Brennan Benson 883b768bc7 A chat never starts writing a conversation a terminal is still writing, and restored panes respect open chats (#30930)
* fix(native-chat): one ownership index with link roles, and a chat refuses to start while a terminal writes its conversation

Each chat link now carries its role (head or earlier) and key; Session History names
the chat continuing a conversation first, duplicate adoption checks only head links in
both the pre-commit check and the store transaction, and terminal resumes stay refused
exactly as before. The terminal-writer check now also runs inside acquireOwner before
the spawn, refusing with the typed pre-spawn reason conversationOpenInTerminal.

* fix(native-chat): hold a terminal start Orca issues until its terminal reports it

An in-memory registry of managed terminal starts per conversation, registered in the
same step as the resume admission (terminal.send with a resume command, createTerminal
with a command), bound to the PTY execution that runs it, and ended only when that
terminal's hooks report the conversation or the execution is gone. A chat's agent
start refuses while an entry may hold its conversation.

* fix(terminal): an automatic pane restore never resumes a conversation an open chat continues

Resume recipes built from a pane's saved facts (cold restore, deferred and late reattach,
sleeping wake, host mobile materialization) carry resumeOrigin 'saved'. The execution host
decides before any command is issued: while an open chat continues the conversation, or a
chat may be writing it, the pane starts its plain shell with the started-fresh notice and
its saved claim is forgotten; with unreadable records only a saved restore is refused and
its record kept. An admitted resume registers its managed start in the same step, so the
chat's agent start refuses until the terminal reports it or exits. Clearing the last saved
record now reaches disk.

* Fix saved terminal resume ownership and effective launch results

* Preserve conversation case and clear refused cold restore identity

* fix: publish effective terminal launch results on attachment

* fix: preserve terminal launch callback and candidate ownership

* fix: keep existing terminal attachments observational

* fix: consolidate terminal launch imports

* test: document snapshot runtime fixture boundary

* fix: preserve terminal launch identity types

* fix: accept reattach payload policy sessions

* fix: preserve terminal result validation contracts

* refactor: separate terminal create contract

* test: document partial terminal runtime fixtures

* test: align sleeping resume store fixture

* Fix terminal create type contracts

* fix: return the terminal main started to its waiting view

* fix: register reattached terminals before publishing their handles

* Check unavailable-resume test fixture types

* Complete sidebar resume test store fixture

* test: bound saved resume ownership and refusal work

* Settle refused saved resume claims from actual launch results

* Fix saved resume test type contracts

* test(e2e): capture exact terminal parking diagnostics

* test: verify parked terminal with fresh host inventory

* Consolidate agent session imports in remote terminal transport

* Clarify terminal conversation refusal guidance

* Admit note-only saved conversations without hiding live writers

* Retain terminal writer proofs through final admission
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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 · Android APK · 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.

Docs →

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   Muse logo Muse   DeepSeek Harness logo DeepSeek Harness   ZCode logo ZCode   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   CodeBuddy logo CodeBuddy   Codebuff logo Codebuff   Freebuff logo Freebuff   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


Install

Desktop — macOS, Windows, Linux

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.


Community & Support

  • Discord: Join the community on Discord.

  • Twitter / X: Follow @orca_build for updates and announcements.

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  • Feedback & Ideas: We ship fast. Missing something? Request a new feature.

  • Privacy: See the privacy & telemetry docs for what anonymous usage data Orca collects and how to opt out.

  • Show Support: Star this repo to follow along with our daily ships.


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.

Orca contributors

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Signed Builds

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License

Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.

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Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.
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