Brennan Benson fceca5cece fix(sidebar): an agent's row stays while it runs, whatever its tab title (#23948)
* fix(sidebar): keep hook-less agent rows while the agent runs, whatever its title

Codex retitles its pane to the project name, so the sidebar's title-derived
row (which required the title to name an agent) vanished while Codex kept
running (#23767). Rows now take identity from the canonical pane resolver
over the pane's foreground-process read and launch record, then the title;
the title only decides idle/working/needs-input. The row still goes away when
the PTY exits, the process tracker proves the shell is back, or the title is a
shell or default title.

* test(dashboard): justify the partial store fixture's type assertion

* fix(sidebar): only a live process read keeps a plain-title agent row

Review of the previous commit found ghost rows: the tab launch record is a
latch nothing clears on WSL, after an SSH exit, or for a launch that never
started, and a parked pane's process read went stale because only the
mounted tracker re-derives it.

- The launch record returns to main's role: a fallback only for titles that
  show activity, ranked below a title naming another agent (pane reuse),
  matching the tab icon's order.
- A parked pane's command boundary retires its unconfirmable process read,
  like the mounted ladder's unavailable path; reveal re-reads it.

* fix(sidebar): confirm before a parked marker retires an agent; read Git Bash prompt titles as the shell

- A parked pane's end-of-command marker can be a nested shell's leak under a
  still-running full-screen agent, so confirm the foreground first (as the
  mounted ladder does) and retire the process read only on a shell or no
  answer. SSH/remote parked panes hold no incarnation to fence a host read
  with, so they still retire.
- Git Bash emits no command marks; its `$MSYSTEM:$PWD` prompt title
  (MINGW64:/c/repo) is now shell evidence, so a stale Codex read there no
  longer keeps a ghost row after Codex exits.

* fix(sidebar): trust only process-read agents for plain-title rows; per-worktree foreground selector groups by tab

A daemon reattach seeds the pane's foreground entry with its launch agent, which
can outlive the process while Orca is closed. The entry now records where its
agent came from (agentEvidence), and the sidebar/dashboard title-derived rows
only keep a plain-title row on an actual process read. Routing and the tab icon
are unchanged.

selectPaneForegroundAgentsForWorktree grouped every pane key per worktree; it now
groups by tab once per map identity and skips worktrees with no tabs.

* fix(sidebar): a parked pane's reattach keeps its own process read of the same agent

The reattach seed marked a returning parked Codex pane as launch-record
evidence, over the process read this session already took, so its row
blinked out on reveal and stayed hidden if the user left the tab before
the visible read landed. Keep the read when it names the same agent; the
seed still drops byte-routing trust.

* test(terminal): foreground confirmation publishes process-read evidence

* fix(sidebar): a cleared pane title retires the agent's process read

Codex clears its title when it exits, and the tab then shows its default
title. A pane without shell command marks never re-reads its foreground
process, so the retained read kept a "Codex · Idle" row after /quit
(permanently for a hand-typed Codex; about 15 s while the marked-pane
confirm ladder ran). Treat a blank title like the default title it shows.

* fix(sidebar): the pane's process monitor retires an exited agent's process read

A hook-less pane keeps its sidebar row from the tracker's foreground-process
read, but nothing re-derived that read in a pane without OSC 133 command
marks. After Codex exited there, a "Codex · Idle" row stayed: permanently
when the shell titles its prompt, or when a killed Codex leaves its last
title.

The pane's agent-completion process monitor already confirms an agent's
exit (no agent and no child processes, held past its settle window). It now
reports that exit to the tracker, which retires its own process read and
runs the confirmed-shell path the visible-pty read uses. A tracker read that
names an agent seeds the monitor, so hidden panes and panes the monitor had
not polled yet are watched too. A command read in flight still decides the
pane, and launch records or other agents' reads are left alone.

* fix(sidebar): a monitor-confirmed exit leaves the next agent in an unmarked pane identifiable

The process-exit retire published shellForeground:true and left the one-shot
visible sample settled; a pane without command marks has no command start to
lift either, so a Codex typed again after quitting was never read and lost its
row on retitle. Publish shellForeground:false and reopen the sample.

* test(terminal): justify the pane binding cast in the process-exit relaunch test
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Features

Mobile Companion

Monitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere.

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Orca desktop with the mobile companion app

Parallel Worktrees

Fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner.

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Parallel worktree orchestration

Terminal Splits

Ghostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts.

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Terminal splits

Design Mode

Click 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, Native

Browse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch.

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GitHub and Linear task workflows in Orca

SSH Worktrees

Run 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 Diffs

Drop 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 Agents

VS Code's editor with autosave everywhere — drag files or images straight into an agent prompt.

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Drag files and images into an agent prompt

Orca CLI

Agents drive Orca too — script every workflow with orca worktree create, snapshot, click, and fill.

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Script Orca from the CLI

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.

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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.

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