Chasing why the pane-retry path could not request source recovery turned up the real answer: nothing can. Recovery is dead on every SSH reconnect, and the byte tail is not a fallback but the only path that has ever run. Five links, each read rather than inferred. setWrite reuses primaryClient including its id, so a reconnected client presents the SAME clientId. activate() tests exactly that at line 99 and returns 'existing' at 108, which makes the rotateDelivery branch at 118-142 reachable only when the ids differ — never here. So no sourceRecovery comes back, so finishSourceRecovery fails its !pendingRecovery guard and abandons, cancelling the delivery and deleting the checkpoint. The pane retry then opens fresh and takes the tail. This also explains the blank panes exactly. The relay concluded that this client already held the stream because, by its own identity rule, it does. The fix that implies is smaller than anything proposed so far and avoids what sank the three earlier attempts: bump a transport generation on the client record in setWrite and compare it alongside clientId, so a reconnect rotates the delivery instead of matching as 'existing'. Deliveries still outlive their clients and nothing retires on onClientDetached — the rotation happens on re-attach, which is what the recovery design already intends. RequestContext, setWrite and the publication are all relay-internal, and client and relay ship in one build, so there is no wire change and no compatibility exposure. Left explicitly unverified: whether rotateDelivery's identity preconditions hold at that moment, whether outputFlowControl is granted on the reconnected session, and what a rotation gives the RENDERER — which still remounts an empty xterm and needs a screen, not a post-checkpoint delta. Recovery keeps main's model whole; it does not by itself repaint a fresh terminal, so the tail may still be wanted for the pane even once the model stops going stale.
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 0.0.43
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.










