stablyai/orca v1.4.254 on GitHub

Git Graph, on-phone dictation & side questions in chat ✨

🌳 See the whole repository: A new Git Graph tab shows local and remote branches and tags, with each commit's details and changed files. Folder workspaces now get Source Control, with a card for each attached repo, and the branch name in Source Control switches or creates a branch in place.
💬 Ask without derailing a chat: In Chat UI, /btw asks a side question in a fork beside the chat while the original keeps running, and /fork branches from the latest response. Chats that open or push to a pull request show a short line when its CI passes or fails.
🎙️ Dictate from anywhere: Phones can turn speech into text on the device (iPhone on iOS 26 or later, and Android), with the computer as fallback. The computer, phones and web client can dictate at the same time, and on-device dictation runs in its own process, so a speech engine crash or hang no longer takes Orca down.
📱 A phone that holds on to your work: Chat sends queue while the desktop is unreachable and go out in order when it's back. Chat drafts, attachments, unsaved file edits and automation drafts survive the app being killed, and screens reopen from what the phone already has.
⌨️ No more typing lag from Codex accounts: Typing could lag across Orca while it linked Codex history between accounts. That work no longer blocks the app. Remote terminals also send a lone keystroke right away and read compressed output from remote hosts.
🔐 Safer pairing and trust: A pairing code stops working once the device that used it saves its own sign-in, desktop and CLI connections to remote servers use the newer encryption, and orca serve refuses connections from public internet addresses unless there's a reason to allow them. Orca asks once per new repo before trusting it for agents.
🎨 Make Orca yours: Import your own app icon, let theme plugins play a looping background video and ship their own fonts, and read Settings in titled cards. Claude Code can match your Orca terminal theme if you say yes.
🤖 Better agent support: Antigravity chats can run on the host's own agy, including Full access chats, and Muse shows its subscription quota in the status bar.

Highlights

Chat: /btw asks a side question in a fork and /fork forks from the latest response, with a spinner while the fork opens. Chats show CI results for the pull requests they opened or pushed to, and every waiting message, command and steer now sits in one ordered queue you can move, delete or send from.
Phone: Send while the desktop is offline, keep drafts, attachments, file edits and automation drafts across app kills, and see the workspace list, session tabs and Review from memory while they refresh. Large folders load 500 entries at a time with Search all, Review prefetches the next and previous file, and a thin line under the header shows when cached data is refreshing.
Dictation: Phones can transcribe on the device, and every device can dictate at once. On desktop the speech model loads before your first dictation (a new setting chooses when to unload it), dictation stops after a minute of silence and keeps what you said, dictated text gets a space before it, and text that can't be inserted is copied instead. The paired web client can dictate through the host.
Source control & editor: Git Graph, Source Control for folder workspaces, and an in-place branch picker in the Source Control header. Wholly new and deleted files show one clean tint, Markdown keeps its syntax colors under plugin themes, HTML previews open in the editor's own tab group, and Copy as PNG says when an image is too large instead of claiming it copied.
Agents & accounts: The Codex account-history typing lag is fixed. Antigravity chats can run on the host's agy when it's signed in, Antigravity sessions in AI Vault can reveal their artifacts folder, and Muse shows its quota and keeps panes working while background subagents run. The new-tab launch menu is simpler, the agent picker finds models from its submenus, and after a restart agents are told to finish the original task.
Remote hosts: Remote terminals respond to keystrokes sooner, desktop chats on remote hosts stream only the new text, and polling slows down while the Orca window is visible but not focused. Managed SSH servers recover after a slow ProxyCommand login and in more dead-server cases, and automations for a managed SSH host go to its own Orca server.
Look & feel: Import a custom app icon, use themed menus and clearer segmented controls, and use web fonts and looping background videos from plugins. Theme plugins can also style chat text and selection, which is now easier to read in dark mode. File and browser tabs fit their titles, so more fit before the tab strip scrolls.

Compatibility & upgrade notes

Claude Code theme matching: Orca can now match Claude Code's theme to your Orca terminal theme. It is off for everyone, including new profiles. The next time Claude Code runs, Orca asks once in a toast. Nothing in ~/.claude/settings.json changes unless you accept, and you can change it later in Settings › Appearance › Terminal.
Search shortcut: New Mac profiles open search with Cmd+K and have no default shortcut for clearing the terminal. New Windows and Linux profiles use Ctrl+K. Existing profiles keep their shortcuts, including custom and disabled ones.
Agent folder trust: The first time you start an agent in a new repo, Orca asks whether to trust the repo or let each agent ask for itself. Repos you already use keep working as before, with no prompt. You can change the answer in the repo's settings.
Single-use pairing codes: When an updated phone, browser or Orca pairs with an updated desktop, it switches to its own sign-in and the QR code or link it used stops working. Devices on older apps keep working, and Settings marks devices that still use the original pairing code or older encryption so you know which to update.
orca serve and public addresses: orca serve accepts localhost, LAN and Tailscale connections by default and accepts public internet addresses only when there's a reason to. Existing setups keep connecting.
Speech model memory: With voice on, Orca now loads the on-device speech model ahead of your first dictation. Use the new Unload Speech Model setting in Settings › Voice to free that memory sooner. Desktop dictation now also stops by itself after a minute of silence.
Windows terminal font weight: Terminal text on Windows now uses the font's Regular weight by default instead of Medium, which Windows drew as SemiBold. macOS and Linux are unchanged.
New-tab launch menu: Permissions and Arguments are no longer in the new-tab agent launch menu. They still come from Agent settings.
Onboarding: The Antigravity Install button in onboarding is gone. Antigravity has the same Install instructions link as every other agent.

Product experience

Native chat & agents

Ask side questions in a fork, fork from the latest reply, see CI results in chat and keep waiting messages in order.

/btw asks a side question in a fork beside the chat by @brennanb2025 in #39268
Add /fork to fork a chat from its latest response by @brennanb2025 in #39257
Show a spinner on the native chat Fork button while the fork opens by @brennanb2025 in #39255
Keep text typed past a picked /fork by @brennanb2025 in #39577
Show CI results in the chat that opened or pushed to a pull request by @brennanb2025 in #39020
Keep waiting chat input in one ordered queue by @brennanb2025 in #39271
Use one shared Hide button for chat cards by @brennanb2025 in #38999
Never draw a focus ring around the conversation by @brennanb2025 in #39214
Keep reopened OpenCode chats sending while effort options load by @brennanb2025 in #39223
Render markdown bold at semibold like chat headings by @nwparker in #39377
Improve chat ui rolleout by @AmethystLiang in #39420
Render streaming markdown block by block on every streaming surface by @nwparker in #39647

Agents & accounts

Type without lag while Codex history links across accounts, run Antigravity chats on your own agy, see Muse quota and optionally match Claude Code to your terminal theme.

Bridge account history with async directory diffs by @AmethystLiang in #39805
Do not count a dangling link raced into the target as bridged by @OrcaWin in #39862
Let the last-status throttle apply to routine hook events by @nwparker in #39826
Run Chat on the host's agy acp when compatible by @nwparker in #39006
Run Full access chats on the host's agy by @nwparker in #39471
Show Muse subscription quota in the status bar by @nwparker in #38907
Match Claude Code's theme to the Orca terminal theme by @nwparker in #39447
Ask before matching Claude Code's theme in every profile by @brennanb2025 in #39978
Back off failing federation relays instead of polling every second by @OrcaWin in #39734
Show one actionable error when an agent launch cannot prepare its workspace by @brennanb2025 in #37220
Hooks admit the lead's final reply with its turn; the launcher records undelivered prompts and proven exits by @Jinwoo-H in #38239
See a prompt's turn start while child work keeps the agent busy by @Jinwoo-H in #38394
Refuse ambiguous orchestration check callers by @Jinwoo-H in #38460
Keep the output of a worker whose terminal dies during startup by @Jinwoo-H in #38475
Report an idle worker once per coordinator message by @Jinwoo-H in #38484
Write workspace trust where cursor-agent reads it by @Jackylee1992 in #38807
Stop polling a Muse session log that has gone silent by @nwparker in #38902
Keep panes working while spawned background subagents run by @nwparker in #38911
Redesign Antigravity chat sign-in settings by @brennanb2025 in #39248
Simplify the new-tab agent launch menu by @brennanb2025 in #39279
Reveal an Antigravity session's artifacts folder by @nwparker in #39295
Hold an agy composer whose draft reads like an edit mode by @nwparker in #39296
Keep an Antigravity run working while its background command finishes by @nwparker in #39301
Stop scanning per-session folders for Claude transcripts by @AmoabaKelvin in #39302
Paste Copilot launch drafts as soon as its composer is ready by @nwparker in #39317
Resume original unfinished task after restart by @AmethystLiang in #39322
Condense restart continuation prompt by @AmethystLiang in #39349
Keep Gemini Enterprise chats off the host's agy by @nwparker in #39392
Cache OMP and Grok model discovery for desktop IPC too by @AmoabaKelvin in #39402
Search fallback models and show cached models while the list refreshes by @AmethystLiang in #39444
Pick the host's agy only when its sign-in serves sessions by @nwparker in #39452
Say why a downloaded chat runtime failed its start check by @nwparker in #39456
Read skill folders ahead of the walk, three reads at a time by @OrcaWin in #39836

Dictation & voice

Dictate on the phone itself, from several devices at once, and keep Orca running if the speech engine crashes.

Transcribe dictation on the phone, with the computer as fallback by @AmoabaKelvin in #39386
Transcribe dictation on iPhone with Apple's on-device speech model by @AmoabaKelvin in #39410
Transcribe dictation on Android phones on-device by @AmoabaKelvin in #39428
Let the computer, phones and web client dictate at the same time by @AmoabaKelvin in #39305
Run on-device dictation in its own process so an engine crash or hang can't take Orca down by @AmoabaKelvin in #39297
Load the speech model ahead of the first dictation, with an unload setting by @AmoabaKelvin in #39327
Stop desktop dictation after a minute of silence by @AmoabaKelvin in #39131
Space dictated text from existing text and copy what can't be inserted by @AmoabaKelvin in #39111
Dictate in the paired web client through the host by @AmoabaKelvin in #39126
Make dictation start reliably on a slow or sleeping desktop by @AmoabaKelvin in #39142
Resample desktop dictation to 16 kHz in an AudioWorklet with an anti-alias filter by @AmoabaKelvin in #39290
Send phone dictation audio every 150 ms with at most four chunks in flight by @AmoabaKelvin in #39341
Send desktop dictation audio straight to the speech process instead of through main by @AmoabaKelvin in #39346
Accurate unload setting description, settable while voice is off by @AmoabaKelvin in #39347
Number phone dictation's text so far so an older reply can't replace newer text by @AmoabaKelvin in #39396
Stop showing "Orca closed unexpectedly" after the speech engine crashes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39430
Report a slow Android speech service as busy, not unsupported by @AmoabaKelvin in #39476
Show the phone speech download size and drop a cancelled session's late text by @AmoabaKelvin in #39479
Keep iPhone dictation text revisions rising across sessions by @AmoabaKelvin in #39481
Treat a slow phone speech service as busy, not unsupported by @AmoabaKelvin in #39489
Finish Android dictation on a call, alarm or leaving the app by @AmoabaKelvin in #39492
Show the phone speech download size only for English by @AmoabaKelvin in #39496

Phone & paired devices

Queue chat sends while the desktop is away, keep drafts and edits across app kills and open screens from what the phone already has.

Queue chat sends while the desktop is offline by @AmoabaKelvin in #39423
Prevent duplicate queued sends after chat remount by @nwparker in #39809
Keep chat drafts, attachments and unsent messages across app kills by @AmoabaKelvin in #39342
Offer to restore unsaved file and Markdown edits after the app is killed by @AmoabaKelvin in #39710
Keep automation drafts across kills by @AmoabaKelvin in #39683
Keep screen data on the phone between launches by @AmoabaKelvin in #39719
Let pages read and write the device store by @AmoabaKelvin in #39147
Load the new-tab agent list with the session and share it with "Fix with" labels by @AmoabaKelvin in #39148
Ack terminal output after xterm parses it by @AmoabaKelvin in #39151
Show the model picker's models as soon as a chat opens by @AmoabaKelvin in #39152
Resume a phone terminal from what it already received by @AmoabaKelvin in #39156
Open a session with its last tab strip by @AmoabaKelvin in #39158
Open Review with the Changes data already loaded by @AmoabaKelvin in #39159
Return to LAN soon after joining Wi-Fi by @AmoabaKelvin in #39165
Show a thin refresh line under the header while cached data refreshes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39170
Render the cached page build first and talk only after the connection's verdict by @AmoabaKelvin in #39174
Reopen Files folders from memory by @AmoabaKelvin in #39175
Trim the page bundle back under its old budget by @AmoabaKelvin in #39182
Use mobile-only chat coalesce and reveal timings by @AmoabaKelvin in #39183
Skip the Suspense fallback on page boot by @AmoabaKelvin in #39184
Credit screencast frames to the phone by @AmoabaKelvin in #39189
Keep a parked chat reader steady while a reply streams by @AmoabaKelvin in #39209
Stop a hidden host list refetching on every change by @AmoabaKelvin in #39210
Phone chat: empty Cmd/Ctrl+Enter steers the first queued message, and holding Cmd/Ctrl shows what it will do by @brennanb2025 in #39215
Stop recomputing chat row keys and projection on every commit by @AmoabaKelvin in #39216
Bring attachments back with an unconfirmed chat send by @AmoabaKelvin in #39258
Keep an unconfirmed Tasks comment draft when someone else posts the same text by @AmoabaKelvin in #39259
Reread Source Control settings when a screen opens or the app returns by @AmoabaKelvin in #39266
Persist TanStack queries through the device store by @AmoabaKelvin in #39313
Merge the page bundle's small shared chunks into one by @AmoabaKelvin in #39343
Reuse the connection's status in the automation editor and chat capability check by @AmoabaKelvin in #39345
Retry the Changes branch compare after a failure or quick worktree switch by @AmoabaKelvin in #39350
Prefetch the next and previous file in Review by @AmoabaKelvin in #39355
Stop a session opened on a pane from faulting the page by @AmoabaKelvin in #39357
Give list screens' create button the accent fill in dark mode by @nwparker in #39359
Let the model pill take picks before the chat attaches by @AmoabaKelvin in #39379
Reopen agent session history from memory by @AmoabaKelvin in #39387
Stop false Wi-Fi arrivals and update the relay gate text by @AmoabaKelvin in #39391
Chat follow-ups for held replies, per-chat zoom and streamed math by @AmoabaKelvin in #39403
Make the device store's size accounting and page writes safe by @AmoabaKelvin in #39408
Tell a buried Android page it's hidden by @AmoabaKelvin in #39409
Open a session with one terminal list read and a loading body under the cached tabs by @AmoabaKelvin in #39412
Keep the page after the phone reclaims its WebView in the background by @AmoabaKelvin in #39415
Replay a page's streams only after its connection verdict by @AmoabaKelvin in #39419
Page large folders on the phone with Show 500 more and Search all by @AmoabaKelvin in #39438
Handle renames and the workspace list while the desktop is offline by @AmoabaKelvin in #39448
Show the workspace list from memory and refresh it on desktop changes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39453
Save drafts to the phone while the desktop is offline by @AmoabaKelvin in #39464
Keep the saved model list right across late reads and account switches by @AmoabaKelvin in #39470
Open Jump back in and notifications inside the host document by @AmoabaKelvin in #39474
Stop saving model lists from reads sent after a chat's first turn by @AmoabaKelvin in #39622
Tick only agent rows on the host list and keep repo looks across polls by @AmoabaKelvin in #39636
Re-probe an empty "+" agent list and derive the sheet state by @AmoabaKelvin in #39651
Re-subscribe Home and the follow-up preference after the client event stream ends by @AmoabaKelvin in #39655
Stop polling automations when the desktop reports changes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39664
Confirm a structured chat send by clientMessageId past the first journal page by @AmoabaKelvin in #39667
Show the last task list per filter while it refreshes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39668
Page updates when two shells fetch the same build, and stale cached generations by @AmoabaKelvin in #39677
Push worktree row changes; host list poll becomes a 10 s backstop by @AmoabaKelvin in #39688
Jump back in follow-ups from W8b by @AmoabaKelvin in #39702
Switch back to a terminal without rebuilding it by @AmoabaKelvin in #39705
Open the PR tab with its last state and refresh only what a write changed by @AmoabaKelvin in #39709
Stop loading unrelated RPC schemas in shared readers by @OrcaWin in #39727

Terminals, performance & updates

Bound GPU terminal memory, use the real Regular font weight on Windows and stop stray colour replies landing in the shell.

Bound WebGL atlas pages and release removed page textures by @nwparker in #39715
Use Regular weight by default on Windows by @nwparker in #39457
Never type a colour reply into the shell after the program that asked has exited by @nwparker in #37402
Derive state instead of syncing it in effects (panels) by @OrcaWin in #38801
Let default-matching cell backgrounds follow background opacity by @nwparker in #39372
Keep a terminal's last output on exit and stop charging dropped screencast frames by @AmoabaKelvin in #39384
Run ps without a shell on each Resource Manager poll by @OrcaWin in #39445
Stop painting busy TUI frames twice on non-Windows DOM terminals by @nwparker in #39462
Avoid reparsing xterm inline color styles by @nwparker in #39482
Preserve decorations on DOM block glyphs by @nwparker in #39615
Park and defer restored plain-shell tabs whose sessions no longer exist by @OrcaWin in #39725
Overlap independent fs probes; skip per-entry copies by @nwparker in #39729

SSH & remote servers

Make remote terminals and chats more responsive, recover managed SSH servers in more cases and lay groundwork for a new relay service.

Cut remote keystroke latency and per-frame copies by @nwparker in #39663
Desktop and CLI read compressed frames from remote hosts by @nwparker in #39659
Stream appends instead of whole items to desktop chats on remote hosts by @nwparker in #39657
Workspaces created on a paired host use the host's launch settings by @brennanb2025 in #38670
Send managed SSH host automations to its Orca server by @Jinwoo-H in #39160
Hide retained folder rows from process listings by @nwparker in #39332
Director edge cohort for the relay edge (dark by default) by @nwparker in #39362
Cloudflare Worker + Durable Objects relay by @nwparker in #39363
Keep old relay channels off the host's own SSH connection by @nwparker in #39435
Treat zsh's lowercase 'no such process' as a dead managed server by @nwparker in #39616
Wait for a slow ProxyCommand login before giving up on the managed tunnel's ssh -L forward by @nwparker in #39618
Finish the move to the managed server once the last relay-era terminal exits by @nwparker in #39621
Slow remote polls while the Orca window is visible but unfocused by @nwparker in #39650
Coalesce output longer for visible-but-unfocused remote terminal panes by @nwparker in #39660
Control liveness on any frame, signed drain op, small-volume alerts by @nwparker in #39706
Edge export skip on outage, cohort-exit drain sweep, region-scoped account allow by @nwparker in #39707
Opt-in adaptive ACK pacing for alternate-screen streams on slow remote links by @nwparker in #39735
Single-use admin tokens (jti), signing key rotation, auth-refresh metrics by @nwparker in #39738
Retry failed edge fences, cap edge pushes under row lock, jti on edge admin tokens by @nwparker in #39740
Stop recovery snapshots from piling up on slow links; let opt-in pacing engage under floods by @nwparker in #39765
Keep valid desktops through JWKS outages, deep object probe, cohort-scaled alerts by @nwparker in #39772
Runtime relay edge control (kill/down/permille), no device resurrection on skipped export, faster evacuation by @nwparker in #39773

Pairing, security & trust

Make pairing codes single-use, move remote connections to newer encryption and ask before trusting a repo for agents.

Let clients exchange a pairing code for their own token by @nwparker in #38937
Exchange the scanned pairing code for a token kept on the phone by @nwparker in #38938
A browser's saved device key retires the pairing link it came from by @nwparker in #38947
Add server and orca environment add exchange the link for their own token by @nwparker in #38948
Show which devices still sign in with their original pairing code by @nwparker in #38949
Use E2EE v2 for desktop and CLI connections to remote runtimes by @nwparker in #39218
Use E2EE v2 for the pairing token on plain-http pages by @nwparker in #39220
Show which paired devices still sign in with older encryption by @nwparker in #39222
Ask once per repo before pre-trusting agent folders by @nwparker in #38946
Refuse public source addresses on orca serve unless allowed by @nwparker in #39207
Keep signed-in devices when the first-seen save fails; report revoked devices on downgraded latched hosts by @nwparker in #39337
Remember approved setup scripts; let automations re-approve skipped setup by @nwparker in #39354
Remember up to 20 approved setup scripts per repo by @nwparker in #39436

Source control & editor

Browse the whole repo in a Git Graph tab, use Source Control in folder workspaces and switch branches in place.

Git Graph tab: all branches, commit details and file changes by @brennanb2025 in #6746
Show Source Control for folder workspaces by @brennanb2025 in #38831
Show each folder Source Control repo as its own card by @brennanb2025 in #39277
Switch or create a branch in place from the Source Control header by @brennanb2025 in #38836
Say when an image is too large to copy instead of showing "Copied as PNG" by @brennanb2025 in #39260
Keep one tint on wholly new and deleted files by @nwparker in #39358
Open HTML previews in the editor's tab group by @AmethystLiang in #39367
Keep markdown syntax colors under plugin themes by @nwparker in #39389
Confirm a lost Tasks comment by author on GitLab and GitHub REST reads by @AmoabaKelvin in #39422
Select the active worktree's git status and expanded dirs by @OrcaWin in #39442
Cache branch-compare merge-base and ahead/behind by commit pair by @nwparker in #39699
Use git's untracked cache and reuse unchanged line stats in status reads by @nwparker in #39721
Reuse the branch-compare changed-files list while its inputs are unchanged by @nwparker in #39747

Workspaces, sidebar & tabs

Use Cmd/Ctrl+K for search on new profiles, place projects between groups and find workspace actions in a tidier menu.

Use Cmd+K for search on new Mac profiles by @AmethystLiang in #38884
Use Ctrl+K for search on Windows and Linux by @AmethystLiang in #39767
Allow interleaving projects and groups in the sidebar by @AmethystLiang in #39768
Reorganize the worktree context menu by @AmethystLiang in #39739
Launch desktop runs from main, not the renderer window by @Jinwoo-H in #39247
Show the machine on folder workspace cards by @Jinwoo-H in #39280
Revert the onboarding Antigravity installer (#39172) by @nwparker in #39282
Fit file and browser tabs to their content by @AmethystLiang in #39328
A run quit with Ctrl+C is recorded as interrupted, not completed by @Jinwoo-H in #39397
Add WeChat community group QR codes by @AmethystLiang in #39411
Hide merge badges on workspace cards by @AmethystLiang in #39638
Re-rank only the worktrees a sort save moved by @OrcaWin in #39723
Prevent hover previews from blocking context menus by @AmethystLiang in #39757
Focus session search when switching sidebar tabs by @AmethystLiang in #39763
Keep project list closed when Add project dialog lazy-loads by @nwparker in #39764
Align sidebar activity badge with visible agents by @AmethystLiang in #39783

Settings & appearance

Import a custom app icon, read settings in titled cards and get matching toast buttons.

Import a custom app icon from Appearance settings by @nwparker in #39443
Show each settings group as a titled card by @brennanb2025 in #39253
Themed menus, legible segmented controls, scrolling config import preview by @nwparker in #39361
Match toast action buttons to Orca's Button by @brennanb2025 in #39935

Plugins, themes & CLI

Let themes play a looping background video and ship fonts, and manage folder workspaces and pairing from the CLI.

Play a looping video behind app themes by @nwparker in #39450
Let plugins ship web fonts for the terminal, editor and interface by @nwparker in #39416
Theme tokens for chat text styling and a readable chat selection by @nwparker in #39432
Surface reserved-identity install errors for local forks by @bbingz in #12606
Don't count time asleep as worker idle time by @petersindex in #28299
Pair clients with a running Orca via orca pair by @sunfmin in #36469
Forward sidebar and zoom shortcuts from plugin frames by @agustin2606 in #37939
Isolate development watcher retries by root by @be0hhh in #38289
Resolve workspace context for remote active workspaces by @Pr1p in #38671
Let plugin keybindings follow the terminal shortcut policy by @nwparker in #39348
Stop terminal inventories for agent status events nobody hears by @nwparker in #39383
Deny when a fail-closed hook returns a malformed denial by @nwparker in #39393
Stop a late replacing command from repeating the built-in action by @nwparker in #39407
Keep a workspace-scoped panel edit made just before a workspace switch by @nwparker in #39413
Match folder workspaces by path: and name:, keep same-id ps rows apart by @Jinwoo-H in #39637
Set and rm folder workspaces through the folder workspace RPCs by @Jinwoo-H in #39670

Tests, CI & maintenance

Trim low-value tests, reorganize code by owner, prepare the UI for the React Compiler and keep CI green.

Read host capabilities from one status read per connection by @AmoabaKelvin in #39157
Organize terminal pane lifecycle and layout owners by @nwparker in #39242
Import resolveQueuedInitialCwd from its new home by @brennanb2025 in #39269
Organize remaining pane features by owner by @nwparker in #39270
Fix main after folder Source Control and pane lifecycle merges by @brennanb2025 in #39273
Run the desktop dictation controller on a shared session state machine by @AmoabaKelvin in #39284
Update README downloads badge by @buf0-bot[bot] in #39291
Organize runtime clients and feature state owners by @nwparker in #39292
Stop opening an unused speaker path while dictating by @AmoabaKelvin in #39293
Declare pane lifecycle refs as top-level hook calls by @OrcaWin in #39315
Remove 439 low-value browser and runtime tests by @OrcaWin in #39318
Organize host and terminal owners and remove forwarding shells by @nwparker in #39320
Remove 76 low-value fork and UI tests by @OrcaWin in #39321
Stop reading and writing refs during pane render by @OrcaWin in #39323
Gate React Compiler compatibility with a ratchet by @OrcaWin in #39324
Replace getState-in-render live-agent memos with epoch-keyed selectors by @OrcaWin in #39329
Remove 212 low-value mobile shell and routing tests by @OrcaWin in #39334
Derive drag label and active simulator tab reactively instead of getState in render by @OrcaWin in #39335
Spell out logical assignments React Compiler can't lower yet by @OrcaWin in #39339
Remove 181 low-value tests and 27 entire suites by @OrcaWin in #39351
Make render-path translation reactive to the UI language (hook, codemod, ratchet; native-chat) by @OrcaWin in #39353
Reactive translate in settings (repository, browser, terminal, runtime environments, ssh) by @OrcaWin in #39356
Remove 364 low-value tests and 45 entire suites by @OrcaWin in #39365
Reactive translate in settings (appearance, accounts, agents, source control, mobile, shortcuts, editor, voice) by @OrcaWin in #39366
Reactive translate in settings (remaining panes) by @OrcaWin in #39371
Reactive translate in sidebar (workspace cards, worktree list) by @OrcaWin in #39375
Remove 235 low-value tests and 14 entire suites by @OrcaWin in #39376
Reactive translate in sidebar (remaining) by @OrcaWin in #39382
Reactive translate in right sidebar (source control, hosted review) by @OrcaWin in #39385
Reactive translate in right sidebar (remaining panels) by @OrcaWin in #39388
Reactive translate in editor by @OrcaWin in #39394
Reactive translate in browser pane and feature wall by @OrcaWin in #39399
Reactive translate in plugins and skills by @OrcaWin in #39400
Reactive translate in status bar by @OrcaWin in #39401
Remove 186 low-value tests and 11 entire suites by @OrcaWin in #39404
Reactive translate in task page and automations by @OrcaWin in #39406
Make memo invalidators and layout flushes compiler-safe by @OrcaWin in #39414
Import defining owners and extract ACP startup by @nwparker in #39417
Reactive translate in terminal pane, tab bar and work-item dialogs by @OrcaWin in #39418
Reactive translate in pull request page, agent, onboarding, stats, new workspace and feature tips by @OrcaWin in #39421
Reactive translate in smaller component areas (activity through maintenance) by @OrcaWin in #39424
Reactive translate in smaller component areas (managed runtime through WSL move) by @OrcaWin in #39425
Split the device registry and the Monaco theme hook so PR lint passes again by @AmoabaKelvin in #39426
Reactive translate in the remaining renderer files (top-level components, app shell, entry points, hooks, lib) by @OrcaWin in #39427
Remove 321 low-value tests and 22 entire suites by @OrcaWin in #39429
Fail compiler-compat baseline shrinks only in touched files by @OrcaWin in #39440
Remove 221 low-value cloud, mobile and journal tests by @OrcaWin in #39449
Colocate settings and catalog state owners by @nwparker in #39451
Remove 18 low-value native-chat session tests by @OrcaWin in #39459
Remove 131 low-value terminal, session and transport tests by @OrcaWin in #39460
Remove 32 low-value shared helper tests by @OrcaWin in #39475
Tidy the rail wake hook and add tests by @nwparker in #39477
Theme background video ships in 1.4.254 by @nwparker in #39478
Remove 295 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39480
Remove 158 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39483
Remove 242 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39487
Remove 65 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39491
Remove 295 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39494
Remove 665 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39498
Remove 264 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39500
Remove 263 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39504
Remove 193 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39506
Remove 244 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39507
Place renderer store state with defining feature owners by @nwparker in #39508
Remove 124 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39509
Group native chat media, links and appearance owners by @nwparker in #39511
Remove 125 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39513
Remove 137 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39522
Remove 328 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39525
Organize native chat session and delivery owners by @nwparker in #39526
Remove 279 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39527
Remove 283 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39533
Organize native chat composer and conversation owners by @nwparker in #39534
Remove 414 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39539
Remove 571 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39546
Remove 660 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39547
Remove 676 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39550
Remove 587 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39553
Remove 835 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39558
Remove 329 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39560
Update README downloads badge by @buf0-bot[bot] in #39561
Remove 265 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39565
Remove 395 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39568
Remove 354 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39570
Organize renderer runtime by feature ownership by @nwparker in #39571
Remove 618 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39576
Remove 438 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39580
Remove rail wake comments by @nwparker in #39585
Explain the local Vitest transform cache by @OrcaWin in #39586
Remove 255 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39587
Remove 313 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39592
Sync render-path translate baseline after settings group cards by @OrcaWin in #39595
Remove 585 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39600
Remove 763 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39604
Remove 581 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39608
Remove 468 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39614
Shorten the Vitest cache note to one line by @OrcaWin in #39623
Organize backend runtime by defining owner by @nwparker in #39625
Replace the last two bare void reads React Compiler would drop by @OrcaWin in #39626
Key external-store reads on the subscription version they already take by @OrcaWin in #39628
Key render reads on the version hooks they already call by @OrcaWin in #39629
Flag discarded subscriptions and store snapshots React Compiler would cache by @OrcaWin in #39630
Remove 282 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39632
Remove 158 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39639
Key option support and terminal reads on the snapshots they already take by @OrcaWin in #39641
Remove 140 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39644
Pass new inputs instead of mutating them in five renderer tests by @OrcaWin in #39648
Read render-path translations from useTranslate in the settings over-budget files by @OrcaWin in #39654
Pass useTranslate's t to sidebar section headers and the setup prompt by @OrcaWin in #39656
Remove 559 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39661
Key tool run and background task words on useTranslate's t by @OrcaWin in #39662
Key the naming failure output reader on the failure it reads by @OrcaWin in #39665
Stop the dispatcher importing every RPC method by default by @OrcaWin in #39669
Give the structured-worker retry suite a load-proof readiness budget by @OrcaWin in #39671
Remove 292 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39673
Read render-path translations from useTranslate in the source-control over-budget files by @OrcaWin in #39674
Render the gutter menu in its owner test and read useTranslate there by @OrcaWin in #39675
Read the notebook error fallback and copy button title from useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39678
Cut ~70s of CI test time from agent-hooks helper and CLI restart-handoff suites by @OrcaWin in #39679
Alias relay-contract subpaths to source in local wrangler config by @nwparker in #39680
Drop the default-RPC-manifest guard where no default remains by @OrcaWin in #39684
Fake-clock the agent-session start backoff; drop the CLI owner-choice work-count suite by @OrcaWin in #39685
Follow the editor's Preview button in the paired HTML preview spec by @OrcaWin in #39686
Cut ~20s of CI test time from codex app-server, --no-daemon shell and grid-serialize suites by @OrcaWin in #39687
Remove 182 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39689
Run the distro holder script on a 100ms poll and wait for its own signals by @OrcaWin in #39690
Pass useTranslate's t into the plugin manager's list entries by @OrcaWin in #39693
Read render-path translations from useTranslate in the review animated visuals by @OrcaWin in #39696
Split the browser and feature-wall over-budget files and read useTranslate there by @OrcaWin in #39698
Remove 259 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39701
Finish the status bar's render-path translations by @OrcaWin in #39708
Stop re-evaluating connect-pane-pty per test in pty-connection suites by @OrcaWin in #39711
Finish IssueDialog and the run history count label on useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39717
Remove 297 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39720
Finish EditorFileTab and the checks tab actions on useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39726
Render the usage charts in their test and read useTranslate there by @OrcaWin in #39737
Remove 357 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39743
Resolve the diff comment popover's default labels from useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39744
Organize file operations, search and secure storage owners by @nwparker in #39746
Drop the workspace cleanup facet rows' work-count assertions by @OrcaWin in #39748
Mount the settings nav language test inside TranslationScopeProvider by @OrcaWin in #39754
Finish the review notes send menu and resume groups on useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39755
Update README downloads badge by @buf0-bot[bot] in #39760
Read AgentLaunchSetupPanel's copy from useTranslate by @OrcaWin in #39761
Remove 244 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39781

New Contributors

@sunfmin made their first contribution in #36469
@be0hhh made their first contribution in #38289
@Jackylee1992 made their first contribution in #38807

Full Changelog: v1.4.253...v1.4.254

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