Brennan Benson
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* feat(chat): read one saved row per subagent Adds the singular `subagent` journal block (one row per child, revised in place, with a plain-text twin for older clients) and teaches every reader to draw it: desktop and phone fold a turn's sibling rows into the existing "Ran N subagents" row, the client and off-page rosters name children from their own rows, the reopen pass settles a row a dead host left working, and the phone and worker-transcript wires bound it. No producer writes the block yet; that switch lands in the follow-up. * feat(chat): host writes one saved row per subagent Claude, Codex and Grok now only report child-work evidence. The host writes each subagent's row from its child record, so the chat row, strip and sidebar read one lifecycle. Deletes the shared subagent tracker, the per-agent rosters and their caps. An accepted Stop settles only the run it was sent to, provisionally, until that run reports its own ending. Work the host store has no room to record keeps the running-tasks strip and its Stop instead of reading as idle. * fix(chat): open subagent background flag, separate nested group ids, page window skips subagent rows - background is an open boolean so a later build's value never fails a chat load - a helper's own helpers fold under a groupId of their own, so the phone opens them apart - each subagent's own row rides along with the page window instead of counting as conversation * fix(chat): subagent row writer reads the live turn once, stop acks survive a failed batch - the row writer reads the journal's live turn at most once per change and only for a subagent with no saved, queued or in-flight row; a revision keeps its first scope - a background stop names each accepted task as its answer lands, so a stop-all batch that times out or fails part way still ends the runs it was answered for (Claude and Grok) - the strip's untargeted Stop rule lives in the shared view (offersStopAll); both strips inline it again; incomplete tracking no longer holds commands or rewind - clients admit a frame whose only change is incomplete tracking - drop the Claude stop's dead publish; the real-CLI stop test asserts the run's own ending - list the writer test with the real SQLite tests * fix(chat): a late Grok report never revives an ended helper; Codex keeps announced helpers - Grok: once a helper's run ended, a later progress or repeated spawn sends no live evidence, so its record and saved row stay ended after the next send retires the record; the test rig now retires finished records on each turn open, as the host does - Codex: past the bound, only a child that ran and ended is evicted, so an announced helper that has not started keeps its record, row, Stop and parent - cut: Codex parentTurnId (written, never read), the Claude identities' turn-end forwarding (call the corrections directly), the duplicate Grok outcome map - update stale comments that described the deleted producers * test(chat): Claude frames to saved row, kept Codex path and usage rules, agent ingestion exemption - a captured background Claude helper keeps its saved row working past its spawn result and the parent turn's end, through the real adapter, host and child records, until its own end - restore focused tests for the Codex root path, label trim and placeholder, usage before announcement and parent usage - the per-session live limit test uses tasks: subagents are exempt from it * fix(chat): incomplete tracking follows the refused children, and the strip's Stop reaches them - the host remembers which children the store refused for room, by handle; each leaves when a later report of it is admitted or it reports its own end, so incomplete clears on a truthful signal; the provider session's end still clears all, and past 512 a flag holds until then - a parent row the store refused counts every live child it reports as refused - with work no record lists, an untargeted strip Stop while no turn runs ends the agent through the idle sweep's stop; under a running turn it leaves the agent alone - the background Stop moves into its own module * fix(chat): the incomplete Stop is offered for every agent and decides inside its step - the strip offers the untargeted Stop for work no row lists whenever no turn runs, whatever untargeted stop the provider has (ACP agents, Codex before it proves terminal stops), since the host reaches it by ending the agent; never under a running turn - the Stop reads whether work is unlisted and whether a turn runs inside its own step, after the listed stops land, so a wake-up turn opened meanwhile is never ended - Codex executions past the bound evict the oldest ended child, else the oldest never started - test the writer's unnamed-subagent label; qualify the writer's retry comment * refactor(chat): the subagent row writer joins the views with their records Drops the shared host-only row projection and its hook-server read: the writer's wiring reads the views every surface reads and the records they come from, and takes residency and the ending's basis from the record. * refactor(chat): Grok subagent evidence reads its ending through the one outcome map * refactor(chat): a subagent's group entry as one object * fix(chat): a background Stop with nothing listed asks the agent for no task stops So an agent with no stop route (an ACP agent the probe found none for) never refuses before the Stop ends the work no row lists. Tests: the unlisted case is untargeted and reads unlisted work inside the step; the repeat-press rig lists the task its Stops reach; reflow the writer header. * test(chat): a nested helper's saved parent; describe how incomplete tracking clears * fix(chat): a closed session claims no Stop; a helper's row follows its own running work - a session close Orca proves is loss of contact, not a Stop the CLI accepted: Claude no longer ends what still ran as stopped, so the host settles it unknown and its row reads unverifiable, as before this stack; stop-acknowledged comes only from a Stop the CLI accepted - a helper that finished while work it started still runs is written working, by the strip's own rule; once that work ends, or the session ends, it reads its own ending again - the CLI starting a completed helper again under the same spawn call is the helper waking when its work ends: the decoder reports it as a restart, so its one row revises in place and ends with its real duration; after any other ending such a start is still read as late - tests from a captured 2.1.280 frame order; item 4 Stops pin their stop-acknowledged basis * refactor(chat): drop the unused Stop basis on a child's own ending Only the acknowledged-Stop edge writes that basis now; reflow the decoder header. * fix(chat): an older history page keeps a turn's subagent ordinals and row A page now reaches back to the first sibling of each subagent group it holds part of, at most one more page of conversation, so loading the older page no longer renumbers same-named helpers or moves (and closes) their folded row.
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
Muse
DeepSeek Harness
ZCode
OpenCode
MiMo Code
Amp
OpenClaude
Antigravity
Pi
oh-my-pi
Hermes Agent
Devin
Goose
Auggie
Autohand Code
Charm
Cline
CodeBuddy
Codebuff
Freebuff
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
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
- Android: Download APK · Install guide
Community & Support
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WeChat: Scan to join the Orca community WeChat group 11.
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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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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.
Signed Builds
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License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.