Brennan Benson
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Fixes the two defects a live Windows run found in #10770's stale-account detection, which together made it a no-op on the reporter's platform. 1. The startup sweep fired once during hydration, before any PTY was bound, so getLiveCodexSessionPtyIds found nothing, returned early and never retried — the prompt never appeared after an app restart. It now arms off real PTY binds with a bounded per-PTY ladder (300/1500/4000ms), keyed on the layout binding that every bind path rewrites rather than on a point in time. 2. Windows reports the DEEPEST process in the PTY tree, so an Orca launcher Codex pane running a subagent read as "claude" and was filtered out before the stale-account registry was ever consulted — no card on switch, none from the sweep. Eligibility now falls back to tab.launchAgent, deliberately paired with a foreground that can only be a deeper agent or an unresolved wrapper, so a pane where the user exited Codex back to a shell is never marked. Four further defects found in review: a HIGH dead-keyboard regression where the widened predicate marked a Codex tab running less/vim/ssh; a restored-reattach bind site with zero coverage; a retry-ladder rung collapse where one pane's timer burned another's rung; and a thrown sweep that permanently stranded every pane parked on a later rung (that one introduced by the fix for the third). Live-validated in a real Orca dev build: all five cases pass, including the less/vim pane getting no card and typing fine, two worktrees prompting with independent per-PTY timings (741ms / 658ms after their binds, no rung collapse), and the eligibility module returning all 14 matrix cases correctly including the Windows claude.exe subagent shape. Bind-to-card ~0.66s, leaving ~3.3s of ladder unused. Not verified: the real Windows process tree (macOS fixtures only) — a Windows re-run of the original T5/W4 cases is still required before #10770 lands. Known and out of scope: a HOST account switch marks and mutes live SSH remote panes. Pre-existing (base filtered purely on isCodexForegroundProcess with no lane check) but this PR widens its blast radius via the launchAgent fallback; needs a follow-up gating markLiveCodexSessionsForRestart on the selection lane. This PR's own mechanism is safe there — remote panes are never written to the pane-account registry, verified on disk.
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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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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.
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Continue
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Rovo Dev
+ any CLI agent
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Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.