stablyai/orca v1.4.230 on GitHub

Thank you so much for using Orca and for your continued support! ❤️

The short version

Native chat (experimental): Use Antigravity in chat, choose which agents open as chats, and install a missing agent from the chat itself. Paste copied files as attachments, queue images, and see clearer feedback while attachments and queue actions are pending.
Accounts & agents: After switching Claude accounts, restart running sessions on the new account. Remove downloaded agent runtimes from Settings, and edit or delete Linear comments through the Orca CLI.
Phone: Edit queued messages in place, follow tool runs with desktop-style cards, and see your conversation immediately when resuming from history. Landscape phones put session tabs in the top bar, and Tasks makes clear which desktop you’re using.
SSH & remote workspaces: Disconnect stays disconnected, sleeping workspaces stay asleep, and closed tabs stay closed after reconnecting. Clearer server update and re-pairing messages help you recover a connection.
Everyday polish: Quick Command shortcuts follow the focused split, tab previews wait for the full hover delay, and file headers offer Reveal in Finder. Workspace cleanup better protects same-path projects on other machines.

Compatibility & upgrade notes

Native chat (experimental): Some chat features require support from the remote host. Keep the host updated alongside Orca to use the latest capabilities.

The orca command on SSH hosts: Existing hosts retain explicitly saved CLI control preferences; an unset preference is migrated to off. To allow commands on a connected SSH host to open and control this desktop’s Orca browser tabs for that host’s workspaces, enable Allow this host’s orca CLI to control Orca under Settings → SSH Hosts → edit the host → Advanced Connection.

Product experience

Native chat (experimental)

Choose which agents open as chats, use Antigravity, attach files and images more reliably, and see clearer queue, model and input-ownership feedback.

Offer Install when a chat’s host is missing the agent it needs by @brennanb2025 in #29051
Chat: dropped files hold Send until they're attached by @brennanb2025 in #29173
A queue action still on its way greys its controls, like the phone by @brennanb2025 in #29120
Image messages wait in the queue like text by @brennanb2025 in #28655
Chat: pasting a copied file attaches it, like dropping it by @brennanb2025 in #29089
Choose which agents open in native chat by @brennanb2025 in #29071
A sign-in prompt on an ACP agent's error output ends the start or turn signed out by @brennanb2025 in #28467
An agent can run each chat's own permission mode itself by @brennanb2025 in #28455
Hide Orca's chat-naming requests from Session History by @nwparker in #30029
A running Claude chat keeps its model when two Claude Code versions list differently by @brennanb2025 in #30022
Use Antigravity in native chat through its ACP server by @brennanb2025 in #28595
A refused steer leaves its turn as the chat's latest request by @brennanb2025 in #29907
A Codex chat is Working only while Codex holds the send by @brennanb2025 in #29922
Pause an agent's chat starts while its shared sign-in changes by @brennanb2025 in #28649
The queue button you pressed shows a working spinner by @brennanb2025 in #30010
Mark each attached image as [Image #N] where it sits in the prompt by @AmoabaKelvin in #28736
Keep a restored agent’s status unconfirmed after 30 minutes instead of marking it done by @nwparker in #30186
Show why the chat composer is locked and offer Take back when a phone holds the input by @nwparker in #30199
Antigravity install: one clear message in the chat, with the message box staying in place by @brennanb2025 in #30001
Session History: the scan line under the search box no longer jumps during a refresh by @brennanb2025 in #30158
Sign in to Antigravity chats with the server’s own Google sign-in by @brennanb2025 in #28650
Move a chat visual's Open and Share buttons above it by @AmoabaKelvin in #30356
A Claude chat keeps a model its CLI stopped listing by @brennanb2025 in #30436

Agents, integrations & accounts

Switch Claude accounts with a restart offer, manage downloaded runtimes, edit Linear comments, and keep terminal sessions and GitLab task searches reliable.

Edit and delete Linear comments from the Orca CLI by @brennanb2025 in #30003
Remove a downloaded agent runtime from its Settings row by @brennanb2025 in #29140
Follow an Orca Claude account switch when the shell sets CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR by @Jinwoo-H in #29890
Offer to restart running Claude sessions on the new account after a switch by @Jinwoo-H in #29898
Remove a downloaded agent runtime only after nothing on its host can still run it by @brennanb2025 in #29139
Let jcode's own client start its per-pane server by @brennanb2025 in #30257
Run the Antigravity usage check with agy's auto-update off by @OrcaWin in #30387
Quit no longer warns about terminals a paired Orca server keeps running by @nwparker in #30006
Resume a relaunched workspace's sleeping agents only when shown by @Jinwoo-H in #29459
One spawn step writes a terminal's pane identity for both ways Orca opens terminals by @brennanb2025 in #29884
Tell users once that the diff panel in a Claude pane is Claude's own by @AmoabaKelvin in #29818
Keep OMP prompt markers from ending an agent’s turn so phone chat can find its session by @nwparker in #30273
Avoid duplicate snapshot replays after reveal by @nwparker in #30205
Keep OMP prompt markers from triggering unnecessary terminal repair by @nwparker in #30285
Limit concurrent GitLab project requests to keep task searches within the queue limit by @maxmilian in #30157

SSH, managed servers & remote

Keep disconnects, sleeping workspaces and closed tabs consistent, preserve workspace identity during server moves, and recover with clearer update and re-pairing guidance.

Stop suggesting --host to listings that reject it by @nwparker in #30012
Explain why file open fails on a server with no app window by @nwparker in #30014
A host converted to its managed server keeps its workspaces' visit recency by @nwparker in #30015
Link a folder workspace the server kept when a re-created SSH host moves again (#27285) by @nwparker in #30017
A password SSH host waits for you at launch instead of prompting by @nwparker in #30025
Make the host's tab name the one source for CLI and desktop renames by @nwparker in #30037
A slept remote workspace stays asleep through terminal orphan recovery by @nwparker in #30118
A Disconnect stays disconnected, and Settings and the status bar agree by @nwparker in #30130
Orca serve on orcad serves the browser client and answers plain HTTP by @nwparker in #30120
A tab closed while a managed host is disconnected stays closed; deflake the shared-home spec by @nwparker in #30146
Paired clients see a folder-upgraded Git project under the host workspace id by @nwparker in #30190
Move the open workspace to the server's linked project when joining an existing server by @nwparker in #30189
Saved terminal history no longer blocks a host's move to its Orca server (#30126) by @nwparker in #30188
Say when a managed server may be behind this app, and retry a failed update once per launch by @nwparker in #30218
A late relay-era attach releases only its own viewer, never a successor's by @nwparker in #30219
Report a legacy relay host active once a day while it bridges terminals by @nwparker in #30229
SSH host management on a server without the desktop app says why it can't (D3) by @nwparker in #30242
A connection never redials a host the user disconnected before its teardown runs by @nwparker in #30245
Refuse a migration request too large for the host's sealed frame before sending it by @nwparker in #30249
Overlapping update checks never both try a host the first one just failed on by @nwparker in #30253
Show Re-pair required for revoked servers and let you re-pair in place by @nwparker in #30271

Phone

Edit queued messages in place, follow tool runs, resume conversations with their history visible, and navigate files, Tasks and landscape session tabs more smoothly.

Edit queued messages in place by @brennanb2025 in #28646
One Working line in every chat; drop the floating 'Agent is working' pill by @brennanb2025 in #29972
The chat's Working line uses desktop's spinner by @brennanb2025 in #30008
Keep a headless host's chat tab through snapshot rebuilds by @nwparker in #30028
Prevent markdown and file tab reload and screen flicker on retap and revisit by @zhangxaochen in #30033
Show the update screen instead of native screens when the desktop has no page by @Jinwoo-H in #29956
Allow Markdown refresh during desktop tab snapshots by @nwparker in #30040
Draw the host Accounts screen from the desktop's page by @Jinwoo-H in #30020
Ask which desktop to open Tasks on when several are connected by @Jinwoo-H in #30048
Show which desktop the mobile Tasks screen is for by @Jinwoo-H in #30105
A compact phone queue: shorter header, a capped scrolling list, and an editor that fits the card by @brennanb2025 in #30016
Draw chat tool runs the way desktop does by @AmoabaKelvin in #30135
Render Source Control on the phone for large branches by @nwparker in #30215
A session resumed from the phone's history shows its conversation before the first new turn (#10923) by @nwparker in #30283
Break the transport and terminal-document import cycles, and gate cycles after mobile's install by @nwparker in #30290
Put the session tabs in the top bar on a landscape phone by @brennanb2025 in #29070

Workspaces, sidebar & tabs

Protect same-path workspaces on different machines, explain cross-host actions, keep shortcuts on the focused split, and make notices and tab previews steadier.

Main produces per-workspace activity facts, checked against the window in dev and test by @Jinwoo-H in #29980
Stop the notice stack flickering under a resting mouse, and fit the force-delete button to its notice by @brennanb2025 in #29878
ResolveOwner refuses folder and project-group twins instead of guessing this computer by @nwparker in #30009
Main publishes desktop focus, pins, project and host order, and SSH/WSL host state, checked against the window in dev and test by @Jinwoo-H in #30018
Main keeps one live set of paired-server rows, checked against the window in dev and test by @Jinwoo-H in #30027
Main produces per-workspace PR facts, checked against the window in dev and test by @Jinwoo-H in #30026
Main keeps a registry of workspace creations in progress, checked against the window in dev and test by @Jinwoo-H in #30021
Ui.setCollapsed changes one section's collapse without undoing another device by @Jinwoo-H in #30044
Say so when a project cannot join a group on another host by @nwparker in #30127
Draw a project group once when two hosts publish it under one id by @nwparker in #30128
A host-scoped purge leaves a surviving twin's tabs and edits alone by @nwparker in #30030
Destructive host callers refuse an ambiguous owner instead of reading it as local by @nwparker in #30035
Fold getExplicitRuntimeEnvironmentIdForWorktree callers into resolveOwner by @nwparker in #30059
Confirm before sleeping a workspace that another host's copy shares by @nwparker in #30047
Shrink twin-removal teardown to the attributed close actions by @nwparker in #30060
Tighten the host-identity stack by @nwparker in #30124
Stop CLI-created worktrees flashing into a filtered sidebar by @nwparker in #30194
Say a Linear task-status skip was for a multi-host workspace by @nwparker in #30243
Apply Quick Command shortcuts and pane actions to the focused split by @AmethystLiang in #30258
Show when a paired server’s access is revoked or an update is required by @nwparker in #30280
Wait for the full hover delay before showing each tab preview by @AmethystLiang in #30388

Editor, files & Markdown

Reveal files from their header menu and run notebook cells only when their workspace belongs to this computer.

Reveal a file in Finder from its header menu by @nwparker in #30129
Run cells only when the resolved owner is this computer by @nwparker in #30187

Browser

Open hosting-provider websites from Cmd/Ctrl+J and clean up browser tabs on hosts without a browser engine.

Let Cmd+J open hosting-provider domains like github.io by @AmethystLiang in #29989
A client-hosted ghost tab closes on a host with no browser engine by @nwparker in #30119

Performance & reliability

Retry failed shell PATH checks and speed up development typechecking with a pinned Bun dependency.

Retry the shell PATH check and fall back when the shell cannot launch by @nwparker in #30204
Pin Bun as a devDependency and typecheck with it by @nwparker in #30149

Tests, CI & maintenance

Broader regression coverage, dependency updates and internal cleanup support the changes above. Work on host-owned layouts and sidebar state remains behind disabled build switches.

Brand host-scoped worktree and repo keys for new code by @nwparker in #29990
Agree with main on main-made terminal tabs and sleeping-agent records (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #29967
Agree with main on first-group ids, tab order and the preview flag (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #29987
Record chat tab opens and closes in main (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30019
Record the chat pane the window picks in main (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30036
Open into the window's emptied pane beside a split branch in one layout command (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30039
Write no false preview flag on a new or promoted tab (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30041
Record simulator tab opens and closes in main (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30034
Put main's sidebar inputs behind the ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS dark build switch by @Jinwoo-H in #30050
Main serves workspace icons as small data URLs for the phone (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30046
Floating editor files keep one id from open (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30109
Main keeps the list's time rules on one clock, checked against the window (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30104
Main's layout Loader keeps one pane per terminal on restore (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30110
Main records a Quick Command tab's label when the tab is created (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30112
Save-divergence detector: skip empty workspaces, see dropped tab-bar entries and kept pane trees (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30125
A background agent tab keeps its live title when another tab opens (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30131
Dark phone feed of the sidebar inputs (sidebarInputs.read) by @Jinwoo-H in #30161
Pane titles stay layout: the window stops writing tab names as pane titles, and main loads them as the window does (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30136
Main's temporal owner reads the catalog the way the window does (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30166
Main produces this host's workspace rows, checked against the window (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30184
One placement helper for drawn tab opens (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30174
Main drops the layout of workspaces the catalog no longer validates (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30177
Reopening a file in its open tab sends the main process the changed file record (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30197
Main repairs a terminal stored in two panes once at startup (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30178
Main records when a workspace's default tabs were applied (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30176
Main keeps editor tabs under owned ids and in-place re-owns in step (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30206
Refuse a layout change on a workspace a WSL move has paused (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30198
Main routes folders by the window's host rule and never stops layout frames (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30201
Phone and old-client tab lists keep editor tabs under owned ids (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30216
One comparison-only worktreeIdentityKey replaces three key wrappers by @nwparker in #30217
One worktree path equality; the ipc copy folded WSL ext4 tails by @nwparker in #30227
The host that owns a workspace stamps its Recent and Smart keys (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30235
After a restart, the host clears sort tiers nothing backs any more (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30259
Drop the runtimeWorktreeIdsEqual alias; name the WSL hook relay gate for what it gates by @nwparker in #30264
Main routes a project registered on two machines to the same owner the window saves to (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30196
Window saves stop carrying tab and pane layout; main keeps its own (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30282
The window's layout stream reconnects after a drop; a retried quit still sends resume records (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30380
Only the tabs the window just changed wait for main's answer; the window-wide layout hold goes (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30384
Sort Recent and Smart by the owning host's stamps, hold order under the pointer (dark) by @Jinwoo-H in #30284
Renderer hydration cutoffs read main's status retention window by @nwparker in #30248
One isRemoteExecutionHostPtyId, on prefix semantics by @nwparker in #30232
Drop remote-pty checks the shared predicate already covers by @nwparker in #30256
One isLocalExecutionHost in shared by @nwparker in #30241
Import orcad helpers from their owning modules; delete the orcad-runtime-lifecycle re-export shim by @nwparker in #30265
Move runtime/relay to runtime/mobile-cloud-relay by @nwparker in #30274
Import mobile-cloud-relay and browser-host helpers from their owning modules by @nwparker in #30279
SSH pane terminals and local-to-SSH tab moves reach main directly (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30281
Import system-ssh and ssh -G modules directly; delete the ssh-system-fallback re-export shim by @nwparker in #30255
Fence the legacy relay in ssh/legacy-relay/; live deploy primitives drop the relay name by @nwparker in #30292
Move orcad activation into src/main/managed-server/activation/ by @nwparker in #30320
Move port forwarding and hostile-host test harnesses into their own folders by @nwparker in #30277
Move the managed server's install and deploy code into src/main/managed-server/install/ by @nwparker in #30335
Move the managed server's lifecycle into src/main/managed-server/lifecycle/ by @nwparker in #30343
Move host state into src/main/managed-server/host-state/ by @nwparker in #30347
Group system-ssh transport, ssh config and remote exec into their own folders by @nwparker in #30355
Group SSH and runtime-environment IPC handlers into ipc/ssh/ and ipc/runtime-environments/ by @nwparker in #30362
Import ipc helpers from their owning modules, not re-export shims by @nwparker in #30369
Import renderer runtime, shared remote-runtime and orcad helpers from their owning modules by @nwparker in #30370
Import runtime helpers from their owning modules, not re-export shims by @nwparker in #30373
Import worktree, watcher and runtime-environment helpers from their owning modules by @nwparker in #30375
Send a browser tab's window times to main with its open (dark, layout-owner build only) by @Jinwoo-H in #29988
Move runtime/browser-host-* into runtime/browser-host/ by @nwparker in #30275
The common-dir check uses areWorktreePathsEqual by @nwparker in #30263
Every build is the OTA shell; drop the native/OTA build switch by @Jinwoo-H in #29969
Delete native screens the OTA shell no longer reaches by @Jinwoo-H in #29979
Name the vm transcript and mobile pending-write caps for what they count by @nwparker in #30251
Host-twin fixture and twin isolation suite for destructive and selection actions by @nwparker in #29991
Test that main and the window agree on a worktree identity rekey (tests only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30005
Read isStructuredTab from the shared module the newest release defines it in by @brennanb2025 in #30000
Open and close structured chat tabs with an isolated Claude stand-in by @Jinwoo-H in #30011
Ratchet importers of the deprecated runtime-owner resolvers by @nwparker in #30002
Fix a timing-dependent hang in the PTY launch race test (CI only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30132
Update vulnerable dependencies and prune stale overrides by @nwparker in #30143
Make the hidden split-pane exit test exit cleanly (test only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30162
Wait for git status before the discard confirmation test acts (test only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30165
Reduce lint dependencies with Oxlint by @nwparker in #30180
Pin the CocoaPods installer used by iOS releases by @nwparker in #30181
Guard: older sessions' moved editor tabs get the right workspace id (tests only) by @Jinwoo-H in #30172
Lock routine React Doctor and Knip execution by @nwparker in #30183
Remove unused desktop and mobile declarations by @nwparker in #30182
Ship the locked skills installer instead of executing npx by @nwparker in #30185
Simplify CocoaPods pin checks by reusing existing Ruby CI by @nwparker in #30208
Start the managed-SSH lane for remote product changes no route names by @nwparker in #30210
Revert bundled skills installer; restore pinned skills@1.7.2 by @nwparker in #30207
Fail when Electron and orcad wire the runtime differently without a reason by @nwparker in #30212
Delete the rollout-flag module nothing reads by @nwparker in #30211
Delete the never-served TLS branch of the LAN WebSocket server by @nwparker in #30220
Freeze the clock in the explicit-binary timeout test by @nwparker in #30221
Delete unimported SSH, renderer and orchestration modules by @nwparker in #30214
ORCA_FEATURE_REMOTE_AGENT_HOOKS now only gates the WSL hook relay by @nwparker in #30223
Fail when orca serve's serve-selection entry or its chunks stay packed (#27404 guard) by @nwparker in #30228
Fail when CI config, workflows or e2e code name a src/ file that no longer exists by @nwparker in #30224
Orca serve's command line makes orcad serve the web client (#30120 regression) by @nwparker in #30222
Start the managed-SSH lane for every helper only its specs import by @nwparker in #30233
Native-ignore watcher test waits on delivered events, not a fixed sleep by @nwparker in #30236
Start the remote host lanes and cross-version job for the transport code they execute by @nwparker in #30239
Windows CLI matrix convert cell uses the convert helper that exists by @nwparker in #30231
Pin the 12 hand-kept error-code lists to their callers' policy by @nwparker in #30246
Path-literal check scans live gate references; historical gate commands move to currentCommand by @nwparker in #30252
ComposeWorktreeId plus a ratchet on hand-built worktree ids by @nwparker in #30238
Resolve macOS tmpdir realpath in create-intent and clone tests by @nwparker in #30268
Tighten the round-2 parity, serve and watcher tests by @nwparker in #30267
Compatibility folders name their entry modules instead of an index barrel by @nwparker in #30269
Ratchet type errors under tests/ so a broken spec import can't land unnoticed by @nwparker in #30286
Ratchet the legacy relay fence (importers of ssh/legacy-relay/ and COMPAT seams) by @nwparker in #30317
Format the resume and transcript files main left unformatted by @brennanb2025 in #30137

New Contributors

@zhangxaochen made their first contribution in #30033
@maxmilian made their first contribution in #30157

Full Changelog: v1.4.229...v1.4.230

stablyai/orca v1.4.230 1.4.230 on GitHub