Brennan Benson
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* feat(native-chat): host-owned startup attempt and hold-and-deliver barrier The host now mints one startup attempt before any adapter acquires (lease identity, spawn token, pinned launch context, cancellation, a 60 s deadline from the mint that activity never renews, option intent, and the event and child-work sinks), and the shared delivery loop hands nothing to a child still proving its start. A send is still accepted and journaled at once; readiness (the normalized `started` settlement) wakes delivery, which re-checks the child, fence, close and Stop before handover. A start that fails, crashes, or misses its deadline leaves held messages definitely unsent; a dispatch that throws after handover is `unknown`, never inferred unsent from the child's phase. * fix(native-chat): time agent starts from spawn by progress, and release Claude on initialize Review round 1 on the host-owned startup attempt. - The startup clock now starts when the process exists and fails a start only after 60 s with no stdout frame or stderr line, or 10 minutes after spawn however chatty it is. Every agent's child reports output through the one managed-process spawn, so a slow migration or history replay is no longer killed mid-way. Each start's spawn-to-outcome time is recorded as an `agentSession.startup` span for tuning. - Claude reports `started` on its initialize answer; the settings read follows and is applied and persisted as a later `options-reported` update, so messages no longer wait on it. - A started child's reported options are persisted in their own step after the held messages are handed over, and only if no pick changed the record's options since. - An attempt now ends whenever its child ends or an expiry stopped it. - Removed `optionsAsOf`, which was not an option revision, and comments that described the old publish-and-write-at-once behaviour. * fix(native-chat): keep the startup attempt's contract free of host and process code The adapter contract imported the attempt type from the module that also runs its clock and imports the host types, which pulled the model catalog and process-scan code into the mobile test typecheck. The attempt's shape and limits now live in a dependency-free contract module. * fix(native-chat): never let a stale option report undo a later pick A report of the child's options is now persisted only if no pick, no model-not-found heal and no newer report reached the chat since its read began. The host keeps one option revision per chat; the startup attempt hands the adapter a reader for it, and each report carries the revision it was read at. This replaces the record-snapshot check `started` had and covers the settings report, which had none, so a settings read answered just after a pick can no longer write the older model back. Also: the option read a ready child does inside its start now ends with the start (limit, Stop or close); a start that turns ready as the limit fires is recorded as ready; the startup-attempt host tests run under the Node SQLite runtime; and the retired-model test follows the new startup order. * fix(native-chat): require the option revision and order reports by arrival The host can no longer mint a startup attempt without the conversation's option revision, so no host path can stamp a report at a stale zero and drop every report after the first pick. Adapter tests may still omit it. A report is now dropped only when a pick or a value the child showed it cannot run came after its read. Reports are ordered among themselves by when the host takes them, and only the newest admitted one is persisted. The settings read's stamp therefore holds however late the host takes the start's report, instead of relying on that report being handled synchronously before the read begins. Tests: a settings read stamped before the host took the start's report is kept; a report read after a failed pick is persisted; the minted attempt's revision reader answers the host's current revision.
Orca
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
Run Codex, ClaudeCode, OpenCode or Pi side-by-side — each in its own worktree, tracked in one place.
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Features
Mobile CompanionMonitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere. |
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Parallel WorktreesFan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner. |
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Terminal SplitsGhostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts. |
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Design ModeClick any UI element in a real Chromium window to send its HTML, CSS, and a cropped screenshot straight into your agent's prompt. |
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GitHub & Linear, NativeBrowse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch. |
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SSH WorktreesRun agents on a beefy remote box with full file editing, git, and terminals — auto-reconnect and port forwarding included. |
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Annotate AI DiffsDrop comments on any diff line and ship them back to the agent — review, edit, and commit without leaving Orca. |
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Drag Files to AgentsVS Code's editor with autosave everywhere — drag files or images straight into an agent prompt. |
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Orca CLIAgents drive Orca too — script every workflow with |
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Also in the box:
- Quick open — Search across worktrees, files, agents, commands, and repo context without leaving your flow.
- Account switcher & usage tracking — See Claude and Codex usage and rate-limit resets, and hot-swap accounts without re-logging in.
- Rich repo previews — Preview Markdown, images, PDFs, and repo docs in the workspace.
- Computer Use — Let agents operate desktop apps and visible UI when a workflow needs real interaction.
- Notifications and unread state — Know when an agent finishes or needs attention, then mark threads unread to come back later.
- And many, many more — we ship daily, so this list is perpetually behind. The changelog is the real feature list.
Supported Agents
Works with any CLI agent — if it runs in a terminal, it runs in Orca.
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oh-my-pi
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Continue
Droid
Kilocode
Kimi
Kiro
Mistral Vibe
Qwen Code
Rovo Dev
+ any CLI agent
Install
Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux
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# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca
# Arch Linux (AUR) — or stably-orca-git to build from source
yay -S stably-orca-bin
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Developing
Want to contribute or run locally? See our CONTRIBUTING.md guide.
The relay that pairs the mobile app with a desktop host is also in this repository under
cloud/, with a separate pnpm workspace and setup guide.
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License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.