stablyai/orca v1.4.241 on GitHub

Chats and a browser that behave the way you expect 🧭

This release makes chats follow your agent settings, brings Chrome-style tools to the built-in browser, and helps SSH connections and managed servers recover. You’ll also find a chat font setting, live agent browsing, and steadier Hermes, Kimi, Kiro and Windows terminals.

The short version

Chats that follow your settings: New chats use each agent’s permission from Settings → Agents, renamed chats keep their names in Session History, and a chat won’t write a conversation a terminal is still running.
A browser closer to Chrome: Dock DevTools inside the pane, mute tabs playing sound, see a link’s URL on hover, and use Orca shortcuts and mouse back/forward inside pages.
Watch agents browse: A cursor and badge show where an agent is clicking or typing, chat jumps you to the page, and links from terminals and chat open beside their source.
SSH with fewer dead ends: Saved port forwards return after a restart and explain failures, certificate-only hosts connect through your system ssh, and managed servers update without closing terminals.
Agents that start and resume reliably: Hermes and Kimi panes resume after a restart, Kiro reports status on its V3 engine, and keys typed while an agent starts are kept as a draft.
Polish where it counts: Pick a font for chat, zoom with Cmd/Ctrl + + on non-US keyboards, open cloud-only files from macOS terminals, and get steadier Windows terminals and pasting.

Phone & web updates: Phones no longer drop pieces of terminal output, and chat renames and each chat’s permission mode now show there. Session tabs also keep Working and Needs You for Windows agents that never set a title.

Compatibility & upgrade notes

Fresh terminal host: New terminals start on a fresh terminal host so this release’s terminal fixes apply. Terminals already open before you update keep running, and stay attached, on the previous host until you close them.
Chat permissions: Settings → Chat no longer has its own permission dropdown; set it per agent in Settings → Agents. Existing chats keep their saved permission, and a chat’s own permission menu changes only that chat.
Conversations open in a terminal: If a terminal might still be writing a conversation, its chat won’t send and asks you to quit the agent there or close that terminal. Closing that terminal lets the next send go through.
Managed SSH servers: Update anyway keeps running terminals going through the update. The offer to resume chats after a restart needs a server already running this release.
OpenCode model picks: OpenCode 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.17 and 2.0.18 leave the first message unsent when a model is picked, so Orca refuses model picks on those versions.

Product experience

Native chat (experimental)

Chats share your agent settings, keep their names, and stay out of conversations a terminal is still writing.

Start new chats with each agent’s permission setting from Settings → Agents, the same as terminals by @brennanb2025 in #32334
Never start a chat’s agent on a conversation a terminal is still writing, and keep restored panes from resuming a conversation an open chat holds by @brennanb2025 in #30930
Save chat renames as the chat’s name, so Session History, phones and other windows keep showing them after the tab closes by @brennanb2025 in #31602
Show turns made outside an OpenCode or Grok chat when the chat continues by @brennanb2025 in #31616
Offer to resume interrupted chats after a paired or managed server restarts or updates by @brennanb2025 in #28978
Add a custom font family setting for chat, with a preview and installed-font suggestions by @AmethystLiang in #33687
Retry a failed agent start before rejecting your message by @brennanb2025 in #33045
Keep goal text whose delivery is uncertain, and send each distinct goal control to the host by @brennanb2025 in #33022
Keep an idle Claude chat idle when a background task reports progress by @innocarpe in #22879
Fold Claude thinking-only transcript records into the reasoning section by @nwparker in #33344
Honour Claude Code’s rejected ANTHROPIC_API_KEY setting in chats by @nwparker in #33346
Keep long Pi replies with lots of thinking from stopping early by @nwparker in #33293
Reconnect an OMP chat when OMP drops its session by @nwparker in #33359
Keep a remembered effort for OMP models other than the running one in new chats by @nwparker in #33646
Stop refusing new Pi chats when a remembered effort is missing from the saved model list by @nwparker in #33637
Read WSL Claude transcripts through linked folders, so chats from Orca-managed Claude accounts load on mobile by @Kooooojun in #33172
Keep a resting Codex chat’s skills check from blocking worktree removal on Windows by @nwparker in #33569

Browser

Chrome-style DevTools, tab audio and link previews, plus a live view of agents using the browser.

Dock DevTools inside the browser pane, with dock side, resizing and pop-out by @AmoabaKelvin in #33003
Show a speaker icon on browser tabs playing sound, with tab mute by @AmoabaKelvin in #32981
Show a hovered or focused link’s URL in a bubble at the bottom of the page by @AmoabaKelvin in #32978
Make Orca shortcuts, split focus and mouse back/forward buttons work inside web pages by @AmoabaKelvin in #31859
Open browser links beside their source by @AmethystLiang in #32907
Show agent browsing live, with a jump to the page from chat by @AmoabaKelvin in #33075
Ask before sites use the local network by @AmoabaKelvin in #33399
Show bigger new tab tiles and a roomier workspace card by @AmoabaKelvin in #33178

Agent launch, status & accounts

Agents start on the first try, report the right status, resume in the right place, and keep the right account.

Keep the permission pill inside Arguments and share the Permissions menu by @brennanb2025 in #32971
Skip Codex’s startup update prompt when Orca launches Codex by @nwparker in #33355
Keep keys typed into a starting agent pane as an unsubmitted draft by @nwparker in #33315
Press Enter again while a Windows Codex composer is still reading a long task by @nwparker in #33295
Press Enter again while DeepSeek Harness’s launchpad still holds the prompt by @nwparker in #33316
Make flagged --command agent launches wait for the agent’s screen to be ready by @nwparker in #33466
Deliver Devin launch prompts on its command line instead of typing them after start by @nwparker in #33349
Start a Claude worker on its composer when its terminal title is turned off by @nwparker in #33384
Pre-trust the folder for Kimi Code so its trust menu does not swallow the prompt by @nwparker in #33411
Refuse model picks on OpenCode 2.x releases that drop the startup prompt by @nwparker in #33436
Recognize Qwen Code launched through Node on Windows by @nwparker in #33461
Keep Codex from reading as idle while its plan menu is showing after its Stop hook by @nwparker in #33335
Let a settled screen clear a blocked-prompt state left over after the agent erased its dialog by @nwparker in #33485
Show Needs You while a Claude MCP elicitation dialog is open by @nwparker in #33517
Let a pane’s own agent reclaim its status from a nested agent’s hooks by @nwparker in #33572
Keep agent status on a terminal moved into a new tab after a restart by @nwparker in #33601
Stop an Antigravity subagent finishing from ending its parent’s turn by @nwparker in #33645
Keep Pi in-process subagent sessions from taking over the lead pane by @nwparker in #33595
Follow Claude sessions continued into a daemon job by @nwparker in #33605
Keep launch flags on a woken agent’s record so a restart restores them by @nwparker in #33523
Resume an agent from the folder it ran in, not the pane’s starting folder by @nwparker in #33527
Resume Hermes panes after a restart, on the pane’s own session by @nwparker in #33514
Keep a finished Hermes pane done when its background memory review calls tools by @nwparker in #33418
Use the Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes home for Hermes hooks and session history by @nwparker in #33413
Recognize Hermes readiness and its installed launcher by @nwparker in #33606
Keep a resumed Kimi pane resumable across the next Orca restart by @nwparker in #33489
Report Kiro status on Kiro’s V3 engine, including the built-in default agent by @nwparker in #33660
Run the native Windows Claude hook for profile paths with spaces by @nwparker in #33364
Exit skipped Windows hook replays without waiting on input by @nwparker in #33470
Let the WSL hook relay run on the Orca server’s bundled Node by @nwparker in #33089
Show DeepSeek Harness rows for WSL terminals on Windows by @denchu-unagi in #31205
Start Claude Agent Teams teammates on headless Linux servers by @nwparker in #33389
Capture Git Bash agent environments with native Windows paths by @nwparker in #33619
Write folder trust into the managed Codex account home the launch uses by @nwparker in #33377
Apply global ~/.codex/rules in Orca-managed Codex homes by @nwparker in #33493
Migrate resumed Windows Codex sessions whose transcript path has a \?\ prefix by @nwparker in #33558
Index a new WSL Codex account home before bringing history into it by @nwparker in #33630
Read the sign-in link Codex prints on stderr when adding a Codex account by @nwparker in #29811
Keep the old Codex login until re-authentication finishes, and relabel swapped account homes by @nwparker in #33568
Keep the selected Antigravity account after agy refreshes its token by @nwparker in #33656
Resume Claude in the folder it was started in after an account-switch restart by @nwparker in #33659
Leave your node or python program alone after a Claude account switch by @adifsgaid in #30328
Share folders Claude created in an account folder before its first setup by @nwparker in #33479
Show an idle Claude account whose access token lapsed as waiting for Claude, not signed out by @nwparker in #33542
Show a Claude Enterprise seat’s monthly spend cap when it has no 5-hour or weekly window by @nwparker in #33655
Count fork-copied Codex token events once in usage by @nwparker in #33478
Show Codex usage while Codex’s session index is stuck rebuilding by @nwparker in #33636
Keep Codex automation and agent-created threads in Agent Session History by @nwparker in #33477
List Claude sessions stored under a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR set only in your login shell by @nwparker in #33506

Orchestration

Mail reaches workers when they can take it, and worker starts fail clearly instead of stalling.

Let a new orca orchestration check --wait start while an old one is still waiting by @Jinwoo-H in #33013
Wake an agent for new mail even while it still holds an unacknowledged batch by @Jinwoo-H in #33639
Point idle headless terminals at their mail by @nwparker in #33258
Submit mail pointers to Cursor CLI instead of leaving them in the composer by @nwparker in #33347
Hold mail pointers while the agent shows an open dialog by @nwparker in #33366
Hold mail pointers while the composer has an unsent draft by @nwparker in #33429
Press Enter again when DeepSeek Harness’s launchpad refuses a worker’s first task by @nwparker in #33499
Start Antigravity workers in a terminal when its chat runtime isn’t installed by @nwparker in #33520
Fail a Codex worker’s dispatch when its session can’t reconnect by @nwparker in #33543
Let worker-start reuse an idle native-install Claude terminal by @nwparker in #33544
Paste CLI prompts as one block for every recognized agent, not just Claude and Codex by @nwparker in #33571

Terminals

A fresh terminal host, steadier Windows terminals, and history and folders that survive sleep, restarts and phones.

Start new terminals on a fresh terminal host so this release’s terminal fixes apply by @Jinwoo-H in #33705
Respawn a Windows ConPTY pane that started without keyboard input by @nwparker in #33423
Keep a Windows terminal’s output-relay write error from stopping the terminal host by @nwparker in #33391
Send Ctrl+Enter to Claude Code on Windows in the form it understands by @nwparker in #33473
Preserve OpenCode Ctrl+Enter on Windows by @Pr1p in #33149
Keep Windows Codex multiline Ctrl+V and Edit > Paste as one draft by @nwparker in #33339
Keep restored history when ConPTY repaints after a resize by @nwparker in #33577
Apply the terminal host’s ConPTY resize rule in the window too by @nwparker in #33584
Send ESC d for Option+Forward-Delete on macOS by @nwparker in #33296
Let macOS terminal shells download cloud-only files by @Jinwoo-H in #33623
Show the stalled terminal host banner when the host is actually stalled by @Jinwoo-H in #33000
Bound folder permission checks while creating terminal sessions by @AmethystLiang in #33643
Clean up an agent’s leftover tools when closing a plain shell pane on macOS and Linux by @nwparker in #33317
Let agents run exit hooks before an immediate close force-quits them by @nwparker in #33367
Don’t resume an agent whose terminal is still running by @nwparker in #33380
Keep fish’s startup terminal reply out of the Codex composer by @nwparker in #33381
Wait for escape sequences to finish before resetting the cursor of an idle agent by @nwparker in #33616
Keep split color sequences intact during a quiet terminal restore by @nwparker in #33677
Stop false recovery warnings in running full-screen programs when pane sizing is slow by @nwparker in #33474
Confirm a live agent has exited before resetting its mouse modes by @nwparker in #33603
Start a woken pane’s new prompt on its own line when reattached by @nwparker in #33494
Let Kiro’s terminal relay release the shell-ready wait by @nwparker in #33495
Finish saving history before a shutdown’s connection can close by @nwparker in #33504
Keep desktop history when a hidden pane is revealed by @nwparker in #33534
Keep desktop terminal history after a phone opens the terminal by @nwparker in #33537
Wake a slept WSL pane on Windows in the folder its shell was in by @nwparker in #33398
Keep history and folder for a slept pane the relaunched app had not reopened yet by @nwparker in #33425
Keep the folder of a WSL pane a relaunched window reattached when it is slept by @nwparker in #33496
Reopen a slept agent whose tab is gone in a fresh tab instead of stranding it by @nwparker in #33598

SSH & remote servers

Port forwards that come back, more hosts that connect, and managed servers you can update without closing terminals.

Bring saved SSH port forwards back after a restart that reconnects through the host’s Orca server by @nwparker in #33388
Show saved SSH port forwards that couldn’t start, with the reason, and let you remove them by @nwparker in #33450
Retry over system ssh when the built-in client shares no algorithm with the host by @nwparker in #33680
Add Update and Update anyway for a managed SSH server, keeping its running terminals by @nwparker in #33397
Move an SSH host onto its managed server even when a pane saved no terminal history by @nwparker in #33681
Explain that adding a project on a paired server’s SSH host isn’t supported yet by @nwparker in #33284
Drop a paired server’s old workspace rows when it relists them under new project ids by @nwparker in #33396
Keep one paired runtime’s updates from dropping another runtime’s terminals in a shared workspace by @nwparker in #33414
Fix orca agent hooks commands on headless Orca servers by @nwparker in #33700
Drive Android emulators from headless orca serve hosts by @nwparker in #33701

Workspaces, sidebar & everyday polish

Workspaces stay on the right branch and dialogs don’t get stuck, with quicker previews and tidier sidebar controls.

Keep each same-path workspace copy on its own host’s branch by @nwparker in #33428
Start the agent when a workspace is opened during creation by @nwparker in #33562
Keep the create-worktree dialog from getting stuck on a stalled setup step by @OrcaWin in #33400
Explain the shallow-clone warning for keeping local main up to date, and let you stop the refresh by @OrcaWin in #33260
Keep the Jira Board view selected in Tasks after you leave the page by @kazuki-hanai in #30588
Keep the workspace hover card open behind link actions by @OrcaWin in #33409
Close the link chooser when you click elsewhere on a hover card by @nwparker in #33679
Show tab previews after 500 ms instead of 800 ms by @AmethystLiang in #33447
Keep the sidebar header buttons in place when switching to Activity by @AmethystLiang in #33648
Give the notification bell room for its status and count by @AmethystLiang in #33683
Make Cmd/Ctrl + zoom in on non-US keyboards by @AmoabaKelvin in #33014
Keep Orca CLI commands working in sandboxes that deny chmod by @nwparker in #33662

Phone & web

Phones keep every piece of terminal output and the right agent status, and explain what they can’t show.

Stop phones losing pieces of terminal output by @nwparker in #33405
Keep Working and Needs You in a phone’s session tabs on Windows agents that never set a title by @nwparker in #33614
Explain why a file outside the workspace can’t be shown on the phone by @nwparker in #33341

Tests, builds & maintenance

Broader behavioral coverage with fewer low-value tests, faster local checks and dev setup, continued module organization, a repository-wide comment cleanup, and relay service improvements.

All test, build and maintenance changes

Log the relay director’s zone and round-trip speed on each runtime line by @Jinwoo-H in #33372
Cap how many reserve relay cells a director outage sends to the database by @Jinwoo-H in #33415
Build the macOS terminal host on a patched Node runtime to recover stalled workers (reverted later in this release, apart from its stall telemetry) by @nwparker in #29133
Return the macOS terminal host to official Node, keeping stall telemetry by @Jinwoo-H in #33688
Clean up after the agent integration fixes by @nwparker in #33644
Repair main’s line limits and a stale test import by @brennanb2025 in #33675
Complete the repository-wide comment cleanup by @OrcaWin in #33249
Finish the launcher and configuration comment review by @OrcaWin in #33513
Fix suppressed lint violations instead of ignoring them by @OrcaWin in #33294
Split STYLEGUIDE.md into a core guide plus topic deep dives by @nwparker in #33402
Add component fixtures with headless screenshots for fast UI checks by @nwparker in #33406
Give coding agents TypeScript 7 code intelligence, with load-aware type checkers by @nwparker in #33408
Give each worktree its own pnpm dev profile, ports and seeded profiles by @nwparker in #33416
Skip mobile dev-client rebuilds when the native fingerprint is unchanged by @nwparker in #33410
Move mobile to TypeScript 7, Vitest 5 and the root typecheck runner by @nwparker in #33419
Speed up the local test loop and changed-test runs in cold worktrees by @nwparker in #33421
Keep JS plugins out of default oxlint and adopt ast-grep by @nwparker in #33430
Make pnpm check:changed the single pre-handoff check by @nwparker in #33432
Add an opt-in bundled renderer dev mode by @nwparker in #33433
Serve the renderer with bundled dev mode by default by @nwparker in #33449
Drop the load-based type checker cap by @nwparker in #33444
Skip the mobile native fingerprint report on draft PRs by @nwparker in #33438
Rerun a WSL2 CI job once when its hosted runner freezes by @nwparker in #33532
Run topology SQLite fixture tests in Node by @nwparker in #33533
refactor: group agent-session conversation and message identity by @nwparker in #33324
refactor: group PTY delivery and drain ownership by @nwparker in #33358
refactor: group mobile chat composer ownership by @nwparker in #33390
refactor: group Parcel watcher process ownership by @nwparker in #33401
refactor: group local and WSL filesystem watchers by @nwparker in #33407
refactor: group filesystem IPC registration and suites by @nwparker in #33458
refactor(native-chat): group tool attribution modules by @nwparker in #33482
refactor: group native chat edit and patch modules by @nwparker in #33497
refactor: organize native chat tool content and presentation by @nwparker in #33515
refactor: group PTY bindings and lifecycle suites by @nwparker in #33566
refactor: group renderer session launch lifecycle by @nwparker in #33586
refactor: group local filesystem guards and search owners by @nwparker in #33624
refactor(mobile): group native chat send and stream state by @nwparker in #33640
test(connectors): drive a connector conversation end to end on a headless serve host by @Jinwoo-H in #33613
Stabilize notification dispatch tests with fixed timestamps by @AmethystLiang in #33698
test(git-bash): give ssh-agent a load-tolerant bound in the Windows pane proof by @nwparker in #33287
test(windows): read the grandchild pid from accumulated pane output by @nwparker in #33320
test(browser): route input into the baseline sandboxed frame before clicking it by @nwparker in #33330
test(mobile-web): act on the HTML preview frame only once input reaches it by @nwparker in #33336
test(windows): warm WMI before timing the NSIS capability probe by @nwparker in #33340
test(mobile-web): click the drawer chip once it is actionable, and honour the wait timeouts by @nwparker in #33342
test(terminal): load the alt-screen chain’s host graph at collection by @nwparker in #33343
test: run released-phone compatibility checks under Node by @nwparker in #33480
test(runtime): compare existing-folder imports against the resolved temp path by @nwparker in #33540
test: honor startup paste timer delays and cancellation by @nwparker in #33550
test: remove duplicate checks and repair weak fixtures by @OrcaWin in #33353
test: remove redundant cases and strengthen regression assertions by @OrcaWin in #33356
test: remove 13 low-value checks and strengthen runtime coverage by @OrcaWin in #33373
test: remove redundant checks and repair audit coverage gaps by @OrcaWin in #33385
test: remove redundant checks and repair misleading fixtures by @OrcaWin in #33394
test: remove self-validating checks and repair behavioral coverage by @OrcaWin in #33412
Remove low-value test inventories and repair behavioral assertions by @OrcaWin in #33437
test: remove seven low-value cases and repair behavioral assertions by @OrcaWin in #33453
test: remove schema inventory and strengthen boundary coverage by @OrcaWin in #33476
test: exercise boundary assertions and repair audit fixtures by @OrcaWin in #33483
test: verify retry identities and complete boundary outputs by @OrcaWin in #33491
test: remove redundant checks and strengthen runtime assertions by @OrcaWin in #33498
test: remove duplicate diff cases and repair audit fixtures by @OrcaWin in #33503
test: remove mock-only cases and repair audit fixtures by @OrcaWin in #33509
test: repair CLI and mobile fixtures and remove duplicate checks by @OrcaWin in #33518
test: strengthen CLI and mobile behavior checks by @OrcaWin in #33526
test: strengthen CLI errors and mobile lifecycle checks by @OrcaWin in #33529
test: strengthen transport lifecycle and benchmark checks by @OrcaWin in #33538
test: strengthen transport recovery and benchmark assertions by @OrcaWin in #33547
test: tighten transport, recovery, and diagnostic checks by @OrcaWin in #33559
test: strengthen relay, persistence, and benchmark checks by @OrcaWin in #33563
test: tighten relay assertions and repair benchmark checks by @OrcaWin in #33573
test: remove redundant checks and tighten runtime query coverage by @OrcaWin in #33583
test: remove redundant metadata checks and strengthen runtime coverage by @OrcaWin in #33611
test: remove redundant renderer and shared checks and strengthen assertions by @OrcaWin in #33625
test: strengthen Git and Linear assertions and remove redundant checks by @OrcaWin in #33633
test: strengthen watcher and mobile async assertions by @OrcaWin in #33641
test: strengthen filesystem and settings coverage; remove redundant cases by @OrcaWin in #33652

New Contributors

@adifsgaid made their first contribution in #30328
@denchu-unagi made their first contribution in #31205
@Kooooojun made their first contribution in #33172

Full Changelog: v1.4.240...v1.4.241