Brennan Benson 321e2cf0ba fix(mobile): background-mount never-mounted terminals on subscribe so they don't render blank (STA-1840)
A mobile terminal.subscribe to a tab the desktop never mounted this session —
a workspace the desktop isn't currently showing, a cold-activation-deferred tab
(#8597), or a cold-parked tab — has no attached PTY, so the runtime has no
headless emulator and the initial snapshot is empty. The mobile terminal then
renders blank (repro: on the phone, scroll to an old workspace whose terminals
the desktop unmounted; they stay blank).

When a mobile subscribe hits an empty snapshot (or resolves no PTY), the runtime
now asks the renderer to background-mount that tab so the PTY attaches and the
live data stream — already subscribed on that path — delivers its output.

A never-mounted workspace has no renderer-graph leaf, so its terminals are
surfaced to mobile via synthetic pty:<ptyId> handles that carry no real UI
tabId. The runtime passes the ptyId through the mount request and the renderer
resolves the owning tab from the persisted tab model (resolveTerminalTabIdForPtyId),
falling back to a whole-worktree background mount if it cannot. The request is
idempotent for already-mounted tabs and never unmounts a live pane, so the worst
case is the same blank as before — no regression.

Validated on an iOS simulator with a two-workspace desktop: opening the
workspace the desktop was not showing rendered a fully blank terminal without
the fix and the live shell prompt with it.

Tests: runtime mount-request gating (real-tab / pty-form / no-ptyId / unknown),
subscribe-handler empty-snapshot-vs-content, and the ptyId->tabId resolver; all
608 RPC method tests pass.
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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 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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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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Drop comments on any diff line and ship them back to the agent — review, edit, and commit without leaving Orca.

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Orca CLI

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

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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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yay -S stably-orca-bin

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