Jinwoo Hong 9afd1101ff fix(orchestration): stop minting and printing the dispatch capability (#23994)
* fix(orchestration): authorize worker reports without the dispatch capability

Worker lifecycle reports and questions no longer depend on the per-dispatch
capability token that lives only in the agent's conversation. The host now:

- ignores capability_hash/capability_revoked_at for authorization on every
  row and checks the exact worker process instead (ask gains that check);
- refuses a report whose calling terminal is provably another orchestration
  party (a Run coordinator or another Dispatch's worker), treating env that
  names no live pane here as absent;
- applies one worker-state rule locally and remotely: a stop in flight
  refuses, while stop_unknown and start_unknown accept and settle.

Minting and printing the flag are unchanged, so an older host and older
preambles keep working.

* fix(orchestration): stop minting the dispatch capability

Dispatches no longer mint a per-Dispatch token, and preambles, the bundled
skill guide and the ask resume hint stop printing --dispatch-capability. The
consumer-generation bump and delivery fence that minting carried stay, now
as setDispatchConsumer. Readers that inferred meaning from capability_hash
read what they meant instead: worker-show's injected stage comes from the
attached consumer, and a failed start copies custody identity only when no
authority was ever attached. The CLI keeps accepting and forwarding the
flag for older hosts.

Cancelling a Task is recorded as failed with a reason; task-list now shows
that reason and the guide and task-update notes document the recipe.

* fix(orchestration): name the fenced party without implying which Dispatch it owns

* refactor(orchestration): one worker report rule, fence only a different party

- One module owns the unproven/settleable worker states and the refusal rule; local send records it, ask and remote throw it. A stale process is worker_identity_changed on every path.
- The caller fence passes the worker's own terminal when its --from handle went stale.
- Document the shared-tmux-server limit; drop the dead dispatch_capability_invalid rejection member; tests assert dispatch state, not the capability column.

* refactor(orchestration): drop setDispatchConsumer and the dead capability retention

- dispatch --inject no longer re-points the row createDispatchContext just wrote; worker-show reports every worker-less Dispatch as context_only, since Orca keeps no record of the paste. Tests re-point through a fixture.
- failWorkerStart always records when the lifecycle closed; nothing authorizes on it.
- Restore the ask resume hint's echo of a passed --dispatch-capability: an old host checks it before --resume.
- Move the cancellation convention to #23983.

* test(orchestration): drop capability-era assertions other tests already cover

* refactor(orchestration): drop the host-side capability field and no-op test fixtures

- RpcRequest and the SSH bridge stop carrying orchestrationCapability; the CLI's wire field stays for older hosts.
- Fixtures pass identity to createRootDispatch instead of re-pointing to the same values; drop absence checks for a flag that can no longer be produced.

* test(orchestration): cover a current process whose terminal moved to another pane

* chore(orchestration): finish the capability cleanup in test stubs and skill wording

* test(orchestration): drop needless response casts; mark the db stub cast safe
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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 Companion

Monitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere.

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Parallel Worktrees

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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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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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Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

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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.
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  • 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.

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