Brennan Benson
5aef758fb0
Two problems in the host-side registry.
Retirement fired for every create, including names the user typed. The
creature pool contains ordinary words — orca, runner, sole, molly, oscar — so
typing a retired 'nautilus' silently produced directory and branch
'nautilus-2' and burned the name for good. Creates now carry an explicit
nameWasGenerated flag; both the skip and the retire are gated on it, and it
defaults to false so CLI and automation callers are unaffected.
The registry was keyed by repo id, but both readers already discarded the id
and unioned by the cwd collision key, because the collision this prevents is
on the path. Keying by that namespace directly fixes several things at once:
entries no longer orphan when a repo is removed, remove/re-add no longer loses
every retirement for an unchanged path, the missing removeProject prune is
moot, and the backfill promise no longer merges into only the first repo id it
saw. The feature is unreleased, so no migration is needed.
Also:
- Memoize the collision key. It runs computeWorktreePath, which for a WSL repo
is a blocking execFileSync('wsl.exe') whose failure path is uncached, and
the previous code recomputed it once per repo on every create and every
listRetiredNames call.
- Drop retiredNamesByRepo from the worktree list result. It had no readers and
leaked onto 'orca worktree list --json', and its awaited backfill sat on CLI
selector resolution. The dedicated listRetiredNames RPC keeps its consumers.
- Make the three RuntimeStore methods required. RuntimeStore is file-private
with two constructors, so the 'older embedders' the optionality protected do
not exist, and the optional chain silently returned no retirements.
- Revert the unrelated forceDeleteBranch rewrite, and make room under the
file's line budget by extracting the create-args mapping instead.
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 0.0.42
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.