STA-1716 reported that a packaged `orca serve` could become the single-instance owner after the desktop app exits, leaving Dock/Finder unable to restore a window — and that forcing a reopen made the headless process hydrate a renderer that interrupted and DUPLICATED live agent sessions. Verification against main found every criterion already fixed (#8646 for desktop promotion and the fail-closed CLI, #12212 for duplicate serve activation, #12574 + #9729 for the resume/ownership guards). The genuine gap was criterion 6: the ticket's own automated regression never existed. An existing reliability gate asserted PTY identity survives promotion, but nothing asserted what the incident was actually about — how many agents the promoted renderer resumes. This adds that coverage: a unit/service-level journey that drives the real single-instance lock, activation gate, settle and focus paths, then runs the real resume logic against a store seeded as a renderer freshly mounted inside the serve process, asserting zero duplicate resumes. `settleServeDesktopActivation` moved from `index.ts` into its own module with identical semantics, so the test drives the real decision rather than re-implementing it — the earlier repro had to mirror that logic locally, which is the "test passes without running the scenario" failure mode. Proven to be a real oracle: breaking each guard individually turns it red, and reverting the pre-#12574 pane form reproduces the incident exactly (two duplicate `codex resume` tabs).
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.










