Brennan Benson
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* fix(skills): stop a project's own skill copy driving global freshness A pristine global install plus a drifted copy inside a work directory showed Settings -> Computer Use as amber "Needs attention", with the copy labelled "may be modified ... Remove it if you want Orca to update this skill", while the same page said "Computer Use is ready" and the update command correctly printed "All global skills are up to date". No user action could clear it. Orca's updater only ever passes --global, so a copy a project owns has no remedy by design. Two defects made it drive the global verdict anyway: - locationChip tested byte status before topology, so an unrecognized repo-scope placement returned early and never reached its 'in-a-repo' case. Because SKIPPED_REASON_PRIORITY ranks unrecognized above in-a-repo, the summary sentence was wrong too. - isSkillCopyNeedingAttention excepted plugin-cache but not repo-scope. Stated by scope rather than by byte status: an outdated or unreadable project copy is as far outside the global updater's reach as an unrecognized one, so pinning only the reported status would leave the same bug reachable through another. Chip precedence is now explicit -- a read failure outranks ownership so that rule cannot hide a real fault, and ownership outranks byte status. Ownership suppresses the group, never a location's visibility: a project copy is still listed whenever another placement earns the row. The badge predicate deliberately omits the shared helper's outdated carve-out, so a non-eligible outdated copy stays amber. Collapsing the two into one predicate would flip that to green while the dialog still shows its reinstall row, so the distinction is preserved and pinned by a regression guard. Eligibility needed no change: it already filters to convergent placements. * fix(skills): keep a project copy from explaining a global skill's skip Review follow-up. The chip and the group no longer treat a project-owned copy as global drift, but three surfaces still read it as one: - skippedReason derived its one sentence from the highest-priority chip among a group's locations, with 'in-a-repo' ranked above 'duplicate', 'external-link', 'broken-link' and above the no-chip case that hands over the reinstall command. A repo-scope copy can no longer earn a group, so whenever it won it explained a skip it had no part in — and swallowed the one runnable remedy. SkillLocationRow now carries whether the update judged it, and only judged rows explain. That also covers the scan-limit sentinel, which is repo-scope and chips 'inaccessible'. - hasSkillCopyNeedingAttention counted project copies as the presence that makes a plugin-cache read failure a skill's problem, while the status function skipped them — the disagreement the two exist to prevent. - The nudge mixed project copies into its dismissal fingerprint, so re-checking out a repo re-raised a nudge the user had already dismissed. plugin-cache is untouched: it stays on the judged side everywhere, because updating the plugin is a remedy a project copy does not have.
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 0.0.36
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: If group 5 is full, you can join group 6.
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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
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License
Orca is free and open source under the MIT License.