A remote-paired terminal tab flickered several times per second between the agent-generated title with a running status, and the plain title "Terminal" with "Done - Claude" in the sidebar.
Two writers owned the same state. For remote panes the client parses agent status out of the terminal byte stream, while every host tab snapshot rebuilt the mirrored tab WITHOUT the client's generated title and re-decided status by comparing timestamps taken on two different machines. The host also treated a neutral live title ("Terminal") as proof the agent had finished, and re-stamped that conclusion with the pane's last-output time — so it advanced with every output byte and always looked newer. Neither writer could ever win.
This removes the second writer rather than trying to arbitrate two clocks: the client is authoritative for panes whose status it parses (only while attached, released on teardown), the host no longer invents a finished state from a neutral title, and the generated title is carried through snapshot rebuilds. The client was chosen as the authority because the host snapshot format carries no generated title at all — making the host authoritative would permanently lose generated titles on paired clients.
Purely local and plain SSH panes are structurally unaffected: they have only one writer.
Verified with a reproduction that is red on main (frames show done -> working -> done with the label flipping on every publication) and green with the fix. Independent review additionally found and fixed a defect where a superseded pane's late cleanup could permanently strip a live pane's authority, reinstating the very flap being fixed.
Deferred follow-up STA-3455: host `blocked`/interactive-prompt states can still pierce the fence and fall back to cross-machine timestamps; fixing that properly needs an origin marker on the status entry.
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 0.0.37
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.










