Jinwoo Hong 3eac4d93d3 fix(terminal): stop guessing that apps died and wiping their keyboard modes (#23584)
* fix(terminal): stop guessing that apps died and wiping their keyboard modes

The renderer wiped xterm's Kitty keyboard flags on every Ctrl+C, every live
reattach, and every Windows agent turn end, though the app usually survives.
xterm then encoded keys in legacy form while the pane mirror Orca's shortcut
policy reads still held the negotiated flags, so Cmd+C, Shift+Enter,
Option/Alt and IME commits disagreed with each other and with the app.

- Delete the Ctrl+C wipe, the ConPTY agent-idle wipe, and the mirror reset on
  every PTY exit (it also ran on unverified host-loss exits).
- Live reattach profiles no longer reset Kitty; every replay epilogue instead
  re-asserts the mirror's flags (pop-all, then the host-proven set; a bare pop
  while unproven), so a revealed xterm gets the live app's flags back.
- Route every renderer-originated mode write through one scanning writer so
  xterm and the mirror always parse the same bytes: confirmed-shell reset,
  hibernate, cold restore, and a full process-boundary ground at fresh spawn.
- Read Kitty flags as 0 where the protocol is withheld (ConPTY), since xterm
  ignores CSI u there but the mirror still scans it.
- The dashboard popout restores snapshot flags as bytes so its xterm agrees.

* style(terminal): separate the kitty restore builder from the pen reset

* fix(terminal): let the kitty mirror own the withheld-protocol rule

Review follow-ups for the stop-guessing change:

- The mirror takes a `kittyKeyboard` option from the xterm's advertisement
  and ignores CSI u when withheld, as xterm does, replacing a per-reader
  helper that any new reader could skip. Daemon/headless users keep the
  default.
- Replay epilogues are writers (`writeReplayEpilogue`,
  `writeReattachReplayReset`) that take the sync or async xterm writer, so
  nothing that looks like a builder mutates the mirror.
- An abandoned hidden restore re-asserts the mirror's kitty flags after the
  byte-gap reset: its discarded chunks were already scanned.
- Tests pin a non-zero host restore (epilogue ends `=31u`, mirror 31), a
  withheld pane staying at 0, and the restart-in-place ground landing after
  the mirror reset; the epilogue test helper is now an exact builder.

* refactor(terminal): one epilogue writer and one scanned ground per boundary

- Reattach callers write `chooseReattachReplayReset(...)` through
  `writeReplayEpilogue`, dropping the second writer from the session.
- Fresh spawn and cold restore rely on their scanned ground alone: it leaves
  the mirror known at 0 with a proven baseline, so the extra reset() was dead.
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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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Install

Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux

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

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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.

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