Neil 77c60cc2ce fix(runtime): decide Antigravity readiness by where the caret sits, not what the screen says
The detector has been written five times and each version read the ready screen's text:
a line starting with the model name, an account row carrying an `@`, the banner as an
ordering anchor. The captured transcripts refute all three. Antigravity paints a
block-glyph logo down the left margin, so the identity, model and path rows share their
physical lines with it and none of them starts a line; `Gemini API key` has no `@` and
`AGY_CLI_HIDE_ACCOUNT_INFO=1` deletes the row outright; and the banner is printed once and
never reprinted. On real output the shipped rule was inverted — it refused a genuinely
ready screen and accepted the live `/model` picker, whose own model rows do start lines.

Replaying the captures through the main-process emulator at the grid they were recorded on
shows what actually separates the two. The composer is a framed box — a pane-wide rule,
then a row holding only the caret — and every dialog is drawn underneath it. On a ready
screen nothing follows the caret row; on the picker nine dialog rows do, and on the palette
seven. So the rule is positional and reads no product text at all: the last line with
content trims to exactly `>`, and the line above it is the composer's rule.

A bare `>` alone is not enough, which an earlier reading of the evidence got wrong: `/model`
is drawn in place below the composer, so the idle composer's own bare `>` is still on screen
while the picker owns it. The rule above the caret is what excludes that.

Unknowns fail closed. The four uncaptured dialogs, and accept-edits and plan mode (where the
composer carries a mode banner rather than a bare caret), all report not ready — a stalled
wait rather than a prompt typed into a live dialog.

Also fixes two replay faults that made the fixtures answer the wrong question: the pane now
replays at the capture's recorded geometry, since Antigravity positions rows with absolute
cursor moves and an 80-column emulator rebuilds a screen nobody saw; and the replay stops at
the CLI's own teardown, which every capture contains because the recorder had to stop `agy`
to end it. The full bytes still get one case, pinning that a pane whose `agy` has exited is
refused.

The hand-written five-line ready screen the first five attempts were tuned on is replaced by
the real capture's shape, and the fixture asserting a caret above the model row is deleted:
no real screen prints one.

The emulator route was evaluated first and is documented in the evidence file. It is the
right long-term layer but is not on the readiness path today — the only call site wired to it
runs solely when the tail is empty — and moving it there changes readiness for every agent.
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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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Orca desktop app running agents in parallel worktrees, with the Orca mobile companion app in the corner

Features

Mobile Companion

Monitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere.

iOS App Store · TestFlight · Android APK 0.0.48 · Docs →

Orca desktop with the mobile companion app

Parallel Worktrees

Fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner.

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Parallel worktree orchestration

Terminal Splits

Ghostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts.

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Terminal splits

Design Mode

Click 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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Embedded browser and Design Mode

GitHub & Linear, Native

Browse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch.

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GitHub and Linear task workflows in Orca

SSH Worktrees

Run agents on a beefy remote box with full file editing, git, and terminals — auto-reconnect and port forwarding included.

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Remote worktrees over SSH

Annotate AI Diffs

Drop comments on any diff line and ship them back to the agent — review, edit, and commit without leaving Orca.

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Annotate AI-generated diffs

Drag Files to Agents

VS Code's editor with autosave everywhere — drag files or images straight into an agent prompt.

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Drag files and images into an agent prompt

Orca CLI

Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

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Script Orca from the CLI

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 logo Claude Code   Codex logo Codex   Grok logo Grok   Cursor logo Cursor   GitHub Copilot logo GitHub Copilot   OpenCode logo OpenCode   MiMo Code logo MiMo Code   Amp logo Amp   OpenClaude logo OpenClaude   Antigravity logo Antigravity   Pi logo Pi   oh-my-pi logo oh-my-pi   Hermes Agent logo Hermes Agent   Devin logo Devin   Goose logo Goose   Auggie logo Auggie   Autohand Code logo Autohand Code   Charm logo Charm   Cline logo Cline   Codebuff logo Codebuff   Command Code logo Command Code   Continue logo Continue   Droid logo Droid   Kilocode logo Kilocode   Kimi logo Kimi   Kiro logo Kiro   Mistral Vibe logo Mistral Vibe   Qwen Code logo Qwen Code   Rovo Dev logo Rovo Dev   + any CLI agent


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Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux

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# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca

# Arch Linux (AUR) — or stably-orca-git to build from source
yay -S stably-orca-bin

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Developing

Want to contribute or run locally? See our CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

The relay that pairs the mobile app with a desktop host is also in this repository under cloud/, with a separate pnpm workspace and setup guide.

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License

Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.

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