Brennan Benson 2ae7c00e84 fix(opencode): keep OpenCode 2 panes Working across plugin reloads (#23700)
* fix(opencode): keep OpenCode 2 panes Working across plugin reloads

OpenCode 2 disposes and re-sets-up every plugin whenever its plugins dir
changes, while sessions keep running. The status plugin published a final
Idle on dispose, so a pane read Done mid-turn. Orca also rewrote the plugin
file on every PTY spawn, so opening any terminal triggered that reload.

Dispose now releases the factory's bookkeeping without publishing a
verdict; the next lifecycle event settles the pane, and Orca's ended-process
reconciliation still retires panes whose agent exited. The plugin file is
written only when its bytes differ.

* fix(opencode): skip rewriting an unchanged plugin in the SSH relay install too

The relay's canonical-config install still unlinked and rewrote the status plugin on every OpenCode launch over SSH, which restarts every plugin in a remote OpenCode 2 server. Share one install-currency check (lstat + the existing byte comparison) between the local and relay writers, and pin write-if-changed with mtime so the tests also fail on filesystems that reuse a freed inode.

* fix(opencode): keep the final Idle when OpenCode 1 tears its instance down

OpenCode 1 disposes a plugin only when it tears the instance down, and that
teardown cancels every running session, so the Idle published on dispose is
true there; the cancelled run's own idle may never reach the plugin. Only
OpenCode 2 disposes on a hot reload while turns keep running. The generated
module serves both hosts, so the OpenCode 2 setup() entry point now tells the
shared factory that sessions outlive disposal; the server() path keeps the
previous disposal behaviour, including the hand-off to a surviving factory.

* fix(opencode): compare a symlinked plugin by its target before rewriting

OpenCode 2 loads plugins through file-level symlinks and reads the revision
from the target's mtime, so a user whose Orca plugin file is a symlink (per-file
dotfile managers) failed the regular-file check and got a write through the
link, and a reload, on every spawn. The config-dir and relay installs now skip
the write when the resolved target already has Orca's bytes; when stale they
behave as before. Only the per-source overlay keeps the regular-file check,
since a link there mirrors a user entry. Installers also skip the write inside
a guarded block rather than returning early, so later install steps still run.

* test(opencode): skip the plugin symlink tests on Windows like their neighbours

Creating a file symlink on Windows needs Developer Mode or admin rights.

* test(opencode): stub fetch without a type assertion in the dispose host test
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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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Orca desktop app running agents in parallel worktrees, with the Orca mobile companion app in the corner

Features

Mobile Companion

Monitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere.

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Orca desktop with the mobile companion app

Parallel Worktrees

Fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner.

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Parallel worktree orchestration

Terminal Splits

Ghostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts.

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Terminal splits

Design Mode

Click 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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Embedded browser and Design Mode

GitHub & Linear, Native

Browse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch.

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GitHub and Linear task workflows in Orca

SSH Worktrees

Run agents on a beefy remote box with full file editing, git, and terminals — auto-reconnect and port forwarding included.

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Remote worktrees over SSH

Annotate AI Diffs

Drop comments on any diff line and ship them back to the agent — review, edit, and commit without leaving Orca.

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Annotate AI-generated diffs

Drag Files to Agents

VS Code's editor with autosave everywhere — drag files or images straight into an agent prompt.

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Drag files and images into an agent prompt

Orca CLI

Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

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Script Orca from the CLI

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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# macOS (Homebrew)
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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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Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.

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