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Ten review rounds each found a different band where this branch replaced a daemon that origin/main would have kept, and every fix bought a new one. The reason is arithmetic, not carelessness: matching the old tolerance for a single probe costs about 25s, the classification clock has 15s to give, and funding the difference puts startup past the 60s fail-open once the kill ladder and the fork are paid. No assignment of those numbers is safe. So the residual stops being lethal. daemon-occupancy.ts always said it — "'unknown' is the residual, and it is not permission" — while daemon-init.ts fell through from unknown to killStaleDaemon. That fall-through is what made every millisecond of budget a correctness parameter. Now an unclassifiable daemon is held in degraded mode: existing terminals keep working, fresh ones run locally, and being wrong costs a degraded session instead of somebody's agent. Two exclusions, both about never holding something unrecoverable. A proven-dead endpoint is a cold start or a corpse, and holding one would hand every first launch a provider pointed at no daemon. 'rejected' answered and refused, so it can never be adopted and its sessions can never be reattached. The cost is real and deliberate: a wedged-but-empty daemon is no longer replaced at launch, so #8689 degrades to "restart it from Manage Sessions". Which only works if the user knows — and degraded mode was computed, plumbed through preload, and read by nothing. It now renders where the Restart button already lives, and says what it actually costs: new terminals close when you quit, and restarting ends whatever the host is still holding. Rejected on the way here: a background reclassifier (a permanently wedged daemon never answers, and recovery is already handled by degraded-daemon-fresh-spawn- routing.ts), letting accumulated process-table reads license a kill (its errors are systematic, so more samples agree rather than converge), and sidelining the daemon onto a renamed socket (verified working at the syscall level, then abandoned: the daemon's own endpoint-ownership watch reads the moved entry as lost and retires itself, precisely when it recovers).
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.