* fix(worktrees): delete removed checkouts in git, not in Orca's file pool Local worktree removal renamed the checkout into a sibling trash root and deleted it in the background with a recursive fs.rm in the main process. That queued one request per entry on libuv's shared 4-thread file pool, so for minutes every other async fs call in the main process (the agent-session store behind chat sends, file explorer reads) waited behind the delete. `git worktree remove` now deletes the checkout inline in git's own process again, so the card stays in its Deleting state for the length of the delete while Orca's file pool stays free. No timeout applies to the call, so a large delete is never killed halfway. If git reports success but the path still exists (Git for Windows leaves junctions and their parent directories in place), the leftover is deleted with the existing removeHostTree; WSL checkouts stay with the distro. Nothing creates trash any more: the scheduling queue, rename/restore helpers and the trash_rename span are gone. The startup sweep stays to drain entries older releases left behind, and now removes each emptied trash root so the obligation ends. * fix(worktrees): let Git delete Windows checkouts with long paths enabled Removal now always runs Git's own recursive delete, and worktree creation checks out with core.longpaths on Windows, so a deep checkout Orca created could fail to delete with "Filename too long" (#6433). The Windows recovery then finishes the delete but keeps the branch. Pass the same command-scoped core.longpaths option to `git worktree remove` so Git can delete what it created. Also point the CI shard timing entry at the renamed real-git removal suite. * fix(worktrees): keep an inherited GIT_ASK_YESNO out of the worktree delete Git for Windows asks $GIT_ASK_YESNO whether to retry when a file stays locked during a recursive delete. Orca's git env inherits the user's environment, so an inherited value would run an arbitrary prompt program in the middle of a removal. Drop it for the removal call only. * perf(worktrees): run worktree deletes under their own limit, outside git admission `git worktree remove` now deletes the whole checkout in Git's own process, which takes 20-35 s on a large tree. It took a general git admission slot at status tier for that whole time, and that cap is as small as two slots on a machine with six or fewer cores, so two deletes blocked every status read. Deletes now skip general admission and queue under their own limit of two per host instead: two concurrent deletes already saturate one disk, and more only slow each other down. Leftover cleanup runs inside the same slot. * fix(worktrees): delete removed checkouts in the background and mark them removing Since the checkout is deleted by `git worktree remove` in Git's own process, a large delete takes 20-35 s. Answering the request only after that made web and mobile (30 s), paired desktop (60/180 s) and the CLI (60 s) report a failure for a delete that was still going, and mobile silently re-showed the row. The request now does everything that can refuse (lock, cleanliness, archive hook, watcher/terminal gate, terminal stop, shared-link unlink), records the removal in an in-memory table on the host and answers `removing: true`. The delete, branch cleanup and metadata purge run after it in the same order as before, and the watcher/terminal gate stays held until they finish. - Listings mark rows in the table `removing` for clients that advertise `worktree.background-removal.v1` (the desktop renderer, paired desktop and web), and leave them out for everyone else (older clients, mobile, the CLI), which already dropped the row when the request answered. - The outcome (removed, with any preserved branch, or the error) rides the existing worktrees-changed event as an optional field, sent after the row has left the table. - A repeat delete while Git runs joins it. A create at the same path or with the same branch is refused with "Cleanup is pending; try again shortly"; create's name search skips the path, so generated names move on. - Nothing is persisted: after a quit or crash Git still lists the checkout and it can be deleted again. WSL checkouts still delete inline. - `orca worktree rm` says the checkout is still being deleted. * fix(worktrees): keep the existing Deleting card until the host's Git finishes The host now answers a local worktree delete on acceptance and deletes in the background. The renderer keeps the existing delete state set until the host publishes how it ended: - The delete that asked waits for the outcome on the worktrees-changed event (local IPC or the paired runtime's client event), then runs the same teardown, preserved-branch toast and card error an inline delete did. If that event is lost to a dropped connection, a listing that shows the row gone after it was marked removing finishes the wait, and one that shows it back without the marker fails it. - Any other renderer (a reload, a paired desktop, web) sets the same delete state from the host's `removing` marker and clears it when the marker goes. A failure the host publishes lands on that card's existing error. - Web advertises `worktree.background-removal.v1` so the host sends it the marker; paired desktop does through the Electron capability list. No new component, style or state: the card reads the delete state it always did. A host that predates this answers when done without `removing`, and the renderer takes that as finished, as before. * test(worktrees): type the removal harness and projection for the node typecheck * fix(worktrees): don't fail a delete retry with an earlier attempt's buffered failure A background removal's outcome that reached this renderer with no waiter (another client's delete, a host-marked card, or one already settled from listings) was buffered for 60 s and consumed by the next delete of the same workspace, so retrying a failed delete failed at once with the old error while the host was deleting. Drop the buffered outcome before sending the request; only an outcome that arrives after it can belong to it. * fix(worktrees): let only a gap in host events settle a background delete from listings Git unlists the checkout before the host deletes the branch, cleans the push target and purges metadata, and the worktree-directory watcher refetches within 250 ms. The renderer read the missing row as a finished delete, so the waiter resolved without the preserved branch (no toast) and a failure in those last steps showed as success; the real outcome was then dropped. The listing fallback exists only for a lost outcome event, so it now applies only after this host's event stream had a gap: a new subscription or a replay after reconnect. * perf(worktrees): let a bulk delete start each same-repo checkout delete once the host accepts the last A bulk delete ran one worktree at a time per repo (#2259, for packed-refs and ref-lock races in branch cleanup). With Git now deleting each checkout for 20-35 s before the request settles, N worktrees in one repo took N times that. The renderer now queues same-repo deletes only until the host accepts each one; a parent still waits for its nested children to finish. The host serializes the branch cleanup step per repo itself, which also covers removals started by different clients. * test(worktrees): pin the host platform in the mocked removal suites so they pass on Windows Removal now passes -c core.longpaths=true on Windows, so the exact-argv assertions and command-keyed mocks never matched there (17 failures on a Windows host). Pin darwin as the add-worktree suites already do, and drive the one Windows-specific case through the same spy. * test(worktrees): type the blocked git remove result instead of a broad object The anti-slop static-analysis gate rejects `object` parameters. * test(worktrees): clear the changed-code quality gate in the removal suites Merge the duplicate node:fs import, build the mock child without a cast, read worktrees:list rows through one typed helper, and give the remaining casts a SAFETY line. * fix(worktrees): record each background delete durably and finish it after a quit or crash A quit mid-delete left git to finish the checkout on its own while the branch delete and metadata purge never ran; a crash left a normal-looking row. Each accepted local removal now writes a record beside the profile state before git starts, clears it on success or failure, and the host runs the same delete again for any record left at startup, re-deriving what remains from git and disk. An orderly quit stops the checkout delete without waiting for it. * test(worktrees): type the interrupted-removal assertions for the node typecheck * fix(worktrees): finish an interrupted delete that already removed the checkout's .git file Quit stops git worktree remove mid-delete, and Git deletes the checkout's .git file wherever it falls in directory order. Git then refuses the checkout ("validation failed ... .git does not exist") on every retry, so the startup finish failed and the row could never be deleted from Orca. A registered checkout this record owns that has lost its .git file now finishes like an unregistered one: leftover files, prune, then the branch. * fix(worktrees): let Git finish an interrupted delete, and never take a different checkout A quit or crash that stops `git worktree remove` after it deleted the checkout's .git file left a registered checkout Git refuses to remove. The previous fix deleted that leftover inside Orca's process, which is the bulk delete this change exists to avoid (and on Windows the leftover can be most of the checkout). The startup finish now rewrites the missing .git file from Git's own admin entry for that path and lets `git worktree remove --force` delete it. `git worktree repair` is not used: it also re-points every other registered path, including a checkout another repository now owns there. Orca deletes the leftover itself only when no admin entry claims the path. The startup finish forces, so it now leaves the path alone when the checkout there is not the one recorded: a registered worktree on a different branch or head, or a `.git` at a path Git already unregistered. The record is dropped and the card shows why. The record write before Git starts is now bounded (2 s, logged when exceeded) so a stalled disk cannot hold the delete, and the outcome is published before the record's clear reaches disk. * test(worktrees): compare worktree paths by value and tear down with Windows lock retries Git prints forward slashes in `git worktree list` on Windows, so the real-Git removal suites never found a joined path there: positive checks failed and negative ones passed without proving anything. They now compare Git's parsed rows by value. Teardown uses the shared retrying removeTree, since Windows can hold the deleted checkout busy for a moment after Git exits. Adds a relative-path worktree case for the .git restore (skipped before Git 2.48). * fix(worktrees): reply to a worktree delete when it has finished, not on a broadcast event A current client's delete request now waits for the host's background delete and gets its real result (removed, a preserved branch, or the error) as the reply, the way it did before the delete moved off the request. A request that arrives while the delete runs joins it and gets the same result. Every other view keeps reading the host's `removing` marker: the row leaving means the delete finished, and the row listed again without the marker shows "The delete did not finish. Try again." on a card that view had marked Deleting. A request whose reply is lost (a timeout or a dropped connection) settles the same way from a fresh listing instead of reporting a failure. Clients without the background-removal capability (mobile, the CLI, older desktops) are still answered on acceptance and have rows under removal left out of their listings. This removes the outcome on worktreesChanged and everything it needed: the renderer's outcome waiters, early-outcome buffer and TTL, per-host event-gap generations, the request pre-registration, and the accept callback bulk delete used. Bulk delete runs same-repo deletes in parallel only on this machine, whose host serializes branch cleanup per repo; SSH and paired hosts stay serialized. * test(worktrees): type the pending-removal host id in the background-removal suite * fix(worktrees): answer a delete request even when a concurrent removal of the same worktree replaced its record The desktop app's removal and the runtime removal (CLI, paired clients) coalesce separately, so both can be accepted for one worktree. The second replaced the first's record, and the first delete then finished without resolving the request waiting on it, leaving the desktop card on Deleting indefinitely. Each delete now settles the request it was started for. * fix(worktrees): run same-repo removal archive hooks and teardown one at a time on the host Local bulk delete now sends same-repo removals in parallel, so their archive hooks, terminal teardown and preflight ran at once; a hook that writes refs can race the repo's ref locks (#2259). The host now serializes each local removal up to acceptance per repo, for every client; Git's checkout delete still runs in parallel under the delete limit. * fix(runtime): keep waiting worktree deletes out of a host's foreground call slots worktree.rm now replies only after Git deletes the checkout (up to minutes), so on paired desktop and web each waiting delete held one of the host's 8 foreground call slots, and a bulk delete queued listing refreshes and every other foreground call behind it. Deletes now run in their own lane with the same bound; the 2-slot background lane stays for status polls. * fix(worktrees): join a same-worktree delete accepted while a removal waited its repo turn The desktop app and the runtime (CLI, paired clients, web) check for a running delete before they queue for the repo's acceptance turn. A delete of the same worktree from the other path, accepted while this one queued, was missed: this request re-ran the archive hook, stopped the terminals again and started a second `git worktree remove` on the directory Git was deleting. The queued acceptance now re-checks and joins the running delete. * fix(worktrees): fence a resumed delete's checkout from startup, and drop rows a listing read before the delete finished A delete a quit or crash interrupted took its terminal and file-watcher gate only when the resume job ran, after the first window was shown; session restore could open a shell or watcher inside the half-deleted checkout first, and on Windows that handle can fail the resumed git delete. Loading the records now fences each recorded path, and the resumed job takes the fence over in the same tick it takes its own gate. A listing that read git's registration before a delete finished, and replied after the removal record cleared, returned the row unmarked, so other views briefly showed "The delete did not finish". Listings now capture the pending removals before reading git and leave out a row whose delete finished successfully since; a row whose delete failed stays listed as before. * test(worktrees): keep git's auto-maintenance out of the real-git removal suite CI's Git 2.55 failed the file-pool test in teardown with ENOTEMPTY on the scratch repo's objects/pack after the test body passed: the 3,000-file commit's detached auto-maintenance was still writing a pack. The scratch repo now disables auto-maintenance and auto-gc. * fix(worktrees): one archive-hook approval covers a same-repo bulk delete again Local same-repo deletes now start together, so each queued its trust prompt with a state snapshot taken before the first prompt was answered; approving the first still showed the same prompt once per remaining worktree. The queued check now reads the store when its turn comes. * fix(worktrees): a delete Git fails partway stays listed with its error; Delete retries it `git worktree remove --force` drops the checkout's registration even when it cannot delete a file (root-owned files, `chflags uchg`, a read-only Windows directory). Orca lists workspaces from Git, so the row vanished after the error, leaving the checkout, the branch and Orca's metadata with no way to retry. - A background delete that fails with the checkout still on disk, unregistered, and still the removed checkout's own leftover keeps its durable removal record with the error (`failure`) instead of clearing it. Every other failure clears it as before. - Local listings (desktop list/list-all/detected, runtime list/ps/detected) add a row for each such record, carrying `removalError`, and for a pending removal whose checkout Git no longer lists (shown as removing). - Delete on that row (desktop IPC and runtime worktree.rm) runs the recorded removal again: terminal teardown, then the leftover, prune, branch and metadata, under the per-host delete limit. - The record ends on a successful retry, when the checkout is gone (listing or startup), when a different checkout takes the path, or on forget-local. Startup never retries a failed record. - The finish's unregistered-path rule accepts a `.git` file naming the admin entry Git removed (the leftover's own) and still refuses any other `.git`. The removal table and listing projection move out of the background removal module into worktree-removal-table.ts and worktree-removal-listing.ts. * fix(renderer): show a failed delete's host error on its card A row the host lists with removalError gets the existing delete-state error (no new element), cleared when the host stops listing it failed. A row this view marked Deleting that comes back failed, and a lost delete reply settled from the listing, report the host's error instead of the generic one. * test(worktrees): type the failed-removal listing and refresh mocks * fix(worktrees): a failed delete's retry never removes a checkout Git registers at the path again The retry replays the recorded choices (force, branch deletion) that were made for the unregistered leftover. If the user removed the leftover and `git worktree add`ed the same branch at the path, the new checkout matched the record's branch and head, so Delete force-removed it with its uncommitted files, skipping the normal delete's cleanliness check. The retry now refuses a registered checkout and lets the record go, so the next Delete takes the normal path. * fix(worktrees): a failed delete's record ends at startup once its repo is removed from Orca * fix(renderer): a failed delete's row offers Remove from Orca * test(worktrees): type the failed-removal IPC test's module mocks without casts * fix(worktrees): Delete picks retry or a normal delete from Git's current listing * fix(worktrees): a failed delete's retry checks the leftover again right before deleting it * fix(worktrees): Remove from Orca reaches paired clients and matches the failed row's own host * fix(worktrees): a failed delete's retry re-lists only its own repo's authorized roots * fix(worktrees): a second Delete joins a retry already running, and the startup finish keeps its last-resort delete * fix(renderer): a failed delete's card says it failed, and Delete keeps the error for its dialog * fix(renderer): a failed delete's dialog shows the host's error, and its card label keeps the full error a hover away * style(worktrees): import the removal result types in one statement * test(worktrees): a runtime listing right after a failed delete shows the failed row, not the cached scan * fix(worktrees): pass the runtime retry's PTY-stop waiver in the shape the waiver invariant pins * fix(worktrees): drop Remove from Orca from failed-delete rows A failed delete stays listed with its error and Delete retries it; the separate forget item, its dialog copy and forget's failed-record clearing are removed. The startup clear for repos no longer in Orca keeps matching the local copy only. * test(worktrees): wait for the dropped record's write before the failed-removal suite tears down
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
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
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- 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
- Android: Download APK 0.0.50 · Install guide
Community & Support
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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.










