Brennan Benson
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#8522 stopped one-shot subagents from squatting as idle rows, but named background agents (Workflow/orchestration/ultracode lanes and agent-teams teammates) still piled up permanent "Idle - <type>" child rows for the rest of the session — the reported regression (11 idle rows under an "Orchestration Messages" pane, all idle 3-6h after finishing). Root cause, confirmed against live hook captures (claude 2.1.210): named agents get teammate-shaped ids (a<name>-<hex>) AND now appear in Stop's `background_tasks` as `type: "teammate"` entries whose status stays "running" forever — even after the agent finished. The old code read that shape as a "resumable teammate", so SubagentStop only marked it idle and the fold never reaped it (a present teammate task kept hasTeammateTypedTask true). The rows never left. Fix: the roster now tracks only WORKING children. - SubagentStop removes the child outright (teammate-shaped or not) — it is the reliable finish signal; the teammate task's "running" status is not. - TeammateIdle removes by name as the fallback when a SubagentStop is lost. - A lead Stop's background_tasks still reaps unlisted children: hyphen-free one-shots always, and teammate-shaped rows once a complete inventory shows no teammate-typed task at all. A live named agent whose id never appears is kept only while a teammate-typed task is still present (the done-gate). - Hydration drops persisted idle snapshots so a restart can't re-pile them. Verified live in a dev Electron instance driving a real Claude TUI that spawns four named background agents: pre-fix the pane resolves to done with four persistent "Idle - <probe>" rows; post-fix each row disappears the instant its agent finishes and the roster drains to empty (done, zero child rows). Tests: roster + row-lifecycle + hook-listener suites rewritten to the working-only semantics, grounded in the captured 2.1.210 hook stream (126 passing). Typecheck + oxlint clean.
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.
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Features
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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Rovo Dev
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