Orca v1.4.242 opens Claude subagents from the sidebar, and Codex Ask mode asks before it edits

Click a Claude subagent in Orca's sidebar or dashboard, and its transcript opens in the same terminal. Click the parent to go back. Claude sessions already running need a fresh launch.

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Click a Claude subagent in Orca’s sidebar to open its transcript

It opens in the same terminal. Click the parent to go back, and an eye marks the one you’re viewing.

Default

on, with Claude status hooks

Shortcut

Orca adds one key to Claude’s keybindings.json

Running sessions

need a fresh launch

A Codex chat in Ask mode could edit your files without asking. Now it runs read-only and asks before each edit. Chats on a paired server wait until that server updates.

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Codex chats in Ask mode now ask before they edit your workspace

Ask runs read-only until you allow the edit. Chats on a paired server keep the old behavior until that server updates.

Resume a Claude session and it keeps its effort level and launch flags. A resumed Codex thread keeps the permission you last gave it, instead of falling back to Orca's launch flag.

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Resumed agents keep the settings you gave them

Claude

resumes at its own effort level

Background launches

keep their launch flags

Codex

resumes with the permission it was last given

Restart Orca, and a paired server's tabs come back, while tabs you closed stay closed. WSL hosts stop asking to pair again, and a failed SSH connect shows what SSH said.

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Paired servers keep your tabs across restarts

Closed tabs

stay closed after a restart

WSL

hosts stop re-pairing after each restart

SSH

a failed Connect shows what SSH said

Orca now checks idle shells less often, so terminals burn far less CPU while you wait. The terminal host shrinks once it next restarts, and WSL connects through bash instead of Node.

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Terminals use far less idle CPU

Terminal host

uses less memory once it next restarts

WSL

connects through bash instead of Node, with far less memory

Resource panel

matches Activity Monitor on macOS

Windows launchers now run from folders with spaces, Korean input stops sending word jumps twice, and automations survive daylight saving. If you run Claude subagents, I'd update today: one click opens each one.

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Three fixes you may have hit

Windows

launchers run from folders with spaces

Korean input

word jumps send once while composing

Automations

no skipped dates around daylight saving

Run Claude subagents? Update today.

Orca v1.4.242 release notes on GitHub