Orrery v0.2.0

Linux builds of Orrery — every repo in orbit. This is a big step up from v0.1.0: a second AI backend, a fleet of new workflow tools, desktop notifications, and a much smarter sidebar.

✨ Highlights

Local AI, now with a bundled engine

• llama.cpp inference backend alongside Ollama. Pick your engine in Settings → AI. (#21)
  • Runs a local llama-server sidecar — no Ollama install required.
  • A llama-server engine is bundled in these release builds, so the backend works out of the box; download a model from Settings and go.
  • Spun up lazily and shut down cleanly with the app (no orphaned process).
  • Powers summaries, commit messages, changelogs, the daily briefing, and the resume catch-up. (Semantic search still uses Ollama embeddings.)

Get more done across your fleet

• Fleet bulk actions — multi-select repos and run batch git ops (fetch, pull, stash, checkout default, or a constrained custom command) with live per-repo progress and cancel. (#63)
• Agent & terminal session dashboard — see every agent/terminal you've launched, with terminate / reopen / open-in-IDE / open-folder. (#68)
• PR / CI action panel in the repo drawer — per-PR checks, reviews, mergeability, and quick-merge (squash/rebase/merge, respecting what the repo allows). (#67)
• Quick-create — spin up a new project or clone anything straight from the header. (#71)
• Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" — jot notes per repo and get an AI catch-up of what changed since you last looked. (#69)
• Cross-repo code search in the command palette, backed by ripgrep. (#65)
• Worktree manager — create, open, and remove git worktrees. (#62)
• Branch janitor (Cleanup) — find and prune merged/gone branches. (#64)
• Project grouping / tags and saved filter views for Mission Control. (#66)
• Dev Tools page — a small utility belt for common dev chores. (#72)

Stay in the loop

• Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance for new PRs, review requests, and CI failures — Orrery now closes to the tray and keeps watching in the background. (#70)

A smarter shell

• Contextual sidebar with count badges, a collapsible rail, and per-view slots for Inbox & Feed, including a "new since last visit" glance. (#81, #82)
• Faster Feed — parallel sources with an instant stale-while-revalidate render. (#84)

🐞 Fixes & hardening

• Fixed VirtualList row overlap when the item set changes. (#83)
• Hardened cross-repo code search against ripgrep flag smuggling. (#77)
• Stopped tracking the .cate/ editor workspace. (#89)
• Dependency refresh (dirs, which, toml majors) and pnpm pinned to 10.x.

📦 Install

Grab the artifact for your distro below:

• AppImage — chmod +x Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.AppImage && ./Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.AppImage
• .deb — sudo apt install ./Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.deb
• .rpm — sudo dnf install ./Orrery-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

The AppImage is larger this release (~93 MB) because it now ships the bundled llama-server engine.

See the documentation for setup and the feature tour.

What's Changed

• Document the PR-only workflow by @Hankanman in #58
• Bump dirs, which, toml to latest majors by @Hankanman in #59
• Bump pnpm 10 → 11 by @Hankanman in #60
• Pin pnpm 10.33 (revert pnpm 11) by @Hankanman in #61
• Dev Tools page (utility belt) by @Hankanman in #73
• Complete git worktree manager by @Hankanman in #74
• Saved filter views (Mission Control) by @Hankanman in #75
• Cross-repo code search in the command palette by @Hankanman in #76
• Harden code search against ripgrep flag smuggling by @Hankanman in #77
• Revert direct-pushed tags commit (re-land via PR) by @Hankanman in #78
• Project grouping / tags (re-landed via PR) by @Hankanman in #79
• Branch janitor (Cleanup view) by @Hankanman in #80
• Leverage the sidebar: contextual slots, count badges, collapsible rail by @Hankanman in #81
• Contextual sidebar slots for Inbox & Feed + "new since last visit" by @Hankanman in #82
• Fix VirtualList row overlap when filtering the Feed by @Hankanman in #83
• Speed up the feed: parallel sources + instant stale render by @Hankanman in #84
• PR/CI action panel + quick-merge (#67) by @Hankanman in #85
• Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance (#70) by @Hankanman in #86
• Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" (#69) by @Hankanman in #87
• Quick-create: new project / clone-anything (#71) by @Hankanman in #88
• Untrack .cate/ editor workspace by @Hankanman in #89
• Agent/terminal session dashboard (#68) by @Hankanman in #90
• Fleet bulk actions: multi-select + batch ops (#63) by @Hankanman in #91
• Extract an AiBackend seam (#21, groundwork) by @Hankanman in #92
• llama.cpp backend: sidecar + model download (#21) — DO NOT MERGE until verified on-device by @Hankanman in #93
• Ship llama-server in release bundles via CI fetch (#21) by @Hankanman in #94
• Release v0.2.0 by @Hankanman in #95

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Orrery v0.1.0

Orrery puts every git repo in your dev directories into orbit — a dark, dense "mission control" grid with live git status, one-click launch into your IDE or a terminal coding agent, multi-host enrichment, and on-device AI summaries.

This is the first release — early development, Linux-only, and built from source at this tag. Expect rough edges; please file issues.

📖 Documentation & feature tour →

What's in this build

• Mission Control — a virtualized grid of all your repos with filters for visibility (public/private/all), dirty/ahead/starred/stale, workspace root, and language; an activity graph; and a ⌘K command palette.
• One-click launchers — open in your IDE or drop a terminal agent into any repo, chosen from preset chips with real brand logos (VS Code, Cursor, Zed, the JetBrains family, … × Kitty/Alacritty/Ghostty/… × Claude Code/Aider/Codex/…).
• Repo drawer — branches, recent commits, a staged-diff view with AI commit messages and changelogs, and the README.
• Inbox / Feed / Explore — what needs you (PRs, reviews, issues, notifications), a release/social activity feed, and a browser for your starred repos with one-click clone.
• Local AI — repo summaries, commit messages, a daily briefing, and semantic search, all on-device via Ollama. Entirely optional — turn it off and every AI affordance disappears from the UI.
• Native desktop integration — borrows the system theme, accent colour, and window decorations; full-colour language logos; offline-first SQLite cache that paints instantly on launch.

Install (Linux)

Pick one of the bundles below.

AppImage (portable, any distro):

chmod +x Orrery_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage
./Orrery_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage

Debian / Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./Orrery_0.1.0_amd64.deb

Fedora / RHEL:

sudo dnf install ./Orrery-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Arch (AUR): orrery-git builds the latest from source —

yay -S orrery-git   # or your preferred AUR helper

From source: see the getting-started guide.

First run

Open Settings → Workspace roots and point Orrery at the directories where you keep your projects (defaults to ~/dev), then Save & rescan. Optionally Connect GitHub to enrich private repos, and set up local AI via Ollama.

Notes

• WebKitGTK can be juddery on NVIDIA; Orrery ships a flat, GPU-light UI and disables the DMABUF renderer by default. See rendering performance.
• These bundles are unsigned.