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A reconnect restored plain shells correctly but was reported to bring full-screen apps back as fragments of a frame — Claude Code showed a few rules and its cost line until a resize forced it to repaint. The two payloads are not interchangeable. Relay replay is a byte TAIL: it can begin mid-escape, and it misses the alt-screen enter, the clears and the absolute cursor positioning that built the frame, so replaying it into a fresh terminal paints whatever fragments survive. The model snapshot is a serialized GRID — which is what tmux repaints on attach, and the only payload that reliably restores a TUI. Orca already had the grid path and already preferred it; it was gated to PARKING. A reconnect needs it for the same underlying reason a park does: the pane paints into a terminal holding nothing, because a reconnect bumps tab.generation, which is the pane's React key, so TerminalPane remounts and the old xterm is disposed with its buffer. So the gate now admits both, and prepaintParkedSshSnapshot is prepaintSshModelSnapshot since parking is no longer the only caller. Deliberately NOT inheriting the parking kill switch: main keeps its headless model regardless of terminalSshViewParking, so a user who turns view parking off would otherwise be stranded on the tail. Every safety gate below eligibility is untouched, and pinned that way: null, renderer-sourced, sourceless, empty, and escape-tail-only snapshots all still degrade to relay replay, so widening WHY the model is trusted cannot widen WHAT is trusted and cannot regress to a blank pane. Reverting either half of the gate fails three of the new tests. HONESTY ABOUT WHAT THIS IS VERIFIED TO DO. I could not reproduce the corruption it targets. Two attempts against a live host, both on a build WITHOUT this change, both restored correctly: a freshly started Claude Code and Codex side by side, and an alt-screen `less` scrolled 4000 lines so its original full paint had aged out of the relay's 100KB tail. The reporter's case also involved pulling wifi — an abrupt drop rather than a clean disconnect — which is the one variable I cannot simulate here. So this is verified to be correct-by-construction and non-regressing: with it applied, the same scenarios still restore correctly (top live, less at its scrolled offset in alt-screen, both agent TUIs coherent). It is NOT verified to fix the reported symptom, because the symptom did not reproduce. Treat the symptom as open until someone confirms it on an abrupt drop. Also: top was a poor proxy for a TUI in my earlier verification precisely because it repaints every second and therefore self-heals within a tick.
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 0.0.42
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.