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This patch is built from the September 29 daily build plus fixes picked from main. Pull requests that landed on main after that are not in this build.

The short version

Codex terminals: Settings → Agents has a new "Run each Codex terminal on its own server" switch. It's on by default, which keeps agent status and closing tabs working correctly. Turn it off to go back to Codex's shared server and its agents overview. The switch applies to new terminals. A one-time notice explains the change and links to the switch. Codex started from a cmd.exe tab, by its full path, or after "wait for setup" finishes now runs on its own server too. A busy Codex 0.150–0.157 tab no longer shows as idle, and orchestration workers wait out Codex 0.157's startup screen before their brief is typed.

More agents: DeepSeek Harness, Freebuff, Qoder, and CodeBuddy are built in: you can launch them from Orca, and their status shows in the sidebar. ZCode CLI conversations appear in session history, and its Coding Plan quota shows in usage.

Terminal: A new Reset Terminal item in the terminal's right-click menu clears keyboard and mouse modes a crashed program left on. Orca no longer switches those modes off just because it guessed a program had died, so Shift+Enter and Option/Alt keys keep working in Codex and Claude Code after Ctrl+C. SSH terminals now clean up after a crashed program the same way local ones do. Having hundreds of terminals open no longer stops their output, and a failed terminal save no longer claims your disk is full.

Orca mobile app: On Windows hosts, phone swipes in a Codex terminal scroll again instead of typing junk into Codex after the desktop app restarts. If you update with terminals open, this takes effect once Orca's background terminal service restarts: after you close all terminals or reboot. The app also tells you when a newer version is available to install, and the keyboard now covers the page like it does on other screens in the app.

Browser: If a page in Orca's browser crashes, resizing its viewport no longer crashes Orca. The chosen size is applied when the page loads again. Browser tabs that are moved between groups no longer go blank.

Native chat (experimental): Structured chats can run orchestration themselves and receive worker results. Their status, errors, subagents, and stopped turns are now reported more accurately.

Reliability: A large diff no longer freezes Orca when many files change at once, and Cmd+J keeps the keyboard in the terminal when a workspace takes a moment to load.

Product experience

Codex & orchestration

Codex terminals get a setting to use their own server or Codex's shared one, more Codex launch types run on their own server, and orchestration workers start more reliably.

feat(settings): let Codex terminals opt back into Codex's shared server by @Jinwoo-H in #23929
fix(terminal): run Orca's cmd.exe, path-named and setup-gated Codex launches without the shared server by @Jinwoo-H in #23933
fix(runtime): stop a busy Codex 0.150-0.157 pane reading as tui-idle by @Jinwoo-H in #23805
fix(runtime): wait out Codex 0.157's startup screen, and stop at Codex's startup dialogs, before typing a worker brief by @brennanb2025 in #23745
fix(runtime): reopen the quiet-foreground tui-idle lane for agents with no other rest signal by @brennanb2025 in #23598
fix(codex): restored Codex panes on a managed account resume instead of failing with SUN_LEN by @brennanb2025 in #23724
fix(agent-trust): bound the remaining Codex trust writes a launch waits on by @nwparker in #23380
fix(codex): index a new account home before bridging history into it by @AmoabaKelvin in #22971
fix(codex): turning Codex off per agent keeps its hook entry off by @brennanb2025 in #23667
feat(orchestration): let a structured chat run orchestration as itself by @brennanb2025 in #22568
feat(orchestration): deliver worker results to a structured chat coordinator by @brennanb2025 in #22631
fix(terminal-wait): unattended launches report Claude's trust dialog instead of timing out or typing into it by @brennanb2025 in #22927
fix(zcode): wait for composer before first worker dispatch by @Alex-wangyang in #23374

Agents & agent integrations

DeepSeek Harness, Freebuff, Qoder, and CodeBuddy are built in, ZCode history and quota are shown, and agent launches and hooks are more dependable.

feat(agents): add first-class DeepSeek Harness (dsh) support by @nwparker in #22468
feat(agents): add Freebuff launch and sidebar status support by @nwparker in #23567
feat: add first-class Qoder CLI support by @nwparker in #23581
Add CodeBuddy as a built-in coding agent by @nwparker in #23740
feat(ai-vault): show ZCode CLI session history by @guanbear in #23513
feat(usage): show ZCode Coding Plan quota on current main by @guanbear in #23520
fix(opencode): stop OpenCode 2 loading a stale plugin from the retired shared hooks dir by @OrcaWin in #23500
fix(opencode): keep OpenCode 2 panes Working across plugin reloads by @brennanb2025 in #23700
fix(claude): write only the hook events and statusLine the user's Claude accepts by @brennanb2025 in #23614
fix(agent-launch): report a launch that failed before spawning as failed, with its cause by @brennanb2025 in #22913
fix(agent-launch): move only the requesting client's view to a launched tab by @brennanb2025 in #22914
Agent launches carry the surface that started them by @brennanb2025 in #23697
feat(analytics): persist local usage session identities by @blaksmatic in #18759
perf(usage): persist a scan's analytics session IDs in one write by @Jinwoo-H in #23807

Native chat

Experimental structured chats report status, errors, subagents, and stopped turns more accurately, and they can run orchestration.

fix(native-chat): render the terminal-backed chat through the structured chat's turn status by @brennanb2025 in #22090
feat(native-chat): Codex sessions write their subagents into the host status store by @brennanb2025 in #22553
refactor(sidebar): one subagent row for CLI and structured children, shared with the chat strip by @brennanb2025 in #22565
fix(native-chat): a message is accepted, then delivered by @brennanb2025 in #22821
fix(native-chat): the conversation outlives its agent by @brennanb2025 in #22835
fix(native-chat): close only the reopened chat when main closes its tab by @brennanb2025 in #22922
fix(native-chat): a request that failed reads as failed by @brennanb2025 in #22944
fix(native-chat): say a refused chat write in plain words, and keep it with the write it describes by @brennanb2025 in #22999
fix(native-chat): Stop is there from the moment a message is sent by @brennanb2025 in #23026
Show a resting Claude chat's effort instead of a blank picker by @brennanb2025 in #23106
fix(native-chat): the host writes chat failures for a person, with a typed fact beside them by @brennanb2025 in #23116
fix(native-chat): let a multi-question ask record list its questions by @brennanb2025 in #23451
fix(native-chat): a turn a proven crash cut short reads interrupted by @brennanb2025 in #23456
fix(native-chat): stop killing processes that only inherited a chat's spawn tag by @brennanb2025 in #23460
fix(codex): the provider supervisor outlives its provider group when stopped by @brennanb2025 in #23466
fix(claude): run structured Claude under the POSIX provider supervisor by @brennanb2025 in #23476
fix(native-chat): keep a Codex ask's questions in the order it asked them by @brennanb2025 in #23502
fix(native-chat): a failed Codex turn keeps its failure and "Worked for" by @brennanb2025 in #23514
fix(codex): a native chat's thread opens on the model the chat chose by @brennanb2025 in #23532
fix(native-chat): show the "Working for" bar while a turn runs by @brennanb2025 in #23537
fix(claude): withdraw a follow-up queued behind a stopped turn instead of dropping it silently by @brennanb2025 in #23553
fix(native-chat): keep a turn's bar on the prompt that opened it by @brennanb2025 in #23573
fix(native-chat): a subagent's words are presented as that subagent's, never the parent's by @brennanb2025 in #23605
fix(native-chat): each chat failure says why in plain words, on the thing that failed by @brennanb2025 in #23608
fix(codex): a message whose turn was stopped before Codex took it is withdrawn, not stuck by @brennanb2025 in #23618
fix(native-chat): a message Claude folds into its running turn no longer splits the turn by @brennanb2025 in #23621
fix(native-chat): stop flashing "still starting" on every chat launch by @brennanb2025 in #23666
fix(native-chat): group chat rows by the turn that produced them by @brennanb2025 in #23671
fix(native-chat): only Codex's turn completion ends a Codex turn by @brennanb2025 in #23682
fix(native-chat): an empty workspace opens the default agent as a chat when chat is the default view by @brennanb2025 in #23693
fix(native-chat): drop the Codex error path #23682 removed by @nwparker in #23801
fix(native-chat): keep a child turn settling on an error Codex will not retry by @nwparker in #23808

Terminal

Reset Terminal clears stuck input modes, Orca no longer switches off a live program's keyboard modes, and terminal saves and restores are more dependable.

feat(terminal): add Reset Terminal that clears leftover input modes on the host and pane by @Jinwoo-H in #23602
fix(terminal): stop guessing that apps died and wiping their keyboard modes by @Jinwoo-H in #23584
fix(terminal): keep a dead app's input modes recoverable after a refuted proof by @Jinwoo-H in #23474
fix(terminal): clear the Kitty input mirror when a shell is confirmed by @Jinwoo-H in #23483
fix(relay): reset input modes a dead program left on in SSH terminals by @Jinwoo-H in #23488
fix(terminal): let unselected Cmd+C reach apps that own their selection by @Jinwoo-H in #23597
fix(terminal): stop inline-image decoders exhausting the renderer's wasm memory budget by @OrcaWin in #23499
fix(terminal): stop misdiagnosing save failures as a full disk by @nwparker in #23708
Improve PTY device error messages with localization support by @AmethystLiang in #23538
fix(workspace): a restored workspace paints before its terminals reconnect by @brennanb2025 in #22810
fix(terminal): retry first-terminal seeding until a decision applies by @brennanb2025 in #22919
fix(terminal): every explicit terminal close commits through one main transaction by @brennanb2025 in #22929
fix(terminal): main records every tab close, and seeding reads the records by @brennanb2025 in #22955
fix(terminal): one intentional-stop register, and per-run spawn and input facts by @brennanb2025 in #22989
fix(terminal): stop a resume note from blanking a live remote agent pane by @Jinwoo-H in #23491
fix(runtime): retire an exited terminal before its stream end by @brennanb2025 in #23492
fix(terminal): reveal splits while the source pane binds by @nwparker in #23692
fix(terminal): preserve typing while a remote pane reattaches by @nwparker in #23701

Mobile app & paired clients

Phone swipes scroll Codex on Windows hosts again, the app tells you when an update is available, and terminal streams and keyboard layout behave better.

fix(terminal): restore the mouse format with mouse tracking, so phone swipes don't type into Codex by @brennanb2025 in #23946
feat(mobile): tell users when a newer app binary is installable by @Jinwoo-H in #23755
feat(mobile): the keyboard covers the page like a native screen, and the shell says its height by @Jinwoo-H in #23110
fix(mobile): native desktop-mode keyboard lift stays on screen; metrics carry the row pitch by @Jinwoo-H in #23070
fix(mobile): the page pushes its terminal frame into the document from RN layout by @Jinwoo-H in #23079
fix(mobile): size a terminal's first subscribe from the document's reported cell box by @Jinwoo-H in #23080
fix(mobile): start AI-button agents through agent.launch, never a bare shell by @brennanb2025 in #22762
fix(mobile): unsubscribe session tabs by request on the direct connection by @brennanb2025 in #22943
fix(mobile): release streams whose ready arrives after a replayed cancel by @brennanb2025 in #22945
fix(runtime): register phone terminal subscriptions when the request arrives by @brennanb2025 in #22948
fix(mobile): show one review sheet at a time so the review screen never freezes by @brennanb2025 in #22951
fix(runtime): let the phone end a terminal stream by the request that opened it by @brennanb2025 in #23006
fix(runtime): register phone tab-list streams when the request arrives by @brennanb2025 in #23045
fix(mobile): paired clients re-derive a kept terminal after a cold restore by @brennanb2025 in #23109
fix(mobile): send typed question answers as structured answers by @brennanb2025 in #23458
fix(runtime): answer terminal.subscribe at once for a pane the desktop already has mounted by @Jinwoo-H in #23512
fix(mobile): left-align every line of the desktop host card by @Jinwoo-H in #23673
fix(mobile): truncate oversize markdown reads instead of failing them by @Jinwoo-H in #23676

Browser

A crashed page no longer takes Orca down when resized, and moved browser tabs no longer go blank.

fix(browser): a crashed page no longer crashes Orca when its viewport is resized by @brennanb2025 in #23852
fix(deps): take Electron 43.7.5 so detached webviews stop blanking browser tabs by @Jinwoo-H in #23586
fix(browser): give a tab's identity one owner so viewport presets stop dropping client hints by @brennanb2025 in #23718
fix(browser): a failed SSH route keeps its card while the host redials by @brennanb2025 in #23465
fix(browser): restore hover after leaving a mobile viewport preset by @AmoabaKelvin in #22846
Browser tab placement review by @AmethystLiang in #23462

Tabs, sidebar & status bar

New-tab search ranks results better, Cmd+J keeps terminal focus, and sidebar and status bar layout is tidied up.

Tab opening ranking by @AmethystLiang in #23435
Fix terminal focus when Cmd+J wakes a workspace by @nwparker in #23546
fix(sidebar): clip arrow overflow at the worktree card border by @nwparker in #23566
fix(sidebar): move agent child disclosure to the right by @brennanb2025 in #23577
fix(status-bar): re-measure collapsing levels when only the collapsed width moves by @AmethystLiang in #23773
fix(setup): remove wait-for-setup helper text by @nwparker in #23799

Editor, diffs & files

Large diffs no longer freeze Orca, and Markdown documents are found faster.

fix(renderer): stop the modal toast rule from freezing large diffs by @brennanb2025 in #23721
fix: bound combined diff editors and scope chat style invalidation by @nwparker in #23725
fix(editor): preserve combined diff scroll on line focus by @nwparker in #23735
Speed up Markdown document discovery with bundled ripgrep by @nwparker in #23306

SSH, Git & integrations

Remote agent settings survive a failed read, partial-clone repositories are identified correctly, and Linear accepts team keys that start with a digit.

fix(ssh): don't overwrite remote agent config after a failed read by @AmoabaKelvin in #22644
fix: identify partial-clone repositories from the correct remote by @nwparker in #23504
fix(linear): accept team keys that start with a digit by @leilei3167 in #23423

Reliability & performance

Settings search, agent status updates, and the browser version of Orca do less redundant work.

perf: preserve matching General settings sections during search by @nwparker in #23177
perf: preserve matching Accounts settings sections during search by @nwparker in #23192
fix(agent-session): wait for in-flight session-store writes before teardown returns by @nwparker in #23545
fix(agent-hooks): compare status rows structurally instead of serializing both by @brennanb2025 in #23585
fix(tab-group): measure fallback pane geometry once per tab group, only while visible by @brennanb2025 in #23592

Tests, CI & maintenance

CI runs faster and on cheaper runners, Windows releases require signed binaries, and a CI audit sharding change was reverted.

perf(ci): shard the anti-slop audit across processes instead of one JS runtime by @nwparker in #23543
revert(ci): drop the anti-slop process sharding, which measured as noise on a 4-vCPU runner by @nwparker in #23575
fix(windows): require signed release binaries and identify CLI launcher by @nwparker in #23680
fix(release): stop the release policy from deleting pipeline-cut releases by @AmethystLiang in #23669
fix(i18n): prune the wait-for-setup help copy #23799 removed by @nwparker in #23802
docs(readme): remove the TestFlight link by @Jinwoo-H in #23660
docs: update GitHub star history chart by @Jinwoo-H in #23661
ci: reduce repeated runner work and validate affected-test selection by @nwparker in #23540
perf(ci): stop the orcad smoke idling 15s and the static job fetching mobile packages it skips by @nwparker in #23541
perf(ci): take i18next-cli 1.74.1 so extraction stops re-scanning every key to find its leaves by @nwparker in #23550
perf(ci): diff against the merge commit's first parent so PR checkouts can be shallow by @nwparker in #23562
perf(ci): cache pnpm verification records on Linux by @nwparker in #23568
perf(ci): run static analysis on the free ARM runner by @nwparker in #23576
perf(ci): stop duplicating shared Linux download caches by @nwparker in #23578
perf(ci): move six more jobs to the free ARM runner by @nwparker in #23594
ci: skip unrelated installs and share xterm build dependencies by @nwparker in #23607
ci: use faster gzip for temporary Linux test packages by @nwparker in #23609
perf(ci): use four ARM test workers and remove repeated compilation by @nwparker in #23685
perf(ci): plan the unit shards before the static-analysis gate instead of behind it by @nwparker in #23743
perf(ci): take advisory unit-selection evidence off the gate by @nwparker in #23776
perf(ci): spend fewer concurrency slots per pull request by @nwparker in #23810
chore(ci): stop auto-filing community PRs onto the project board by @nwparker in #23796
ci(e2e): run the SSH browser route e2e when its source changes by @brennanb2025 in #23498
fix(ci): keep a squash-merged RPC recording pin reachable through its pull request by @brennanb2025 in #23720
test(windows): stop the NSIS capability probe failing on a slow PowerShell cold start by @nwparker in #23381
test(e2e): stabilize terminal shortcut Kitty and Ctrl+C tests by @Jinwoo-H in #23472
test(usage): add long-context token fields to the Codex fixture by @Jinwoo-H in #23478
test(e2e): fix failures and improve stability by @AmethystLiang in #23480
fix(bench): load benchmark modules under test through jiti by @nwparker in #23482
test(e2e): keep the Kitty-arming app alive in the Option-composed input tests by @Jinwoo-H in #23495
refactor(agent-resume): give each resume-note reader its own named check by @Jinwoo-H in #23497
test(cross-version): a released client's capabilities come from its own release by @brennanb2025 in #23533
test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus to main after #22951 by @Jinwoo-H in #23535
test(native-chat): await the async history and journal snapshot in three tests by @Jinwoo-H in #23560
test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus to main after #23080 by @Jinwoo-H in #23565
test(e2e): take the sidebar measured-row baseline with reduced motion by @brennanb2025 in #23588
test(claude): fix queued-send cancellation CI expectations by @nwparker in #23675
fix(ci): repair terminal link handling and E2E recovery fixtures by @nwparker in #23677
test: measure pointer gestures on the isolated visible display by @nwparker in #23678
test: retire a dormant worker through host-owned status by @nwparker in #23686
test(e2e): give wheel probes a running TUI fixture by @nwparker in #23691
test: finish sidebar lazy imports before teardown by @nwparker in #23694
test(browser): keep shortcut scope checks valid in narrow panes by @nwparker in #23709
test(terminal): wait for decoy panes before host parking by @nwparker in #23729
test(browser): create probe body before starting frame requests by @nwparker in #23730
test: wait for remote terminal grid convergence after reveal by @nwparker in #23738
test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus to main after #22762 by @Jinwoo-H in #23757
perf(test): remove obsolete structural snapshots by @nwparker in #23777
test(native-chat): main's Codex child tests expect a turn to end on its own turn/completed by @brennanb2025 in #23783
test(status-bar): cover re-probing a roomier density level by @AmethystLiang in #23793
test: remove junk tests that assert source text instead of behavior by @nwparker in #23815
test: remove assertion-free probes, copied inventories and export-shape checks by @nwparker in #23816

New Contributors

@blaksmatic made their first contribution in #18759
@leilei3167 made their first contribution in #23423
@Alex-wangyang made their first contribution in #23374
@guanbear made their first contribution in #23513

Full Changelog: v1.4.217...v1.4.218