Brennan Benson
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When Orca auto-resumes a Codex session belonging to a different account than the one selected, it deliberately pins CODEX_HOME to the ORIGINATING account so it never continues a conversation under someone else's credentials. That pin was silent: the pane came back on the old account while the status bar showed the new one, which is one of the mechanisms behind #10757's "stuck on the previous account". The pin stays — it is correct under concurrent multi-account. This records the pane's real launch account instead of forgetting it, so the existing chip says "Codex is still signed in as A. Restart this session to use B." Review (2 rounds) found three things: the branch was rebased off a stale fork point where a sibling's notice still muted an innocent split-tab pane — and since this PR strictly increases panes carrying notices it was amplifying that keyboard-death path; the runtime-controller spawn site (pty.ts:3705) had ZERO coverage, with a full behavioural revert leaving all 392 tests green despite being reachable via the CLI/relay/orchestration resume path; and a comment claimed the shared runtime mirror "hot-swaps to whichever account is selected", which is untrue under the shipped config. Live-validated in a real Orca dev build: all five cases pass, with every CODEX_HOME claim read off the SPAWNED PROCESS via a shim binary (SIP blocks ps eww). Restart relaunches under the newly selected account with input restored and no prompt loop; a same-account resume produces no chip; in a split tab exactly one pane is noticed while the sibling types normally; and the runtime-controller path records the launch account when driven over the RPC socket. Not verified: WSL is not run and not claimed — prepareCodexSessionResumeForLaunch returns null for WSL targets, so this mechanism is HOST-LANE ONLY. Known follow-ups, deliberately not fixed here: a pane resumed into the legacy mirror is genuinely stale but unnameable in the current record shape, and a dismissal does not survive a cold restore for a resume-pinned pane (correct as-is — the new shell really is on the old account).
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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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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.
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- Computer Use — Let agents operate desktop apps and visible UI when a workflow needs real interaction.
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- And many, many more — we ship daily, so this list is perpetually behind. The changelog is the real feature list.
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