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Three defects, one shape: a probe that enumerates PTYs or resolves a pane was standing in for a question that is not about panes at all. `worktree rm` destroyed a live structured worker. `killAllProcessesForWorktree` sweeps the renderer graph, the provider session list and the local pty-registry, and a structured session is registered on none of them — so all three counted zero, nothing errored, and removal deleted the checkout out from under a running provider child, which kept running with its `cwd` gone while the dispatch still reported the worker live and exact. A fourth sweep now asks what the other three cannot: membership by `location.workspaceId`, which covers a plain chat session as well as a dispatched worker, and liveness by the same `live`/`unverifiable`/`exited` observation the rest of the structured surface uses. It REFUSES a destructive removal rather than auto-closing, on the same bargain and the same `--force` escape hatch as the unstopped-PTY gate — this is the verb that deletes a user's work, and a running agent is exactly what they would want to be told about. Force closes the sessions properly instead of orphaning a child. Best-effort reconciliation callers are excluded: they repair state, delete nothing, and must never be failed closed. Twelve coordinator verbs failed for a structured worker running as itself. `isLiveTerminalHandle` validated `ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE` with `terminal.show`, a PTY verb whose leaf lookup misses for a session that never had a pane; the pane remint that would have recovered it needs `ORCA_PANE_KEY`, which a structured child deliberately does not carry, so every one of them died on `no_active_sender_terminal` — including the ones the worker's own dispatch preamble tells it to run. The identity question gets its own probe, `terminal.resolveIdentity`: a handle and a boolean and nothing writable. `terminal.show` still refuses a structured handle, because synthesising ptyId/leafId/paneRuntimeId would hand every public terminal verb something that looks writable and is not. The PTY half is byte-for-byte today's check, `getLiveLeafForHandle` included, so its `rendererGraphEpoch` re-check still runs — that check is the whole reason the sender is validated at all, and a cheaper probe would have quietly started passing stale post-reload handles. A host that predates the method answers `method_not_found` and the client falls back to `terminal.show`, which is correct for that host: one without the identity probe has no structured workers to miss. `dispatch --inject` reported `no_agent_detected` for a structured worker, because `isTerminalRunningAgent` reaches `getLiveLeaf`, throws, and the catch returns false. A structured session IS the agent; there is no foreground process to recognise, so it answers before the PTY probes rather than through them. Also: a Run whose coordinator is structured now gets its `run:` mail. Both lanes declined and neither logged — the PTY lane because the owner is structured, the structured lane because the mailbox was not `dispatch:` — so each half believed the other owned it. The PTY lane's reasoning (a coordinator blocks in `check --wait`, where a waiter preempts pointer delivery) does not transfer: a structured coordinator is a chat session whose turn ends. Its `run:` deliveries take the `hasOutstandingRunDelivery` gate the PTY lane applies for exactly that mailbox, and only for that mailbox. The test that would have caught the twelve drives the CLI with `ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE=structworker_…` and no `--from`. Every existing orchestration CLI test passes `--from` explicitly, so the resolver a real worker goes through was never exercised — which is why the suite stayed green while the preamble failed on its first line. Two files crossed their line ceiling and are split rather than waived: `worktree-teardown.ts` sheds its two PTY-surface sweeps and the deadline arithmetic they share, and `orchestration.test.ts` — which sat exactly on 800 — sheds the two caller-identity suites this change rewrote.
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
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 0.0.47 · 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 8. Group 8 may be full; if so, scan the Group 9 QR code instead.
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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.
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.
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.