Neil
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A design council (Opus, Grok, GPT-5.6-Sol) reviewed the merged runner after it took eleven review rounds to land. All three reached the same conclusion: the invocation half is sound, the environment/probe half is not, and every round had been debugging the second one. The finding that settled it, from Opus: `environmentResolved` had **54 references, all in tests and the runner itself. Not one production reader.** The safety mechanism the strict default existed for was never wired to anything, so all 19 degrading sites reported absence with full confidence anyway -- #9725 live at every one, under comments claiming it was handled. Two of those comments say so out loud; I wrote them. Root cause, in one line: every knob existed only because a failed probe was fatal. So it no longer is. - `allowDegradedEnvironment` and `WslGuestEnvironmentUnavailableError` are gone. A missing login PATH is a fact in the result, not an exception. That deletes 23 opt-outs, six catch-and-remap blocks, the transient/rejected cooldown split, `probedWithBudget`, and the 1.5x re-probe heuristic -- none of which had a reason to exist once the case stopped throwing. - `lane` + `allowDegradedEnvironment` collapse into `loginPath: 'none' | 'preferred'`. 19 of 23 sites passed the opt-out, and two said in comments that they did not want the login PATH at all: the flag had become the `'none'` the union was missing. - The `interactive` lane is deleted. It had zero production callers and kept ~30 lines of fence plumbing alive for tests only. Net -98 production lines; the runner itself sheds 86 for 38. Also carries three fixes from the W3 orphan-PR sweep I had not done: - `WSL_UTF8=1` in the runner. My relay migration deleted the only place setting it, so wsl.exe's own error text arrived UTF-16LE and read as NUL-riddled. A regression I introduced. Credit: #9010 (Chang-Jin-Lee). - `GITLAB_HOST` is now named in WSLENV, so a ported self-hosted host actually crosses into a distro-routed glab (#12557). Credit: #12558 (makoto-developer). - The WSL skill-setup command pipes into `sh` instead of `eval "$(...)"`, whose nested quoting produced `word unexpected (expecting "in")` (#14292). Credit: #14785 (innocarpe).
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.
Download Orca
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
OpenCode
MiMo Code
Amp
OpenClaude
Antigravity
Pi
oh-my-pi
Hermes Agent
Devin
Goose
Auggie
Autohand Code
Charm
Cline
Codebuff
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 or join TestFlight
- Android: Download APK 0.0.44 · 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 7. If it is full, use group 8.
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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.
Signed Builds
Windows code signing sponored/provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.
License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.