v0.14.9: instant terminals, session cleanup, and Stay Awake in the menu bar

Stable v0.14.9 is out. New terminals show their prompt right away, finished sessions can be deleted by hand or cleared out on a schedule, the macOS menu bar shows when Orchestrator is keeping your Mac awake, and long chats cost less CPU and memory.

New terminals start right away

A new terminal in a session now starts its shell as soon as the tab is created, instead of waiting for the tab to attach, so the prompt appears sooner. Terminals now live only in a session's tab strip: the standalone Terminals page is gone, and ⌘T outside a session does nothing. #7587

Delete finished sessions, or clear them out automatically

Archived session cards now have a trash button. It asks before deleting, cleans up a worktree that's still on disk first, and keeps the session if the cleanup is refused, showing why in the dialog. To clear old sessions automatically, choose 7, 30 or 90 days under Settings › Sessions › Delete archived sessions; the default is Never. From the CLI, ao session delete [--cleanup] does the same, and ao session cleanup no longer revisits sessions it already cleaned. A skipped workspace now says why, for example that a worktree is locked by git and how to unlock it. #7440

See when Orchestrator is keeping your Mac awake

While Stay Awake is on, the Orchestrator icon in the macOS menu bar shows the same coffee symbol as the sidebar, next to its attention counts. The separate idle and closed-lid wake controls in the mobile settings are now one Keep this Mac awake switch that also covers a closed lid, and it no longer depends on mobile access being on. #7130

Lighter on long chats

Sessions with large saved histories and long streaming replies now use less CPU and daemon memory, and typing stays responsive. A very large command output shows its last part with a short note instead of laying out the whole log, which could freeze the window. The model menu opens without lag even for agents with hundreds of models, such as OpenCode. #7335 #7526

Improvements

Chat

• The model picker shows a Claude model as unavailable when your installed Claude Code is too old to run it, with the version it needs and a reminder to run claude update, instead of letting the first turn fail with an API error. #7136
• Queued Browser annotations can be steered into the running turn or cancelled, like any other queued message. #7458
• While a turn runs, its steps draw in the conversation again instead of in a small scroll box, and you keep your place when the turn finishes. #7528
• Answered question cards show only the question and the answer you picked. #7535
• Select text in a chat and press ⌘L (Ctrl+L on Windows and Linux) to add it to your message. The selection toolbar stays above the first selected line while you scroll. #7489
• Clicking the hover card on a session link opens that session. #7508
• /btw is now the only side-chat command. Typing /side still suggests it, and choosing it lets you write your question before anything is sent. #7501
• Confirming a Japanese or other IME candidate with Enter no longer sends the message. To send with ⌘Enter (Ctrl+Enter) and use Enter for a new line, change Settings › General › Sessions › Chat send key. #6242
• A DeepSeek chat with no API key explains what's missing and offers Set up DeepSeek. #7303

Desktop

• The desktop app is now called Orchestrator everywhere you see its name, matching mobile. #7438
• A cleaner Diagnostics panel, with the memory light next to the Orchestrator button. #7576
• Every page shares one top bar, with notifications on every page. #7397
• On macOS, ⌘Backspace in a terminal deletes to the start of the line. #5202
• The branch menu in Files offers search once it lists two branches, and shows a cut-off branch name in full on hover. #7497
• Text in the inspector's Summary and Reviews, rendered Markdown in Files, and error messages can now be selected and copied. #7575
• A failed update check, download or install shows one short sentence in your language instead of the raw updater error. #7427
• Settings describes what the linked ao command does instead of showing a version string. #7099
• Installed builds can no longer reload the app window or open DevTools on it; browser pages still can. #7558

Agents and CLI

• OpenCode 2 now installs beside OpenCode 1 with every install method, so OpenCode 1 sessions keep working. #7066
• ao project set-config --pre-remove "<command>" sets a project's Cleanup scripts. #7531

Cloud

These need Cloud turned on under Settings › Advanced › Developer Mode.

• Cloud sessions match local ones in the desktop app, and Cloud chat streams smoothly instead of updating once a second. #7543
• New project asks first whether agents should work on this computer or in Cloud, then lists the sources for that choice. #7554
• Cloud PDF artifacts preview like local ones, in the viewer and on their cards. #7466
• Delete a cloud artifact from a session's artifact cards, and preview .jsonl, .ini, .conf, .diff and .patch cloud files. #7465

Bug fixes

Chat

• The expired-login banner clears as soon as you sign in again, instead of only after a later turn finishes. #7544
• Codex questions that ask for a choice or free text can be answered in chat and stay in the history. #7186
• Chat no longer jumps up and down while the sidebar or inspector opens or closes. #7586
• Selection toolbars stay available while content refreshes in the background, and Escape closes them without interrupting the agent. #7327
• Retrying a lost side-chat request no longer creates a duplicate side chat. #7560

Desktop

• Fixed several recovery paths that kept retrying a missing workspace, failed update checks or link previews, or left you without a next step. #7553
• Activity no longer shows Conflict or Changes Requested for a pull request that was closed or merged. #7539
• The inspector no longer shows a pull request twice after its repository was renamed. #7563
• A failed manual review shows its reason in Review controls, even with Auto review off. #7540
• The Browser page keeps its width while the inspector slides open or closed. #7561
• The theme you pick stays applied when the pointer passes over another theme as the picker closes. #7584
• On macOS, the open sidebar lines up with the center panel's edge again. #7552
• Tooltips wrap naturally instead of leaving empty space. #7612

Agents and CLI

• Agents, reviewers and terminals run Orchestrator's own ao even when a shell startup file puts another one first on PATH. #7429
• Cline sessions resume with their saved conversation instead of starting over. #2904
• ao project set-config no longer drops a project's effort or Cleanup scripts when you change other fields. #7318

Mobile

• On Android, signing in to Orchestrator Cloud no longer leaves an Unmatched Route screen on top of the app. #7542

Learn more

Everything on this page is in stable v0.14.9, released on November 3, which also brings the preview items from the October 28–31 update to stable.

• Read the documentation
• Download stable v0.14.9
• View detailed releases on GitHub