* fix(mobile): wall hosts that cannot serve the page instead of opening native screens * refactor(mobile): drop the native-route state and the shell fallback prop; unknown routes say unavailable * test(mobile): read the nullable page route refusal in its policy test * refactor(mobile): every build is the OTA shell; drop the native/OTA build switch The owner retired the native-screen fallback with no emergency native build, so EXPO_PUBLIC_MOBILE_SHELL, mobileShellBuildKind, shellSwitchDecision, the Metro cache-key suffix and both release workflows' shell input go. Every host route mounts the shell; a route naming no screen the shell could open gets the existing refusal screen instead of a native screen. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_6cea92f6 * refactor(mobile): delete native screens the OTA shell no longer reaches With every build the OTA shell, these native siblings run nowhere: the native-executed closure (index.js plus every non-web route) does not reach them, and the page resolves their .web siblings. Each .web sibling takes the plain name, its web-overrides entry goes, and the native-only rich Markdown editor and Mermaid WebView generators and their outputs go with them. Kept: native siblings the node test suite still renders shared screens through (terminal WebView, browser frame path, clipboard, dictation, media picker, live input, snapshot budget, input styles). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_6cea92f6 * test(mobile): drop the phone-preview comparison the deleted native sibling held Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_6cea92f6 * refactor(mobile): drop the dead web route, flag-era comments and the one-value shell kind The host route files no longer switch, so their comments say what they do now: a route naming no screen shows the unavailable screen. app/h/[hostId]/web.tsx duplicated index.tsx and nothing linked to it, so it and its stack entry go (the bundle sweep is re-measured: 77 scripts at 15 routes). Diagnostics print the bridge protocol on its own instead of a shell kind that has one value. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_6cea92f6 * refactor(mobile): one host for the rich editor, plain Text, and drop two unused native deps MobileSelectableText was react-native's Text, so callers use Text. The rich Markdown editor's host-facing seams (messages, URL prompt, keyboard inset) are required now that the page is its only host; the WebView defaults go. Comments that described deleted native components are rewritten, and expo-image-manipulator and react-native-uitextview leave package.json and the lockfile. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_6cea92f6 * feat(mobile): draw the host Accounts screen from the desktop's page Accounts was the last host screen the shell still drew natively, so its changes needed a phone build. It is now a page route like Tasks: the screen moves to src/accounts/MobileAccountsScreen.tsx, accounts.web.tsx renders it on the page, and accounts.tsx mounts the shell for it. What React Native Web needed: Alert.alert is a no-op there, so the reset confirmation, its outcome and a failed account switch are ConfirmModal drawers (ConfirmModal can now drop Cancel for a notice); Back goes through the route handoff, which pops the shell's stack; and the reset idempotency key is built from getRandomBytes, since randomUUID needs a secure context the iOS custom scheme is not. edit.tsx edits the phone's own pairing and never renders on the page, so the route manifest leaves it out and the page's host stack does not declare it. The script sweep is re-measured for the 14-route tree. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * fix(accounts): answer a same-offer Codex reset retry with its recorded outcome; mobile mirrors the desktop The desktop keeps no client journal for a reset credit: the host's ledger owns the attempt. A remote client that lost a reply and retried the same offer under a new key was refused with "already attempted" (or "unknown outcome" while the provider call was unresolved), which is why the phone carried its own durable journal to replay the old key. The coordinator now answers a request for an offer an earlier key already claimed as that attempt: the settled outcome, the running attempt, or a resume of the pending one under its original key. A different offer for the account is still refused while an outcome is unknown, so nothing can spend twice. The reply shape is the one a same-key replay always had, so installed clients with their journal read it unchanged. With that, the Accounts page sends a fresh key per attempt like the desktop and keeps nothing on the phone: the AsyncStorage journal, its client singleflight and the retry-record warnings are deleted, and the journal-resume recording goes with them. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * fix(accounts): resume an account's unresolved Codex reset when the retry names a newer offer Review follow-ups: - Host: after an unknown provider outcome the usage refresh moves the offer, so a retry names a newer one. The coordinator now answers it as the account's unresolved attempt (resumed under its own key and scope), as the desktop's consumeCurrent does, instead of refusing forever. One ledger lookup finds own key, offer claimant, then unresolved attempt. - Mobile: a reply is matched on target, account and account revision, not the offer, so the resumed attempt's scope is accepted. - The key is minted inside requestCodexResetCredit from randomV4Uuid, the session helper moved to src/platform/random-v4-uuid.ts. - RefreshControl goes; the header refresh stays. ConfirmModal's onConfirm is optional for an OK-only notice. - Stale journal comments and the mobile docs line are corrected. - The edit.tsx page exclusion is dropped from this PR; the script sweep is re-measured for 15 routes. - Root oxlint: escape the apostrophe; zod v4 strictObject. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * fix(mobile): secure UUID fallback from expo-crypto; pin reset retry routing - randomV4Uuid never falls back to Math.random: without crypto.randomUUID it builds the v4 UUID from ExpoCrypto.getRandomBytes, as the old reset key did. Tests get Node's secure bytes for expo-crypto from the setup file, since the native module has no Node build. - Host tests: a new offer after a settled attempt spends again rather than replaying, and a retry naming a newer offer joins a resumed attempt in flight (one provider call, original key). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * chore: restore main's bytes for files the merge's pre-commit format touched The merge commit's lint-staged run reformatted 27 files this PR does not change. Committed without the hook so they match origin/main exactly. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * test(mobile): stand in for expo-crypto with a Node alias, not a setup-file mock Anti-slop forbids module mocking outside test files. The vitest config now aliases expo-crypto to a faithful Node implementation of the names shared code reaches; a test file's own mock still wins. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb * docs(mobile): match the bridged-parity comments to the measured 795-golden tally Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb
Orca Mobile
React Native companion app for Orca. Monitor worktrees, view terminal output, and send commands from your phone.
Local development uses two processes:
- Orca desktop/Electron from the repo root. This hosts the mobile WebSocket RPC server on port
6768. - Expo Metro from
mobile/. This serves the React Native app on port8081.
Unless a command says otherwise, run mobile app commands from the mobile/ directory.
The Node commands pnpm rpc:diff and pnpm rpc:record use a development dependency linked to ../src/packages/process-host. Mobile's install supplies the link, and tsx runs its source with the orca-source condition, so these command wrappers do not require a desktop install or package build. Keep that source directory in sparse checkouts. The recording suites still need root dependencies when they exercise desktop modules. The React Native app does not import this host package.
Prerequisites
- Node.js 24+
- pnpm
- Xcode and/or Android Studio tooling for simulator or device builds
- Expo Go on your phone, or a development client build when native modules are needed
- Phone and desktop on the same LAN when testing a physical phone
Start Desktop Orca
From the repository root:
pnpm install
pnpm dev
Confirm the mobile RPC server is listening:
lsof -nP -iTCP:6768 -sTCP:LISTEN
Restart pnpm dev after changing Electron main-process code. Metro hot reload only applies to the mobile JavaScript bundle.
Start The Mobile App
cd mobile
pnpm install
pnpm start
Scan the Expo QR code with your phone's camera on iOS, or Expo Go on Android.
For a native dev-client build:
pnpm exec expo run:android
pnpm exec expo run:ios
pnpm start --dev-client
Pair With Desktop Orca
- Open Orca desktop.
- Go to Settings > Mobile.
- Scan the pairing QR code from the mobile app.
- Confirm the mobile host endpoint is
ws://<desktop-ip>:6768.
For the Android emulator, use ws://10.0.2.2:6768. For a physical phone, use the desktop LAN IP, for example ws://192.168.0.179:6768.
If the phone has a stale host entry, remove it from the app and pair again.
Development Paths
Android Phone
- Install Expo Go from Google Play
- Run
pnpm start, scan QR with Expo Go - For native modules:
pnpm exec expo run:android - Run with
pnpm start --dev-client
iOS Simulator
- Install Xcode from the App Store
- Run
pnpm start --iosto open in iOS Simulator
Physical Phone Debugging
The phone can be inspected through the connected device tooling:
orca snapshot --json
orca click --element @e3 --json
orca fill --element @e1 --value "ls" --json
orca screenshot --json
Use snapshot first to find the current element refs, then click/fill those refs. After mobile file edits, Metro usually hot reloads automatically, but navigating out of and back into the session screen can be useful because it re-runs terminal.subscribe.
Terminal Streaming Repro Without A Phone
Use this when terminal output does not render on device and you need to split server streaming bugs from WebView/UI bugs:
cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64>
You can pass a worktree selector as the third argument:
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "path:/absolute/worktree/path"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "name:my-worktree"
The expected result includes:
streamSawMarker: true
readSawMarker: true
If this repro fails, debug the desktop runtime/PTY path before the mobile WebView. If it passes but the phone is blank, debug the session screen or TerminalWebView readiness/queueing path.
Terminal Color Repro Without A Phone
Use this when terminal colors disappear after switching tabs. Open a Claude Code terminal and at least one other terminal in the target worktree, then run:
cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/repro-terminal-colors.ts \
<deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"
The script captures terminal.subscribe snapshots in an A → B → A sequence and writes raw snapshots to mobile/terminal-color-repro/. If the two A snapshots have different sgrColor counts, the desktop snapshot changed during the switch. If they match, the ANSI color data is still present and the bug is in mobile replay/rendering.
Validation
Run these checks before committing mobile terminal changes:
cd mobile
pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
pnpm run check:tests-typecheck
pnpm lint
cd ..
pnpm typecheck:node
tsc --noEmit reads tsconfig.json, which excludes test files so Metro never bundles them.
tsconfig.test.json puts them back, and pnpm run typecheck:tests shows their errors in full.
check:tests-typecheck is the gate over it: a ratchet against tests-typecheck-baseline.txt, the
127 test files that do not typecheck yet. It fails when a file that checks today stops checking,
and when a baseline entry starts checking (prune it with
node scripts/check-tests-typecheck-ratchet.mjs --prune). The list may only shrink.
The same gate censuses the program first: every *.test.ts(x) on disk must be in it, or named in
the script's TESTS_OUTSIDE_PROGRAM with a reason. Without that, a test excluded from
tsconfig.test.json — or a Foo.test.tsx shadowed by a Foo.test.ts beside it, which a wildcard
include drops for the higher-priority extension — would leave the ratchet silently.
Protocol Version Compatibility
Mobile and desktop talk over a versioned protocol. Because mobile updates lag desktop by 24-48h via the App Store, both sides exchange version numbers on status.get so a genuinely incompatible combo can hard-block instead of silently misbehaving.
Constants live in two files (Metro can't resolve outside mobile/):
src/shared/protocol-version.ts—DESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION,MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSIONmobile/src/transport/protocol-version.ts—MOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION,MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION
Today all four are set so evaluateCompat always returns { kind: 'ok' } — nothing blocks. The wire format is in place to flip a switch when needed.
When to bump
Bump DESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION (and the mobile mirror MOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION when relevant) for breaking changes:
- Removed RPC method or required parameter that mobile uses
- Changed meaning (units, nullability) of an existing field mobile reads
- Changed encryption, framing, or auth handshake
Do not bump for additive changes:
- New RPC methods
- New optional fields on existing methods
- New event types in
terminal.subscribe
Set MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION (kill-switch) when desktop ships a change that requires a minimum mobile version to function safely. Same for MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION from the mobile side.
When a verdict is blocked, mobile/src/components/ProtocolBlockScreen.tsx renders a screen pointing the user at the update that clears it. When mobile is too old it opens the newest release if the installed app's update check knows one, otherwise the App Store (iOS) or GitHub Releases (Android). When desktop is too old it opens GitHub Releases.
To exercise the block screen locally: set MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION = 999 in mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.ts, rebuild, pair to any desktop. Revert before merging.
Mock Server
Develop the mobile app without a running Orca desktop instance:
pnpm mock-server # starts mock WebSocket server on port 6768
Connect from the app using endpoint ws://localhost:6768 and token mock-device-token.
Environment variables
MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1— serve the native-chat scenario (one live agent tab, empty transcript, image upload) instead of the default terminal fixtures.MOCK_CHAT_AGENT=omp— withMOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1, present an OMP tab and four decoded transcript messages, including a tool call and result, instead of the default Claude scenario. It deliberately omitstranscriptPathto exercise legacy-hook readability discovery; current OMP hooks may report a path.MOCK_SERVER_KEY_FILE— persist the server keypair across restarts so a paired device keeps its public-key pin. A missing or invalid file is re-keyed with a warning, which forces a re-pair.
Scenario control files
Read on every request, so behaviour can be flipped mid-session without a restart (a restart would re-key E2EE and force a re-pair). Write the mode into the file, or delete it for the default.
MOCK_SEND_MODE_FILE(defaultorca-mock-send-modein the system temporary directory) —accept(default) accepts the send,errorfails it withmobile_input_floor_unavailable, anything else reports the send as rejected.MOCK_TERMINAL_LIST_MODE_FILE(defaultorca-mock-terminal-list-modein the system temporary directory) —omitreturns an empty terminal list,otherreturns a list that omits the chat handle, anything else lists it.MOCK_TERMINAL_STREAM_MODE_FILE(defaultorca-mock-terminal-stream-modein the system temporary directory) —deadanswers a subscribe withsubscribedthenend(a gone PTY), which is what exercises the rearm bound and terminal prune; anything else streams normally.
Connecting to Real Orca
- Start Orca desktop with WebSocket transport enabled
- In Orca, go to Settings > Mobile and scan the QR code with this app
- The QR encodes the connection endpoint, device token, and TLS fingerprint
Project Structure
mobile/
├── app/ # Expo Router screens (file-based routing)
│ ├── _layout.tsx # Root layout with navigation stack
│ ├── index.tsx # Home screen — paired hosts list
│ └── pair-scan.tsx # QR code scanning screen
├── src/
│ ├── terminal/ # Terminal WebView and xterm bridge
│ └── transport/ # WebSocket RPC client
├── scripts/
│ ├── test-subscribe.ts # Desktop streaming repro without a phone
│ └── mock-server.ts # Standalone mock WebSocket server
└── assets/ # App icons and splash screen