terminal read --screen (STA-4792) (#15380)
* feat(terminal): read the rendered screen with `terminal read --screen` (STA-4792) `terminal read` returns accumulated pty output with escape sequences stripped. That is the right answer for "what happened over time" and the wrong one for "what is on screen": any program that repaints a line comes back as stacked fragments, so one `clear` typed key by key reads as `cclclecleaclear`, and a prompt that draws a space by moving the cursor loses it. Nothing in the output said which question had been answered, so it was used as rendering evidence and produced false conclusions. The runtime already knew how to render — it replays the byte stream through a headless emulator — but only as a fallback for blank reads, alternate screen, and never-attached ptys. A normal attached terminal never reached it. `--screen` asks for it directly. Every read now reports its source, which also surfaces the pre-existing snapshot fallback that until now swapped rendered lines into an ordinary read with no indication. `screen-unavailable` distinguishes "asked for a screen, none could be rendered, here is the stream" from a stream the caller asked for, and an absent source means the host predates the field. Because an older host strips the unknown param and answers with its ordinary read, `--screen` against one fails with that explanation rather than passing the stream off as a screen. `--screen` and `--cursor` are mutually exclusive: a screen is the current frame and has nothing behind it to page. * refactor(terminal): stamp the screen source where rendered lines enter the read Inferring it from tail array identity worked but made a load-bearing contract out of reference equality; any later path spreading the read would silently mislabel. Rendered lines only enter through one builder, so it stamps there and anything still unlabelled is the stream.
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
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.
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Works with any CLI agent — if it runs in a terminal, it runs in Orca.
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