Brennan Benson
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* feat(native-chat): visual directive grammar and host read for a chat's visuals folder
A shared grammar for the ::orca-visual{file="..." title="..."} reply line,
the per-chat visuals folder location on the owning host, and the
agentSession.readVisual runtime method that reads one visual with lexical and
canonical containment, a 512 KiB bounded read and UTF-8 refusal.
* feat(native-chat): shared frame document for chat visuals
One string builder every client wraps a visual's HTML with: the policy
(CDN assets only, no fetch, frames, workers, forms or base rewrites),
the theme variables, and a prelude that reports height, routes links to
the parent and refuses navigation. Also the validated frame-to-parent
message reader and the live theme message.
* feat(mobile): render native-chat visuals inline in the phone's chat
A finished assistant reply's ::orca-visual line now shows the visual
inline, read from the chat's owning host through agentSession.readVisual.
The visual runs in an opaque sandboxed child of a trusted host document
inside the WebView; the app accepts only a token-checked height and an
http(s) link opened under user activation. Navigation away from the
visual's own document is refused, a dead web process reloads once, and
the visual opens full screen. The hybrid shell's page renders it sealed.
* feat(native-chat): render chat visuals inline and in the right sidebar
Native-chat assistant replies render a ::orca-visual{...} line as the chat's
HTML visual in an opaque, scripts-only sandboxed frame: CSP first, the host
frame navigation guard registered before content runs, live theme without a
reload, fitted height, links opened in the viewer's browser only from a real
gesture, lazy mount, and one muted line when the visual cannot be shown.
Open in sidebar shows the same frame in the right sidebar, widened while it
is open and restored after.
* fix(mobile): chat visuals use the shared shell; only the host page may message the app
Review round 1:
- use PR 1's shared visual shell and height governor instead of a second
builder; the app decides heights and pushes them to the host page
- react-native-webview patch: the message channel accepts only string
messages from the main frame on iOS and Android, so a visual in its
sandboxed child cannot reach it (or crash Android with a non-string)
- structured replies grow in place: while a turn works, a row holds back a
directive still being typed at its tail; finished lines mount
- links need child focus + activation, one per activation window
- a refused read takes the visual down and drops its cached bytes
- in-page anchors load; text spelling a placeholder renders no visuals
* refactor(native-chat): move the visual height governor to src/shared
The phone bundles only src/shared, so the governor the desktop frame uses
moves there unchanged and the mobile frame shares it.
* fix(native-chat): point the desktop and mobile frames at the moved governor
* fix(mobile): review round 2 for chat visuals
- host page relays only messages on the visual's own channel, as its own
copy, so a visual cannot push oversized fields through it; relay rate
halved; a link is validated before it uses up the link window
- the frame denies camera, microphone, geolocation, clipboard and display
capture; iOS media capture requests are denied
- react-native-webview patch: the iOS history-shim handler also accepts
only main-frame string messages
- only the newest assistant row of a working turn holds back an unfinished
directive; earlier finished rows show their visuals
- an error reply or older host is not a verdict: it keeps a visual on
screen and its cache, and retries; only a host refusal takes it down
* fix(mobile): a drag that starts on an inline visual scrolls the chat
iOS gives a scrollable frame its own scroll view, which took the drag;
the inline frame is sized to its content, so it no longer scrolls.
Full screen still does.
* fix(mobile): review round 3 for chat visuals
- hold back only the last block of the newest assistant row, and not
while a question or approval is open, so a visual followed by a tool
call or a pending question shows at once
- an older host (method_not_found) reads as unavailable without retries
- drop a stray @pnpm/exe lockfile block; only the patch hash changes
* test(mobile): list the visual frame's web sibling; mock it in the prompt-controller harness
* fix(mobile): an older desktop's mobile allowlist refusal reads as unavailable at once
* fix(native-chat): visual CI fixes, shared height governor, live-turn streaming hold
Registers agentSession.readVisual from the methods index so the structured
method file stays under its line budget, replaces reflective reads with checked
narrowing, moves the pure height governor to src/shared for mobile, and holds a
half-written directive tail while the turn works (structured text rows carry no
running state).
* fix(native-chat): harden the visual read and link opening
Re-checks after the open that the chat's visuals folder is still the real
directory at Orca's path, reports unexpected filesystem faults by code without
host paths, and lets one click in a visual open at most one page.
* fix(native-chat): keep visual lines out of plain-text reply surfaces; review fixes
One shared helper drops visual lines (outside fenced code) from reply text where
it becomes plain text: the structured status summary that feeds the sidebar row,
dashboard, notifications, phone rows and handoffs, and AI Vault reply previews.
Review fixes: height also counts a pinned body's overflow, only the live
frontier row holds a half-written visual line, the runaway-height stop needs the
same step repeated, and any host refusal evicts the cached revision.
* fix(native-chat): resolve the visuals folder without the removed journal-paths helper
Main removed the per-chat journal paths and the journal database's state
directory; the visuals folder keeps the same sha256 layout on its own and the
read method uses the profile state directory the chat host is opened in.
* fix(mobile): keep visual lines out of the worktree row and copied message text
A reply's ::orca-visual line renders only in the transcript. The
worktree list's agent row and the message actions sheet's copy text now
drop it with the shared helper; a reply that is only a visual falls back
to the prompt, as an empty one does.
* fix(native-chat): review round 2 fixes; copy a reply without its visual lines
Reply previews in Agent Session History drop visual lines per text part before
lines are folded; the frame adds a body's overflow only when the body really
overflows; fence tracking follows CommonMark closers and openers; the copy
button copies a reply without visual lines; a coded read fault keeps its cause.
* fix(native-chat): update the frame's theme ref after render; read the visuals folder pair at once
* test(native-chat): declare agentSession.readVisual on the cross-version agent-session surface
* fix(native-chat): copying a reply keeps its code blocks and indentation
Removing visual lines now closes only the gap each removal leaves, instead of
collapsing blank lines across the whole reply and trimming its indentation; the
visuals folder is checked parent first again so a broken path answers the same
way every time.
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.
Claude Code
Codex
Grok
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Muse
DeepSeek Harness
ZCode
OpenCode
MiMo Code
Amp
OpenClaude
Antigravity
Pi
oh-my-pi
Hermes Agent
Devin
Goose
Auggie
Autohand Code
Charm
Cline
CodeBuddy
Codebuff
Freebuff
Command Code
Continue
Droid
Kilocode
Kimi
Kiro
Mistral Vibe
Qwen Code
Rovo Dev
+ any CLI agent
Install
Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux
- Download from onOrca.dev
- Or grab a build directly: macOS Apple Silicon · macOS Intel · Windows (.exe) · Linux AppImage · All builds
- Running
orca serveon a headless Linux server? See the headless Linux server guide.
Or via a package manager:
# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca
# Arch Linux (AUR) — or stably-orca-git to build from source
yay -S stably-orca-bin
Mobile Companion — iOS, Android
Pair with your desktop app to monitor and steer your agents from your phone.
- iOS: Download on the App Store
- Android: Download APK 0.0.52 · Install guide
Community & Support
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Discord: Join the community on Discord.
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Twitter / X: Follow @orca_build for updates and announcements.
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WeChat: Scan to join the Orca community WeChat group 11.
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Feedback & Ideas: We ship fast. Missing something? Request a new feature.
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Privacy: See the privacy & telemetry docs for what anonymous usage data Orca collects and how to opt out.
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Show Support: Star this repo to follow along with our daily ships.
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.
Signed Builds
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License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.