One command rather than a `search status` subcommand: the query is a bare
positional, so `orca search status` could not be told apart from searching for
the word "status". `--status` is unavailable because `orchestration task-list
--status <state>` already owns the name as a valued flag.

No new runtime capability. PR 5 decided an explicit `method_not_found` refusal
maps to `unavailable/no-service`, so reusing `createSessionSearchClient` gives
an old host a plain "this host runs no session search service" answer at exit 0
instead of a raw JSON-RPC error.

`CommandSpec.repeatableFlags` scopes repeatability per command, because
`--agent` must repeat for search and stay single-valued for `worktree create`.
`help.ts` sat exactly at max-lines, so `skills-command-flag-help.ts` becomes
`command-scoped-flag-help.ts` carrying both tables at the same call-site size.

* refactor(cli): drop the search type assertions main's casting gate now rejects

Main gained a `consistent-type-assertions: never` scan in the changed-code gate
after this branch was cut, and it reported twelve assertions in the new files.

The four in the argument parser were avoidable. `readEnum` now keeps the value
`find` returns, which already carries the narrow type, and the agent filter goes
through an `isAiVaultAgent` predicate over a `Set<string>` instead of widening
the agent tuple.

The test now narrows the printed envelope by shape and re-reads the printed
result through `AiVaultSearchResponseSchema`, so the JSON assertions are checked
rather than claimed, and the flag table is typed so its callback needs no cast.
One assertion is left, for the structural fake client, with the SAFETY rationale
AGENTS.md requires.

* fix(cli): sanitize host strings and scope pre-command repeatable flags

Route every host-supplied string the search formatter prints through the
escape stripper, and resolve the repeatable-flag set from the command
tokens ahead when a flag sits before the command.

* refactor(cli): resolve repeatable flag rules once per command

* fix(cli): clarify session search availability and SSH scope

* feat(cli): hide orca search until the settings toggle ships

`orca search` stays dispatchable but leaves every discovery surface: root
help, group help, unknown-command suggestions, and `agent-context --json`.
`buildAgentContext` did not filter hidden specs, so it also stops leaking
the hidden `terminal stop`.

* feat(cli): show orca search now the settings toggle ships

* docs(skills): teach the orca-cli guide the search command

One section: what orca search covers, one host at a time, scope and
narrowing flags, index status before searching, and that a human turns
search on.

* docs(skills): shape the search section like the other command sections
2026-09-16 12:29:35 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 4b1b7178ad fix(orchestration): scope @ group addresses to the sender's Run (#19783)
* fix(orchestration): scope @ group addresses to the sender's Run

`@all`, `@idle`, and the agent-name groups (`@claude`, `@codex`, ...) resolved
against every terminal on the host. A coordinator meaning "my three reviewers"
reached 126 agents across every open project, twice in one day, and every
unrelated agent burned a turn discarding mail that was never for it.

Every group except `@worktree:<id>` now means the live Dispatches of the
sender's own Run, each addressed as `dispatch:<id>` so delivery is durable
even when the worker terminal is not attached yet. A sender bound to no Run is
refused with `invalid_argument` naming `run:<id>` / `dispatch:<id>`; there is
no host-wide fallback and the host's terminals are never enumerated for it.
`@idle` and the agent-name groups filter within that set by the same terminal
status and host-resolved identity as before. `ask --to @group` returns the
same code and points at the owning Run mailbox.

Federated Dispatches read relayed control mail rather than a local mailbox,
so a Run-scoped fan-out skips them with a `recipient_unreachable` warning
naming the direct `dispatch:<id>` address.

Group addresses are resolved host-side, so no RPC or stream shape changes; an
older CLI sending `@all` to a new host gets the Run-scoped meaning.

Claude-Session: run-scoped-group-addresses

* fix(orchestration): revalidate legacy takeover before the recipient verdict

A legacy coordinator taken over while `listTerminals` was in flight reported
`runtime_error` instead of `legacy_read_only`: Run scoping made "no live
Dispatch in this Run" the first thing the group send could fail on, and that
threw before the takeover check ran. Takeover is a precondition, not a
commit-time detail — the sender must be told it is read-only whatever else is
wrong with its recipient set.

Revalidation moves to immediately after the only `await` in the path.
Everything below it is synchronous, so the commit-time window it used to guard
is unchanged; only the error paths now see it.

The legacy partition test gave `term_current_worker` no Dispatch, so under Run
scoping it is correctly not a recipient. It now holds a real current-contract
Dispatch in the same adopted Run, which is what the test is named for: one
`legacy_direct` and one `current_delivery` recipient in one fan-out.

Claude-Session: run-scoped-group-addresses

* fix(orchestration): address the Run a nested coordinator created, not its parent

A nested coordinator is both a worker of its parent Run and the coordinator of
the Run it created. `resolveMessageRun` answers with the parent, correctly,
because that is where its own `worker_done` belongs — but audience is a
different question. Scoping `@all` to that Run sent a nested coordinator's
"shared context" to the siblings it was started beside instead of the workers
it started, and reported success, so it never learned its sub-workers heard
nothing. Before Run scoping the host-wide fan-out reached the sub-workers by
accident; this turned an over-broad delivery into a wrong-audience one, the
exact failure class the change exists to remove.

Group audience now resolves off the Run the sender coordinates, falling back
to its Dispatch's Run. A leaf worker coordinates nothing and is unaffected.
This is a separate question from `routing.run`, not a second answer to the
same one, so `resolveMessageRun` keeps its meaning for point-to-point mail.

Also: when every live Dispatch in a Run is federated, the fan-out skipped them
all and threw a bare `Error` that discarded the warnings naming those remote
workers and how to address each one. The sender was told "no recipients" while
three remote workers existed. That throw now carries a code and the skip
explanations.

Claude-Session: run-scoped-group-addresses

* docs(orchestration): say that no group address reaches a coordinator

A coordinator is not a Dispatch, so Run-scoped groups never include one. That
follows from the rule, but nothing said it, and the old host-wide meaning did
include the coordinator — a worker sending `@all` to raise a blocker would be
heard by its siblings and by nobody who can act. The guide, the CLI note, and
the docs page now say to use `run:<id>` for that, and that a worker which
created its own Run addresses that Run's workers.

Also restores the `@cursor` case dropped when the group tests moved: a Claude
pane titled "Fix the text cursor blink" must not receive Cursor's mail. That
hazard was recorded from real titles and `@droid` alone did not cover it.

Claude-Session: run-scoped-group-addresses

* fix(orchestration): preserve group audience and mailbox identity

* fix(orchestration): validate group scope before dispatch routing

* fix(orchestration): preserve pane identity and exclude coordinator dispatches
2026-09-10 15:06:03 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 98fdbc4ade fix(orchestration): file federated worker mail under the coordinator Run (#19542) 2026-09-08 04:03:07 -04:00
Jinjing 9fed61e5c2 Persist agents sidebar search visibility as pairing-local preference (#19313)
* Persist agents sidebar search field visibility as pairing-local preferen

- Add `agentsShowSearch` to workspace UI state with default on
- Include in pairing-local fields so preference syncs across clients
- Convert search from menu action to checkbox menu item for explicit toggle
- Update activity thread options menu to reflect checkbox state
- Add localization strings across all supported languages
- Update RPC schemas and preference persistence layer
- Includes readiness validation reports confirming feature is clean

* rm review

* fix documentation
2026-09-07 11:27:40 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong fb322046e8 skills: rewrite and trim the seven non-orchestration guides (#19128)
* 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
2026-09-07 00:03:48 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong b8311d509a Revert "skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard (#18724)" (#19126)
This reverts commit 15d0f8aedf.
2026-09-06 17:01:49 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 15d0f8aedf skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard (#18724)
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## ELI5

Orca ships eight skill guides that agents read before running the CLI. Seven of them (everything except `orchestration`, which #16904 rewrites) were command catalogs that had drifted from the binary. This PR rewrites them so an agent reads the outcome, the done bar, and the safe-failure rule first, loads reference material only at the step that needs it, and never sees a command or flag the installed CLI does not define.

## What changed

- **Seven guides rewritten** to one standard: outcome spine first (Result / Done / Safe failure), conditions instead of case lists, one done bar, one autonomy envelope, references loaded at the point of use via `skills get <topic> --full`, every runnable invocation spelled `ORCA`. `orca-cli` is 424→260 always-loaded lines with three references (browser, automations, publishing); `orca-per-workspace-env` is 794→397 with five (provider-vercel, ssh-host, docker-ssh, windows-scripts, failure-modes).
- **Defects fixed in shipped guides:** `emulator camera` (no such command), iOS `permissions` (backend refuses it), Android pane described as "in development" (shipped in June), `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`, the Linear unconfirmed-write rule keyed on four verbs when ten emit it. Linear and emulator descriptions dropped embedded commands and angle-bracket placeholders (651→329, 732→404 chars).
- **Generator bundles references.** `skill-guides/<name>/references/*.md` is appended to `--full`; `skills get` help says compact by default, full with references.
- **Stubs single-authored.** The resolver ladder, placeholder rule, and older-binary fallback shared by all eight installable `SKILL.md` files come from one `skill-stubs/_shared/cli-resolution.md` fragment composed by the generator. Projections were byte-identical before the content fixes.
- **Guards:** every `ORCA <cmd>` and flag in every guide and reference resolves against `COMMAND_SPECS` (this found the camera defect); descriptions ≤1024 chars with no angle-bracket tokens; reference routing checked both directions; an always-loaded size ratchet (300 lines) that guides may leave but never join. `orchestration` (440 lines on main) is recorded as an exception until #16904 lands its kernel.

## Relationship to #16904

Split out of #16904 so that PR carries only the orchestration guide. On main, `terminal send` has no `--wait-submit` / `--retry-request` and the orchestration kernel still carries the resolver ladder and worktree-selector rule, so this branch pins `accepted: true` for handoff receipts and leaves the orchestration pins where main has them. The merge in either direction is mechanical: #16904 rebased on this becomes a one-file `orchestration.md` change plus dropping the two exceptions.

## Standard

Compound Engineering's portable skill-authoring guidance (outcome spine, conditions not cases, pinned fragile commands with an ordered hatch, references at point of use). NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 (`schema,pii,license,quality,unicode,lint`) was run on every guide; its deterministic checks pass, its template nudges (Instructions/Examples sections, 50–150 char descriptions) do not apply to Orca's stub architecture and were not applied.

## Testing

- `pnpm typecheck:tsc:cli` clean; `check:code-quality:changed` and `check:react-doctor:changed` 0 findings
- `pnpm verify:bundled-skill-guides` and skill-bundle manifest verify clean
- vitest over `config/scripts`, `src/cli/skill-guide-cli-parity.test.ts`, `src/cli/skills.test.ts`, `src/cli/specs/skills.test.ts`, `src/cli/help.test.ts`, `src/main/skills`: 240 files / 2,019 pass
- Live smoke on the built CLI of every `skills get <topic>` and `--full`, every emulator, linear, and vm verb named in the guides, and every projection's resolver, GNOME warning, and bounded fallback (done on the #16904 branch before the split; the guide bodies are identical here except the send-receipt vocabulary noted above)

## Deferred product decisions

Merging `orca-emulator` and `orca-emulator-android` into one skill with a platform branch; collapsing `linear-tickets` to a guide alias; a `skills get --reference <name>` selector so a gate table can load one file; a fresh-agent routing eval before trimming the `orca-cli` (1,015 chars) and `orchestration` descriptions, whose quoted triggers each fixed a routing misroute.
2026-09-06 16:10:16 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 2283f8ba4e docs(orchestration): never pick a worker model the user did not name (#19109)
The sonnet examples were added for a test cohort. Orchestration must not
choose a model on the user's behalf: pass --model only when the user named
one, otherwise inherit the configured agent default.
2026-09-06 14:51:37 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 06a607a1d7 feat(orchestration): make multi-agent workflows durable (#16904)
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## ELI5

Orca now treats orchestration like a durable control plane instead of inferring success from terminal keystrokes. Agents can tell whether a prompt was accepted or a turn started, replay an ambiguous request without sending twice, and recover coordinator mail after a crash. Completed workers can be inspected, released, or retained, and their panes no longer auto-resume as if the work were still running.

## What changed

- **Run receipts** from `run-create/use/current/show/list` are the row without routing plumbing (`home_database`, `coordinator_pane_key`) and without the duplicate `binding` object.
- **`terminal send` receipts are honest and idempotent.** `input_accepted` and `turn_started` are the only stages; `--wait-submit` observes without resending; `--retry-request <uuid>` replays the exact request against the same process incarnation. A transport timeout keeps the retry ID; only a different runtime answering strips it. Value-less or non-UUID `--retry-request` is rejected on the CLI and the SSH shim.
- **Mailbox delivery is committed before wakeup.** Pointer writes are staged in the DB before any PTY byte, replayed once after restart, and never emit a naked Enter. The watermark that parks concurrent deliveries is released with the DB reservation. Restart rescans pointer-pending and `dispatch:` mailboxes.
- **Lifecycle is a guarded transition graph** (`lifecycle-transition.ts`) with a table-driven test over every caller edge. Task reopen/overturn stays in the public contract. A PTY exit during `worker-stop` is the stop succeeding, not a failure.
- **Worker lifecycle CLI:** `worker-start` (`--spec` creates Task + attempt in one call), `worker-show`, `worker-read` (provider transcript first, bounded terminal fallback with a typed reason, local/WSL/SSH), `worker-stop`, `worker-abandon`, `worker-release`, `worker-retain`, `worker-list` (rowid-fenced pagination, fleet liveness, `attention`, literal `nextAction`).
- **Release is an explicit ownership table** (`decideWorkerTerminalRelease`): only an `owned` resource can be settled, the archive is mandatory where reachable, and an owner whose process is proven exited can always get out of `retained` via `archive_status: unavailable`. User-taken-over, external, and transferred panes stay retained.
- **Settled-worker resume fence** (folds in #17651): a settled dispatch whose pane is still open is fenced at settlement, on stop/abandon/exit, and at startup; lifted on release, retain, takeover, and pane reuse.
- **Liveness is `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited` only**, from execution-host evidence. Fleet projection reads the evidence clock, not the relay delivery clock. A host-certified exit outranks the worker's settled state. `unverifiable` never authorizes stop, abandon, retry, or release, in code or in the guide.
- **Federation:** structured reads negotiate by `method_not_found` so every shipped host keeps transcript-first output; exited remote workers are closed before being reported closed; epoch fencing holds across peer restart, downgrade, and pairing rotation; no per-second forced capability probe.
- **Schema v35:** repairs databases stamped v34 by the pre-fix branch (mailbox_handle default, index predicates), drops the write-only `lifecycle_transition_receipts` ledger and five never-read v31 identity columns.
- **Schema v36:** `dispatch:<id>` mailboxes get a real consumer generation on `dispatch_contexts` and `remote_dispatch_attachments`, bumped and fenced in the same transaction on every re-attach (manual inject, worker-start, federated attach). A stale worker whose Dispatch moved to another process now gets `consumer_fenced` instead of silently acking the new worker's Delivery. Run mailboxes already worked this way.
- **Schema v37:** `dispatch_contexts` records its creator (`creator_handle`, `creator_pane_key`), so a coordinator's context-only self-dispatch is bookkeeping rather than a nesting parent; before this, one self-dispatch made every later `worker-start` from that coordinator fail the depth cap. Pre-v37 rows keep counting (fails closed).
- **Dispatch-mailbox ownership is checked, not inferred.** A `check` from a process whose pane no longer holds the Dispatch, or whose last Attempt was abandoned/failed and moved to another terminal, gets `consumer_fenced` instead of an empty inbox that reads as "no mail yet". `--peek`/`--all` stay readable. A paneless caller still gets `stable_pane_required` with the rebind recovery.
- **Liveness certification is stricter:** a `process_exited` stage whose termination reason is `unknown` (a stop that was issued but never observed) projects `unverifiable`, not `exited`. Federated `worker-show` carries the execution host's verdict and host kind instead of a local guess. A live, ready worker with nothing pending has `nextAction: none` rather than pointing at the `worker-show` that produced it.
- **Wire:** `workerShow` keeps `dispatch.task_id` next to `taskId` for shipped CLIs. `ask --json` uses the standard `{ok, result}` envelope like every sibling verb.
- **Migration start-version detection** treats the two v32 recovery columns as versioned. Before this, every shipped database stamped below 32 resolved to the v6 floor and replayed the whole chain (the v23 backfill synthesized 68 phantom retained workers on a real v30 profile). Verified on a copy of a real 62 MB v30 profile: starts at 30, no row delta, integrity ok, 11 ms.
- **Skill guide** rewritten as a ≤200-line kernel plus seven references, to the outcome-first standard (Result / Done / Safe failure first, conditions not case lists, one done bar, references loaded at the point of use). The canonical loop uses `worker-start --spec`, names `worker-list` for completion accounting, documents `--retry-request` / `request-show` / `--wait-submit`, and requires positive evidence before any stall action. The other seven guides get the same treatment in #18724, split out so this PR stays orchestration-only.
- **`rpc/methods/orchestration-*`** (126 flat files) regrouped into `orchestration/{worker,federation,messaging,runs,gates}/`.

## Why

User reports showed the same boundary failures: false `agent_prompt_stalled` causing duplicate sends (#15180), coordinators unable to trust screen scrapes, cold-parked terminals receiving a pointer without the submit, settled workers accumulating as live tabs and auto-resuming after restart, and no way to tell a stalled worker from a working one.

## Linked issues

Fixes #15180. Fixes #17935 (orchestration skill description is 866 characters; a guard now caps every bundled skill at 1,024). Supersedes #17651 (fence folded in). Advances #16660, #16522, #14907, #13047.

## Review record

This PR was reviewed adversarially after revival: eight independent lenses (lifecycle, mailbox, send, worker, federation, transcript, complexity, live ergonomics), each required to prove findings with a failing test. That produced 16 proven blockers, all fixed with red-then-green regression tests, followed by two re-review rounds and a third fix wave that caught 3 regressions introduced by the fixes and 7 fixes that missed their target; all closed. A final pass (five lenses incl. a live built-runtime smoke, then a re-review of the fix wave) found and fixed seven more, chiefly the stale-worker mailbox steal, the self-dispatch depth wedge, and the unproven-exit certification. Three independent Codex (gpt-6-astra) passes followed: the first found nothing new, the second found and fixed 3 defects (task-status reachability, WSL-local host classification, peer-capability epoch), the third found and fixed 6 (production PTY controller never installed settled writes, ambiguous in-flight pointer failures allowed duplicate replay, SSH/relay deadlines cut off a valid `--wait-submit`, stop-vs-exit race during inspection, and two release-recovery paths for vanished or exited terminals). The full record (findings, proof tests, triage, declines with reasons) is archived outside the repo.

**Rework after the live smoke.** A first live cross-host run on the shipped adhoc build (this Mac, a paired Windows host on the same build, a paired Mac on 1.4.195, and an SSH host) found a P1: a running local worker read `unverifiable`/`missing_status` because the fleet snapshot rows lacked the terminal handle the matcher keyed on. A 59-row failure table over every bug fixed during review showed the same two classes recurring: a fact dropped in transit through optional fields, and two authorities for one fact. Two blind designs (Opus, Codex) converged on the same mechanisms, and the scoped tranches landed here with red-then-green seam tests from the real producer to the real consumer, faults injected only at the transport or hook-ingest boundary:

- **Settlement (data-loss class):** one three-valued `WriteSettlement` (`accepted | refused{reason} | unverifiable{reason, bytesHandedToTransport}`) from the SSH multiplexer through daemon client, providers, controller, to pointer staging. No boolean, no rejection-as-third-state. The two silent degrades that fabricated a handoff are deleted; a provider that cannot settle refuses before any effect. Pointer text and Enter share the contract; a partial flush is `unverifiable`, never `refused`.
- **Evidence identity (false-liveness class):** fleet agent-status evidence is a tagged union (`binding: worker | pane | unresolved{reason}`, `clock: observed | delivery`) minted once at ingest, so a hook row captured on one process incarnation can never bind to a later dispatch on the same pane. The matcher's `!worker.paneKey ||` defaults are gone. One host-scope parser replaces two.
- **Small pre-merge items:** `capability_unsupported` from an old peer is no longer relabelled `host_unavailable`; a producer census test asserts every agent-status consumer path projects a pane-only hook row as `live`.

Two ergonomics defects the second live run surfaced on a real database are fixed here too: a pre-v3 dispatch already marked `completed` projected as `outcome_unknown` / `requiresAction: true` forever (three copies of the outcome ladder disagreed on legacy rows; now one resolver, legacy `completed` reads `succeeded` with nothing to act on, legacy `failed` stays actionable on the failure), and an unscoped `worker-list` enumerated the entire database (now defaults to the Run bound to the calling terminal, `--run` overrides, and the receipt's additive `scope` field says which).

A third live round on the shipped adhoc build of `b082443e1f` (same four hosts) plus an unscripted run in the user's own prompt style (a plain Claude Code shell, `/orchestration`, three workers, zero errors, bound-Run default confirmed) found two more branch defects, fixed with red-then-green tests: a worker freshly started on a paired server projected `unverifiable`/`host_indeterminate` with `requiresAction` for ~3 minutes, including after its own `worker_done`, because the host's federation observation returned `missing_liveness_verdict` for any PTY the liveness register had not yet swept (the host now reads a connected pane it owns locally as `live`; disconnected or SSH-scoped panes stay `unverifiable`); and six pre-v3 completed rows still carried an `input` category because settling through the task-status path or `failDispatch` never closed the Dispatch's pending question threads (both paths close them now, and schema v38 closes threads already pending on settled rows). The guide's `worker-start` examples now show `--model sonnet`, since an omitted model inherits the launcher's default.

A Codex adversarial pass on the tranche diff found one real design hole (identity minted at read time instead of ingest, now closed) and two daemon settlement paths that threw instead of settling (fixed). Two `@ts-nocheck` runtime mixins on these paths were extracted into checked modules; the repo-wide `@ts-nocheck` count is unchanged at 171.

Deletions during review: ~1,900 lines (write-only ledger, unread columns, dead v1 archive path, test harnesses shipped in prod, duplicated liveness and state-machine copies, self-capability checks that were compile-time true).

## Testing

- `pnpm typecheck:tsc:node|cli|web` clean
- `pnpm run check:code-quality:changed` 0 findings; `check:react-doctor:changed` 0
- `pnpm verify:bundled-skill-guides`, `verify:skill-bundle-manifest`
- full `pnpm test` on the integrated head: 72,332 pass / 292 skipped; the only failures were three non-PR files (two zsh live-shell suites hit a node-pty spawn-helper ENOENT while a concurrent native rebuild ran, 44/44 in isolation; `release-checkout.unit.test.ts` is a known 30 s load timeout that passes in isolation on `origin/main` too).
- CI on 70b4811267 (rerun, pre-Codex): the only reds are five SSH e2e specs plus `terminal-send-agent-prompt-submit:198`, each shown failing identically on main (main's E2E workflow is red on its last 40 runs). The terminal-send spec is root-caused and fixed separately in #18707. The Windows hook-service flake (#17721) and the federation load flake did not recur.
- Skills: `pnpm exec vitest run` over the skill gate files plus `src/cli`, `config/scripts`, `src/main/skills` pass; live smoke on the built CLI of `skills get orchestration` and `--full` (7 references).
- live headless runtime (`orca-dev serve`, isolated profile): canonical loop, stop, release, archive read, retry rejection, stale-handle check, SIGKILL-and-replay all verified with receipts
- Live cross-host smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `0d465e7931` (this Mac and a paired Windows host on the build, a paired Mac left on 1.4.195, an SSH host): local, paired-new, paired-old and SSH loops all settle; running workers read `live` on every host and `exited` after release; the old peer reads `capability_unsupported` and refuses release honestly. Injected 10 s relay stall with a send in flight: delivered exactly once after recovery, zero duplicates. Every liveness field across 104 receipts is only `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`.
- Final live cross-host smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `b082443e1f` (same hosts): every loop settles; 942 of 948 legacy completed rows read settled with `requiresAction: false` before the question-thread fix and all of them after; `worker-list` scope reads `bound` / `flag` / `all` correctly; 122 JSON receipts carry only `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`. Unscripted prompt-style run: clean.
- Confirmation smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `2da076d4e9` (this Mac and the paired Windows host, both updated): a freshly started Windows worker reads `live` on the first fleet poll and on all 20 that follow, with no `host_indeterminate` at any point, and `exited` after release; all 948 legacy completed rows read `requiresAction: false` with `nextAction: none` after schema v38; every verdict across 60 receipts is `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`.
- Not physically exercised: WSL hosts, the renderer notification bell (headless has no renderer), same-session fence via a real pane close (renderer-only state), restart mid-delivery on a real app (covered by e2e only).

## Notes

- Remote-wire additions are optional fields or `method_not_found`-negotiated methods; one new Electron-only IPC channel (`agentStatus:legacyWorkerTerminalResumeFence`) never crosses the wire.
- SSH contact loss remains `unverifiable`; the execution host stays authoritative.
- Intentional wire projection change: an SSH host scope with an empty `targetId` now projects host id `ssh` instead of an empty string (remote-wire-compatibility rule 3, old clients decode the same field). A fleet pane key without a terminal handle is now `unidentifiable` rather than matched by pane key alone.
- Found live but pre-existing on main, filed separately: a relay daemon-start collision during transport loss rewrites the endpoint credential and wedges the surviving relay (host needs a manual kill); `terminal create` on a reconnecting SSH host reports an opaque `No PTY provider for connection`; `terminal list` reports `orphaned:false` and `terminal close` reports `ptyKilled:true` for a pane whose relay is gone (orchestration's own projection reads `unverifiable` correctly at the same moment).
- Downgrade after this PR is not a supported path: main opens a v37 database and early-returns (its inserts still work against the v36/v37 defaulted columns), but its one-outstanding-Delivery-per-Run index is a no-op against the branch's mailbox-scoped index of the same name.
- Known follow-ups (not blockers): `worker-list` materializes every dispatch row per call; a positive "agent absent" signal distinct from PTY liveness is a product decision left open (a headless fake agent never reaches `live`, so its `nextAction` stays `inspect`); a context-only self-dispatch still lists as `role: worker` in `worker-list`; `dispatch` task-not-found / task-not-ready / inject-rejected still surface as `runtime_error`; task and inbox receipts still expose raw row columns. Deferred skill product decisions live on #18724.
2026-09-06 14:34:03 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 54a8afc91d fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals (#18902)
* fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals

orchestration dispatch (and worker-start, which composes it) surfaced task
not found, task not ready, and inject rejected as the same bare
runtime_error, so an agent reading the receipt could not choose between
creating the task, waiting on dependencies, or picking another terminal.

Add task_not_found (data.taskId), task_not_ready (data.status,
data.unmetDependencies), and inject_rejected (data.terminal, data.reason),
each carrying data.nextSteps so every shipped CLI already prints the
recovery. worker-start's not-ready refusal moves from task_not_startable
to task_not_ready with the same detail. runtime_error stays for genuinely
unexpected failures.

Proven red-first from RpcDispatcher through the CLI's own failure
formatting, plus an SSH bridge test that the host CLI's typed refusal
relays unchanged.

* test(orchestration): load CLI formatter at runtime in the dispatch-code test

The composite node typecheck (config/tsconfig.node.json without
--composite false, as CI runs it) rejects a static import of src/cli from
a main test with TS6307. Load the formatter and error class dynamically
behind narrow structural types, as the CLI/runtime boundary test does.

* fix(orchestration): keep task_not_startable and split the CLI-format proof

Review on #18902:

- Drop task_not_ready. worker-start already published task_not_startable
  for a not-ready Task, so renaming it would change an existing receipt
  value under old clients. dispatch now emits task_not_startable too (it was
  a bare runtime_error before, so this is purely additive), with the new
  data.status / data.unmetDependencies / data.nextSteps.
- Move the refusal receipts (code, message, data) into
  src/shared/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-contract.ts so the runtime
  emits them and the CLI test formats the identical envelope. The RPC test
  under src/main asserts toEqual against the contract; the new
  src/cli/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-format.test.ts feeds those same
  receipts to formatCliError / reportCliError. Neither tsconfig widens and
  the composite typecheck CI runs is clean.

* fix(orchestration): keep published refusal messages and type the DB claim guards

Codex review of #18902:

- Every call site keeps the exact message it published on main
  ("Task not found: <id>", "only a ready Task can start.", "cannot retry
  from Dispatch"); the shared contract now takes the message per site and
  only owns the code and data. Baseline strings are pinned as literals.
- createDispatchContext's own missing/non-ready guards, including the
  atomic-claim loser, now emit the same typed receipt instead of a bare
  Error, so a dispatch that races a status change no longer flattens to
  runtime_error. Covered by a dispatcher-level race test.
- Invalid --retry-of keeps task_not_startable but now carries status,
  unmetDependencies, retryOf, and a retry-specific next step.
- Dependency recovery text distinguishes waiting on running deps from
  retrying/unblocking failed ones.
- CLI test adds an unknown-code case so the old-client claim rests on an
  assertion, not a comment; SSH test asserts exact stdout.
- Guide table narrowed to the covered preflight cases; occupancy stays
  runtime_error and is named as such.
2026-09-05 20:27:29 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 3e4fd4a7af Shorten orchestration skill description under the Agent Skills 1024-char limit (#18683)
* Shorten orchestration skill description under the Agent Skills 1024-char limit

The folded description was 1038 chars, so spec-conforming installers such
as SkillStar rejected the bundled orchestration skill. Drop the two clauses
already covered elsewhere in the same description: "decomposing work across
agents" (implied by "structured multi-agent coordination") and "automation
of the browser embedded inside Orca" (restated by the locked `orca-cli`
embedded-pages sentence). Every routing trigger asserted by
orchestration-skill-guidance.test.mjs, the orca-cli handoff boundary, and
the Computer Use boundary are unchanged. Result: 958 chars.

Add config/scripts/skill-description-length.test.mjs, which parses every
skills/*/SKILL.md frontmatter with `yaml` and fails on an empty or >1024
char description, so the regression cannot return. orca-cli sits at 1015
and is left as is.

Fixes #17935

* Keep the embedded browser in the orchestration description's orca-cli routing

Restores the word "browser" in the orca-cli sentence ("and the Orca embedded
browser") so agents scanning for it still route embedded-browser control to
orca-cli. Description is 985 chars, 39 under the spec limit.
2026-09-04 14:27:07 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 573537ecd4 feat(cli): make terminal close the canonical workspace teardown (#18073)
* fix(runtime): recover stale session owners and await retirement

* fix(runtime): preserve session hydration and smoke compatibility

* test(runtime): cover empty and unindexed session owners

* feat(cli): make terminal close the canonical workspace teardown

* fix(preload): align ssh termination result type

* test(runtime): assert folder hydration owner

* fix(runtime): fence legacy terminal stop by worktree host

* fix(preload): reconcile ssh result import with main

* fix(runtime): keep same-id sibling hosts out of workspace close

The stale-owner fallback in the session controller re-routed any worktree whose
catalog partition had no tabs to whichever other partition held tabs. Only
`runtime:` environment ids rotate across relay restarts; `repoId::path` legitimately
repeats across hosts, so an SSH workspace close could retire the local copy's
tabs and resume records, or flip owners mid-close and strand the SSH PTY.

Restrict the fallback to runtime hosts, and pin the session partition once per
workspace close so record clearing targets the partition that owned the tabs.

* test(runtime): give the cross-host close fixture a real resume record

* fix(preload): take main's ssh-bridge import order so the merge stays duplicate-free
2026-09-03 03:58:45 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong b44ef1e59d fix(skills): narrow computer-use discovery boundary (#17736)
* fix(skills): narrow computer-use discovery boundary

* chore: remove merge-formatting noise

* fix(skills): name browser page automation surfaces
2026-08-31 18:57:52 -04:00
NeilandBrennan Benson fbe94ceff6 fix: close readiness gaps found by merged-change audit (#17159)
* fix(ssh): fence stale kills and retired pane replay

* fix(ssh): support cancellable interactive authentication

* fix(ssh): await remote catalog before snapshot adoption

* fix(pty): contain Windows ConPTY input failures

* fix(power): avoid redundant macOS display blocking

* perf(editor): narrow markdown override subscriptions

* fix(quick-open): close directory handles after reads

* refactor(linux): remove unused proc socket scanner

* fix(usage): apply flat Sonnet 4.6 pricing

* ci: prime Node next native test cache

* docs(skills): resolve snapshot cleanup data path

* fix(ssh): recover install locks after host reboot

* test(ssh): recognize boot-aware install locks

* test(ssh): prove previous-boot lock recovery live

* test(wire): pin pre-metadata release coverage

* fix(terminal): preserve remote tab ownership through recovery races

* test(runtime): fence replaced terminal handles in agent guard

* fix(ssh): preserve remote snapshot authority across polls

* fix(pty): contain late ConPTY output EPIPE

* test(pty): register Windows exit watcher before kill

* fix: close SSH and tab readiness race gaps

* fix(tabs): retain headless order and placeholder titles

* fix(build): avoid parallel electron-vite config race

* test(windows): avoid MSYS temp path rewriting

* test(windows): avoid killing exited PTY

* fix(pty): avoid late ConPTY input teardown race

* fix(terminal): sync reconnect error ownership after commit

* fix(runtime): use canonical worktree identity comparison

* test(ssh): assert complete cold-hydration baseline

* test(windows): invoke quoted retention fixture via PowerShell

* test(windows): read ConPTY grid through mode con

* fix(terminal): publish PTY replacements atomically

* fix(terminal): infer stale identity on reattach

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane PTY callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane binds after rebind

* fix(terminal): reject stale pane transport callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence mirrored reattach spawn callbacks

* fix(terminal): replace stale pane PTYs on remount

* fix(ci): size the Windows launcher-compile test budget from measurement

`native-smoke (windows-latest)` fails ~4.5% of runs on
`preserves a multiline argument through the compiled remote launcher`
with "Test timed out in 15000ms" — on unrelated PRs, for reasons that
have nothing to do with them. Across 176 sampled attempts it is the only
red that job produced, and it hit seven different PRs in two days:
#16900, #16904, #16915, #16955 (twice), #16979, #17014, #17085.

The test is six process creations: powershell.exe forks csc.exe, then
the freshly compiled orca.exe forks node.exe, twice. Hosted Windows
runners periodically slow process creation down, and this test amplifies
that far harder than anything else in the job. Comparing the 80 attempts
where it ran under 3s against the 12 where it ran over 12s, its own
median goes 2198ms -> 15917ms (7.2x) while the same file's
powershell-only test moves 556 -> 686ms (1.2x), the cmd.exe and Git Bash
process tests in the neighbouring file move 1.4x, and the other 35 files
put together move 1.5x.

Measured across those 176 attempts: 1881ms to 35438ms, p50 4264ms,
correlation +0.881 with the job's total Vitest duration. 8 of 176 (4.5%)
exceeded the 15s cap; 2 of 176 (1.1%) also exceeded the shared 30s
testTimeout, so deleting the override and inheriting the config is not
enough on its own. 60s clears all 176 with 1.7x headroom on the worst.

This is slow, not hung. Every body here is synchronous spawnSync, so
Vitest cannot interrupt one — the timer fires only after the body
returns and the reported duration is real elapsed time. That is why a
failure reads `× ... 22464ms` under `Test timed out in 15000ms`. The
work finished; the stopwatch was short. Seven reruns at one identical
head measured 2053 / 4680 / 5551 / 8732 / 13506 / 14868 / 21937ms — the
last of those would have been red on code that had not changed.

The 15s came from #8897, which raised this test off Vitest's built-in 5s
default because the job then ran bare `pnpm vitest run`. #8909 landed
3h27m later and pointed the job at config/vitest.config.ts, which is the
real fix for that. The constant stayed behind and has been the binding
budget ever since.

* fix(terminal): fence stale remount reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): reconcile mounted pane identity after replacement

* fix(terminal): fence stale reattach fallback ownership

* fix(terminal): fence deferred SSH reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): fence stale split pane ownership callbacks

* fix(terminal): keep stale spawns from consuming startup

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-31 08:17:40 -07:00
Brennan Benson cc6b600e21 Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects (#16919)
* Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects

Five reported orchestration CLI defects, verified individually before fixing.
Two were real code defects, one was a docs error, one was correct as-is, and
one was correct on both ends except for its recovery wording.

- Mail addressed to a settled `dispatch:<id>` was accepted and silently dropped.
  Local sends bypassed the settlement check the federated branch already had, so
  the caller was told success for a delivery no worker would ever read. Reject
  with `dispatch_inactive` and name the Run mailbox to use instead.

- A lost mutation response offered no read-only way to ask whether it took
  effect. `--retry-request` does dedupe correctly, but the recovery guidance
  emitted a query command only when the payload carried a dispatch id, which is
  exactly what a lost response lacks. Add read-only
  `orca orchestration request-show --request <id>` over the durable receipt
  ledger, and always emit a read-only step before the keyed retry.

- The bundled `orca-cli` guide documented `check --unread --inject`, a flag the
  parser rejects. Correct it to `--format` and add a ratchet that runs every
  orchestration invocation in the bundled guides through the real CLI parser.

- `check --json` is one stdout document and its keepalives are stderr-only; the
  reported `Extra data: line 2` came from merging the streams. Document the
  contract rather than changing the wire.

- A rejected lifecycle message is loud on both ends already, but the rejection
  never named the flag that supplies the missing capability. Name it.

* Harden orchestration mutation recovery guidance
2026-08-30 18:12:58 -07:00
Neil 2b0ee06205 docs(env-recipes): warn that snapshotting a started runtime bakes its identity (#17001)
Snapshotting a VM on which `orca serve` has already run captures the
runtime's user-data dir into the image. Every VM booted from that image
then shares one pairing identity and one agent-session-authority key,
which defeats the per-device token design.

Confirmed by booting two VMs from one such snapshot: both emitted
identical deviceToken and pairedDeviceId.

Adds the rule to the base-snapshot section and repeats it for the
agent-auth layer, which is the likelier place to start the runtime by
hand while smoke-testing. Says to delete the whole user-data dir rather
than a named file list, since that list drifts as Orca adds state.
2026-08-28 02:37:55 -07:00
Jinjing c4b39295c1 style: format codebase (#16935)
* style: format codebase

* style: format codebase

* refactor: extract skill install dialog footer and content

Extract footer and content sections from SkillInstallDialog and
SkillInstallManagementDialog into separate components for improved
maintainability and clarity of component responsibilities.
2026-08-28 00:59:21 -07:00
Brennan Benson 9135b6f004 feat(orchestration): surface nested worker depth and propagate it across hosts (#16669)
* feat(orchestration): surface nested worker depth and propagate it across hosts

Builds on the depth enforcement in the previous commit, which shipped with the
setting reachable only by editing settings.json and with workers never told they
could nest.

Adds the Settings -> Agents control (a 1/2/3 select rather than a free-form
number, which bounds the value without inventing a numeric input primitive). The
key stays absent from the SettingsUpdate RPC schema, matching agentSkillSharingEnabled:
settings.update is reachable from the CLI, so an RPC-writable depth would let a
worker raise its own cap.

Adds a SUB-DISPATCH block to the dispatch preamble, emitted only when the worker
actually has budget left. A worker told it "usually cannot" delegate still tries and
then reports the refusal as a blocker, so the section is omitted entirely rather
than softened.

Propagates depth to federated worker hosts. Previously the home side computed and
stored a depth the remote host never received, so a remote attachment always read
as depth 1. That is correct at the default cap and wrong as soon as the cap is
raised — precisely when someone starts relying on nesting. The field is optional,
so an older Run home simply omits it and the attachment's NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 keeps
the fail-closed behaviour. Enforcement still runs on the executing host against
that host's own cap, consistent with the SSH execution boundary.

* fix(orchestration): close nested depth readiness gaps

* fix(settings): defer nested depth translations

* fix(orchestration): drop federated depth keys that main already landed

The enforcement PR's review pass added the same federated depth propagation
before it merged, so replaying this branch onto main produced duplicate object
keys. Keep main's versions -- its schema entry validates an integer >= 1 rather
than any finite number.

* fix(settings): label nested worker depth select

* fix(settings): move nested depth to orchestration

* fix(settings): refine nested depth placement
2026-08-26 16:16:05 -07:00
Brennan Benson 8a07bbd8cf fix(orchestration): enforce nested worker depth instead of an accidental fence (#16668)
* fix(orchestration): enforce nested worker depth instead of an accidental fence

Orca documented that "dispatched workers cannot spawn their own sub-workers
(worker-start is coordinator-fenced)". No such check existed. What existed was a
single Run-binding check in the workerStart RPC: a worker's terminal is not bound
to a Run, so worker-start happened to fail. The rule was emergent, asserted by no
test, and written in no doc — and it leaked. A worker could run-create its own
Run, task-create, and worker-start: now bound, the check passed.

Replace it with a real, configurable depth cap.

Depth is derived from the caller's own active Dispatch rather than from Run
binding, which is what dissolves the run-create bypass: creating a Run does not
stop you being a worker. Enforcement lives in a single dispatch-row writer that
owns all three INSERTs that mint a live worker — the generic claim, the supervised
worker-start path (including every retry), and the remote attachment. Two of those
were missed by earlier drafts of this change, so `creator` and `maxDepth` are
required parameters: a new spawn path cannot compile without deciding, and a
boundary test refuses the SQL anywhere else.

Schema v30 adds depth to dispatch_contexts and remote_dispatch_attachments,
NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 and backfilled to 1 so an unstamped or pre-upgrade row fails
closed rather than reading as a root coordinator. The attachment pane indexes
widen to the five states in which a remote worker may still be running:
loss of contact is not evidence of process death, so an unverifiable worker still
counts as a nesting parent.

Also adds the caller-evidence assertion that workerStart was the only Run-scoped
verb to skip, so a declared --from cannot name another terminal's pane and inherit
its depth.

Default is 1, so behaviour is unchanged unless the new setting is raised. Two
limitations are deliberate and documented rather than papered over: this is a
guardrail and not a security boundary, since a caller whose launch evidence is
unverifiable (any ordinary restored terminal) can declare another handle; and it
is enforced at supervised dispatch creation, so a settled worker whose process is
still alive counts as a root again.

* fix(orchestration): share caller resolution and pin worker gaps

* refactor(orchestration): make the caller resolver's pane contract explicit

Overloads so requireStablePane callers get a non-null string instead of casting,
and rename the attestation opt-out to say what it means: the caller asserts it
itself. A flag called assertEvidence:false reads as "attestation optional",
which is the hole this helper exists to close.

* fix(orchestration): propagate dispatch depth to federated workers

* chore(cli): refresh bundled orchestration guide
2026-08-26 13:22:09 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandJinwoo-H a9781a4118 STA-4150: client-hosted remote browser (consolidated) (#15448)
Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo@stably.ai>
2026-08-25 15:36:51 -07:00
Brennan Benson 3fca1d1648 fix(linear): unbound list-issues by default, surface truncation, bind cursor workspace (#15824)
Fixes STA-5076.

list-issues capped at 50 by default and hard-clamped at 250, with hasMore buried
under result.meta and no stderr warning for --json, so a page that stopped early
read as a complete answer. Omitting --limit now walks Linear's pages until they
run out (meta.limit is null), and --limit <n> is the only cap, paging past
Linear's 250-per-request maximum to reach it. result.truncated sits next to
result.issues and is set only when a cap actually held results back; human output
prints "truncated: showing N".

The read still has to fit the CLI's 60s RPC budget, so a 20s wall-clock deadline
and a 200-page ceiling stop the walk early and report truncated with a
continuation cursor rather than failing the command.

Also:
- issued --cursor values bind the resolved workspace, so call -> nextCursor ->
  call works without --workspace; raw Linear cursors still need one and now carry
  nextSteps
- issued cursors whose payload smuggles back `all` or an empty workspace are
  rejected at decode, since either would widen the read past the bound workspace
- JSON issue rows carry priorityLabel (none/urgent/high/medium/low), matching
  orca linear priority set
- truncated and priorityLabel are optional on the wire, so a host that predates
  either is not read as "complete"; readers fall back to meta.hasMore
- the truncation line prints the rows actually rendered, so a remote result with
  no meta.returned cannot print "showing undefined"
2026-08-21 14:28:55 -07:00
Brennan Benson 2a760e310b fix(computer): report unasserted accessibility actions (#15028)
* fix(computer): report unasserted accessibility actions

* fix(computer): fail closed on missing action metadata

* Fix merged tab search test fixture
2026-08-18 11:29:26 -07:00
Brennan Benson fc8b92e507 docs(computer): explain screenshot file requirements (#15054)
* docs(computer): clarify screenshot output requirements

* fix(cli): do not advertise an unshipped --probe flag

The capabilities help line referenced --probe, which does not exist yet;
it ships in a later change. Advertising it here would be false until then.

* fix(cli): align computer-use screenshot guidance

* docs(computer): document inline screenshot fallback

* docs(computer): keep screenshot summary accurate

* docs(computer): keep screenshot guidance general
2026-08-18 01:18:56 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 0bedeea642 fix(orchestration): expose unsupervised dispatch lanes (#15105) 2026-08-17 13:53:26 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong fa9b20cb41 feat(skills): reland private bundle sharing safely (#14934) 2026-08-16 13:45:54 -07:00
Jinjing 763b1febeb Revert "feat(skills): add private bundle sharing (#14401)" (#14913)
This reverts commit 757fae28d7.
2026-08-16 10:39:57 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandE2E Test 757fae28d7 feat(skills): add private bundle sharing (#14401)
Co-authored-by: E2E Test <e2e@test.local>
2026-08-16 02:36:18 -07:00
Brennan Benson 66dfdc456f feat(computer-use): support macOS middle click and stop the silent left-click fallback (#14721)
* feat(computer-use): support macOS middle click and gate the AX click path

`--mouse-button middle` already validated end-to-end through the CLI, the
zod schema, and the provider validator, and both the Windows and Linux
providers honored it. Only the macOS provider rejected it outright with
"middle-click is not yet supported", so the flag was a dead end on the one
platform that has no fallback.

Two changes:

- Add `.middle` to the macOS button mapping. macOS has no dedicated middle
  event family, so it rides `otherMouseDown`/`otherMouseUp` with the button
  number carried by `mouseButton: .center`; that constructor argument is
  honored for exactly the `otherMouse*` types, so no extra field write is
  needed.
- Validate the requested button before the accessibility fast path, and skip
  that path for buttons it cannot express. Previously the raw string was read
  unvalidated, and `performClickAction` only special-cased `right`, so
  `click --mouse-button middle --element-index N` (no modifiers, count 1) fell
  through to `AXPress` — a left click — and reported success with
  `path: "accessibility"`. Any unrecognized button string did the same. This
  matches guards the Windows and Linux providers already had.

The button enum moves into `OrcaComputerUseMacOSCore` so it is unit-testable;
`main.swift` keeps only the CoreGraphics mapping.

Also documents `--mouse-button` in the computer-use skill guide, which never
mentioned the flag, so agents on Windows and Linux had no way to discover it.

* test(computer-use): cover macOS middle click in the real-desktop e2e suite

* test(computer-use): prove macOS middle-click delivery
2026-08-15 00:41:45 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 500b72d8ef fix(vm): harden provisioned root ownership and cleanup (#14477)
* fix(vm): verify provisioned root ownership

* test(vm): retry transient removal menu

* test(vm): stabilize provisioned root teardown

* fix(vm): clarify recipe-owned cleanup

* fix(vm): pin provisioned root source commit

* fix(vm): make runtime cleanup user-cancellable
2026-08-14 19:04:55 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 77b37d85e2 feat(vm): create workspaces from provisioned SSH roots (#14359)
* feat(vm): use recipe-provisioned SSH roots

* fix(vm): preserve ordinary create failure timing

* test(vm): prepare provisioned root SSH fixture

* ci(vm): enable SSH setup for provisioned root E2E
2026-08-13 16:23:22 -07:00
erishandJinwoo-H 1f4b731f7c fix(skills): use exported recipe id in environment guide (#14280)
* fix(skills): use exported recipe id in environment guide

* fix(skills): keep recipe-derived Vercel names valid

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Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo0825@gmail.com>
2026-08-13 14:18:57 -07:00
Brennan Benson cbca291aa7 fix(orchestration): preserve direct user authority after worker_done (#14192)
* fix(orchestration): preserve direct user authority

* test(orchestration): assert settled dispatch boundaries
2026-08-13 12:00:04 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong d349f9a972 Use provider-neutral Opus alias in orchestration guide (#14119) 2026-08-12 16:03:29 -07:00
JinjingandOrca 3ec48a74d5 Gate artifact publishing behind off-by-default capability (#13368)
* fix(artifacts): gate agent artifact publishing behind an off-by-default capability

Public artifact sharing was reachable by any agent through `orca artifacts
share`: the Artifacts settings toggle only controlled sidebar visibility, and
nothing in the main process checked a capability before minting a public URL.

Add `artifactSharingEnabled` (default off) and enforce it in
ArtifactCloudService.share/update — before auth, network, or the share-record
write — so the CLI, relay-forwarded remote CLI, and IPC paths are all denied.
The denial carries a stable `artifact_sharing_disabled` code plus next steps
through the RPC error allowlist, so the CLI prints actionable guidance.

list, unshare, and delete stay ungated: turning publishing off must not strand
already-published links. The capability is absent from the `settings.update`
RPC schema, so an agent cannot grant it to itself — only the desktop UI can.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(artifacts): gate agent artifact publishing behind an off-by-default

Publishing is blocked until enabled in Settings → Artifacts. CLI preflights the capability before reading files to avoid unnecessary uploads. RPC surface rejects capability grants so callers cannot self-grant. UI shows opt-in workflow and recovery path when publishing is off. Web clients mirror the host's setting read-only.

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-08-09 13:19:08 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong c991bb27d3 Add account-backed artifact sharing (#13012) 2026-08-07 23:02:29 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong b0ba51831c Add per-worker model and effort overrides (#12851) 2026-08-05 21:17:45 -07:00
Brennan Benson 39c3c58d55 perf(runtime): gate terminal.list visual layouts (#12450)
* perf(runtime): gate terminal.list visual layouts and stop the false writable claim

visualLayouts is ~31% of a large terminal.list payload (44,208 B of 137,412 B on a live 134-terminal remote runtime) and has exactly one consumer: the human-readable CLI formatter. Gate it behind an includeVisualLayouts request param that defaults to included, so pre-flag clients are unaffected, and have every --json/internal caller opt out.

Also drop the record-backed builder's writable, which was a verbatim copy of connected. terminal.show now states writability explicitly as exactly what terminal.send's PTY gate enforces.

* test(runtime): type the payload-size fixture arrays for tsc

* fix(runtime): preserve terminal list compatibility

* test(runtime): guard terminal list optimization

* fix(cli): preserve agent access to terminal layouts
2026-08-04 17:50:52 -07:00
Brennan BensonandOrcaWin f4b2b782b5 feat(orchestration): coordinator-driven release of settled worker terminals (STA-905) (#12355)
Co-authored-by: OrcaWin <293788423+OrcaWin@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-03 17:17:26 -07:00
OrcaWin 9a2676023c fix(orchestration): prefer current authority over legacy fallback (#11737) 2026-07-31 01:56:13 -07:00
Neil d0f341ad69 fix(computer-use): make modifier clicks interruption-safe (#11451)
* fix(computer-use): make modifier clicks interruption-safe

* fix(computer-use): pace modified Windows multiclicks

* fix(computer-use): address modifier safety review
2026-07-29 18:29:10 -07:00
Neil 78b8a37aed fix(cli): keep automated worktree creation in background (#11445) 2026-07-29 17:45:57 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrcaWin 363e478909 fix(orchestration): preserve active workers across updates (#11271)
* fix(orchestration): preserve active workers across updates

* test(ssh): model absent legacy adoption

* test(orchestration): align compatibility contracts

* fix(windows): escape updater PowerShell booleans

* fix(windows): restore stock uninstall process check

* fix(orchestration): keep recovery off renderer startup barrier

* fix(orchestration): harden legacy recovery migration

* fix(orchestration): close recovery review gaps

* fix(orchestration): complete legacy worker cutover recovery

* fix(orchestration): preserve legacy workers across updates

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Co-authored-by: OrcaWin <293788423+OrcaWin@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-29 11:31:35 -07:00