The degraded warning told the user to restart the daemon. When something other than an Orca daemon holds the endpoint, restarting clears nothing: killStaleDaemon only kills a process whose identity matches the pid record, and a foreign holder matches none, so the next launch is identical. The message now says the daemon is unreachable rather than asserting what it owns, and names the second remedy. The notice says "usually clears this" for the same reason. That case is also now written down as a known residual: an endpoint that accepts connections but never speaks the protocol reads as an incumbent on every launch, so it stays degraded with no auto-recovery, where before it was replaced. The rest is comments, because three separate deletion proposals landed on this code in one review cycle and each was a regression. The evidence read is not redundant with the unknown hold: the occupied branch has no proven-dead check and the unknown hold does, so it is the only thing between a kill and a daemon whose socket entry vanished while it still hosts agents. Its children scan is not redundant with pid verification either — a verified-live pid alone would also hold a childless daemon, which is the one #8689 case still safe to replace. And grace retries are worth more since 'unknown' stopped killing, not less: a counted 'occupied' reaches full adoption where the alternative is a degraded hold. Each now says which case dies if it is removed. Reviewers reaching for the delete key three times in a row is the code failing to explain itself, not excess.
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.
Download Orca
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
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.










