Jinwoo Hong 7c119465b0 fix(relay): define restart-safe by the cell runtime, and refuse waves without headroom (#24259)
* fix(relay): let a same-cap drain finish when only unplaceable hosts remain

The c28 canary on 2026-10-01 drained the cell to zero live connections, but four
hosts with no free slot anywhere kept redialling and held director leases on it,
so the restart-safe wait timed out and left the cell isolated and empty.

The drain wait now also passes once the runtime has carried nothing for a
sustained quiet window while a small, capped number of leases remain, and logs
the escape. Apply modes also refuse a cell whose hosts exceed 80% of the free
slots on the other general cells, so a wave cannot strand hosts in the first place.

Claude-Session: ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010

* fix(relay): define restart-safe by the cell runtime, not director leases

Replaces the opt-in stranded-host escape with a corrected definition. A
restart is safe when the cell runtime carries nothing live and no migration
is open, sustained for the drain pace window. Director activity leases lag
hosts that already left or cannot be placed, so they are reported in a
progress line and the verified result instead of blocking the restart.

The same-cap drain passes its existing pace window. The headroom script is
added to the trusted evidence code paths with the other production scripts.

Claude-Session: ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010

* fix(relay): print stranded director counts on every restart-safe sample

Each restart-safe poll now prints its sample count and the director's
restart-blocking leases, request units, reserved remainder, and migrations
under `stranded`; the verified line carries the same object. Open migrations
still block because each is pinned to the cell incarnation a restart replaces.

Claude-Session: ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010

* fix(relay): require the pace window for every live restart-safe wait

Pre-auth and total connections no longer reset the restart-safe window:
on drained c28 they flickered with unauthenticated redials in a third of
samples, which a restart does not lose. They stay in the progress output.

Every live restart-safe call must now pass --pace-window-ms. The capacity
job and staging proof drain unpaced, so they pass the production 300000 ms
window, and the calls that relied on the 180000 ms default get 480000 ms.

Headroom free slots now follow the director's placement rule: the admission
pause minus the larger of observed and enforced units, minus outstanding
control reservations.

Claude-Session: ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010
2026-09-30 22:25:36 -04:00
2026-09-26 20:50:46 +00:00
2026-05-04 20:42:03 -07:00
2026-03-16 22:27:51 -07:00
2026-03-28 10:19:14 -07:00

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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.

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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.

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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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Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.

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