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Three things the reviews changed, kept visible rather than quietly edited out. THREAT MODEL WAS WRONG IN THREE PLACES. Jump hosts are not the worst case — they are already safe: shouldUseSystemSshTransport branches on exactly the inputs resolveEffectiveProxy does, and attemptConnect returns after the system probe, so ProxyJump goes through OpenSSH and is verified. Agent forwarding was overstated (gated on the user's ForwardAgent). Credential theft was understated: any auth error counts as agent fallback, so a MITM walks the user to the password AND private-key passphrase prompts, and cachedPassword replays without prompting. The relay claim was backwards — the attacker owns their own machine; the real impact is the return direction, where they become the host our workspace trusts. TYPE SCOPING IS A DOWNGRADE VECTOR WITHOUT ALGORITHM ORDERING. This was the decision I flagged as least certain and asked to have argued both ways. OpenSSH is safe only because order_hostkeyalgs() puts known types first and RFC 4253 gives the client's order priority. ssh2 negotiates ed25519 first regardless, so an attacker who cannot forge the RSA key on file just presents ed25519 and gets a friendly first-contact prompt instead of a hard failure. Keep scoping, but set algorithms.serverHostKey to lead with the types on file — and add a sixth outcome for 'unknown type, known host', which must never read as first contact. SHIP THE DEFENCE BEFORE THE DIALOG. Startup restore fires eager connects for all targets in parallel with a 15s timeout while a prompt would live 120s; ephemeral VM targets present a new key every launch; paired-web connects run on the host desktop, so the dialog opens on someone else's screen. Phase 1 is therefore no modal at all: consult known_hosts and our store, match connects, unknown persists with accept-new semantics, mismatch and revoked hard-fail. That is the whole MITM defence with none of the migration risk. Also folded in, verified live against OpenSSH 10.2p1: the without-port fallback (bracketed lookup first, then bare, where the second pass can only yield match or unknown — otherwise a bare line plus a non-default port produces a spurious prompt); hashed entries hash the candidate form; multiple files union; a cert-authority line does not match a plain key. IPv6 and bracket parsing moved INTO scope — that is a parser requirement, not a scope call, and getting it wrong produces the prompt-training harm the design exists to avoid.
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.
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 0.0.42
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.