Releases · Recusive/Orbit-Release

Multi-engine support. Orbit now ships a second AI engine with support for 200+ models across 20+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Groq, Mistral, xAI, Cohere, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and more. Switch engines in Settings → Engine. Web search, semantic code search, custom skills, session sharing, subagent spawning, and a built-in permission system are available on the new engine. Both engines run as managed sidecar processes with automatic port selection and health checks.
Skills Marketplace. Browse and install community-built skills directly inside Orbit. Search, filter, scope skills to a project or globally, and see what's already installed.
Subagents. The agent can spawn parallel sub-tasks that run independently and report back. Each task appears inline with its status and collapsible output.
Settings redesign. Settings moved from a modal to a full inline page with grouped navigation — Engine, General, Appearance, Agent, Providers, Subagents, Commands, Shortcuts, Browser, Editor, Git, Notifications, and Tabs.
Slash commands. Commands are syntax-highlighted inline as you type. The command menu filters as you type, replacing the previous popover.
Image attachments. Attach images to messages for vision-capable models. Automatically disabled with a tooltip when the active model doesn't support vision.
Git diff stats. The top bar shows a live count of lines added and removed on the current branch. Click to jump to source control.
Branch picker. Always shows the full view with search, branch list, and inline creation — no more context-dependent switching between compact and full modes.
Word-by-word streaming. Responses stream incrementally instead of arriving in blocks. Remaining tokens drain quickly on completion.
/compact status. Compacting context now shows a live indicator with progress and an updated token count on completion.
Thinking persistence. Thinking blocks persist across loads with accurate durations, correctly interleaved with tool calls.
Session restore. Switching conversations is faster. Sessions pre-warm in the background with a skeleton loading state.
Instant titles. Conversation titles generate immediately on first message. Automatic cleanup of stray quotes, prefixes, and truncation artifacts.
App icon picker. Choose your Dock icon from Settings → Appearance. Four styles with light/dark variants. Follows system theme, no restart required.
File previews. Image files preview inline. SVGs render by default with a toggle to view source.
Tool card redesign. Plain-language headers ("Reading", "Edited", "Ran", "Searching"), collapsible code search results, and paginated question prompts with keyboard navigation.
Changelog. Full release history available in Settings → Changelog. Timeline layout with version badges. The update toast links directly to the changelog without dismissing itself, and a "What's new" link appears in the sidebar after dismissal.
Visual refresh. Unified color system across light and dark themes. Frosted glass notifications. Blur-reveal transitions in the sidebar and top bar.

Bug Fixes

Fixed ignored files (build artifacts, IDE metadata) appearing in source control as untracked or modified
Saving a provider API key now immediately updates connected status
Fixed browser panel dialog coordination with other overlays
Fixed content security policy blocking the new engine in production builds

Internal

Migrated chat input to Lexical editor framework
Upstream engine sync to v1.2.26
Published @orbit.build/sdk and @orbit.build/plugin to npm
Strict typing cleanup — removed lint suppressions, replaced #[allow] with #[expect], eliminated unsafe casts

Upcoming

Orbit CLI. Terminal-native AI coding agent. 200+ models across 20+ providers, 30+ built-in tools, MCP support, custom skills, and a plugin system. Ships as a single binary. Sessions persist in SQLite with branching, export, and file revert. Granular permission system for tool approval. Run orbit serve to start a headless API server that any frontend can connect to.
Orbit Terminal. A native macOS terminal application purpose-built for AI coding. Written in Zig, rendering directly to Metal. Ships as a dedicated app wrapping the same agent as the CLI, with native sidebars for sessions, file trees, and syntax-highlighted diffs. Connects to the Orbit agent over the same HTTP + SSE protocol as the Editor.