Live capture of a reproduced case showed the frozen/overlapping tab is a cell-level merge INSIDE the renderer's buffer: the pre-hide frame (banner, prompt echo) bleeding through every blank cell of the restored final frame. The rendering stack was innocent — it faithfully painted a merged buffer. The hidden-output restore deliberately skips the destructive clear for alternate-screen snapshots to protect normal-buffer scrollback. But the snapshot's own ?1049h is a no-op on a pane that is already on the alternate screen, and the serialized frame skips blank cells entirely (cursor-forward jumps), so nothing ever erases the pre-hide frame. Fresh terminals enter the alt screen via ?1049h — which clears it — which is why the bug never reproduced in fresh windows. Fix: for alternate-screen snapshots, write \x1b[?1049h\x1b[2J\x1b[H before the snapshot data. \x1b[2J on the alt buffer clears only the alt screen; the normal buffer's scrollback (what the skip was protecting) is untouched. Verified live on the reproduced specimen: writing the same snapshot with this preamble repaired the pane pixel-perfectly. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
Orca
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 0.0.18
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 the QR code to join the community.
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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.
License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.









