Adversarial review found the veto's own success path could not complete against the daemon it exists to protect. Preserving routed through holdDaemonAdoptionLease(), which opens a hello — the exact operation a wedged daemon cannot answer — so it threw, aborted initDaemonPtyProvider, and left no spawner. restartDaemon() throws without one, so the user lost the documented Manage Sessions -> Restart remedy on top of having no daemon: strictly worse than the data loss being fixed. A still-listening endpoint means wedged, not gone, so keep a lease-free handle instead. The lease only cancels the adoption watchdog, which never fires on a daemon that owns sessions. Degraded mode likewise tolerates a lease and a session discovery it cannot complete. Three more from the same review: - The veto keyed on reason === 'failed_health_check', but a daemon that answered listSessions with 0 lands in that same branch and must stay replaceable. Key on liveSessionCount === null, which is what the option actually documents. - Zombies are not evidence of live work. A wedged daemon cannot reap, so its exited agents linger as <defunct> and would read as "still running" — a false positive correlated with the wedge itself. Enumerate through the process table's stat column and exclude them; sample twice so a resolver probe or health-check shell cannot masquerade as an agent. - Restore the "did anything answer?" log guard alongside the confirmed kill, so a daemon that self-retires before the kill is still announced. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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
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 0.0.42
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.
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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.










