Orbit 0.4.0

0.4.0

🚀 Orbit Provider — sign in, pick a model, start coding

Orbit Provider is now the first-class way to use Orbit without bringing your own API keys. Sign in with GitHub, and Orbit loads the models your account has access to — no key to paste, no extra setup.

• GitHub sign-in. Settings → Providers opens with a dedicated Orbit Provider section at the top. Click Sign in with GitHub, finish in your browser, and you're back in the editor. Your session stays on your machine.
• Live model list. After sign-in, Orbit pulls your available models automatically. Hit Refresh models any time to get the latest catalog.
• Profile footer. When signed in, the chat sidebar footer shows your GitHub avatar, plan, and remaining credits — matching what you see in Settings.

💳 Billing & usage

• Wallet balance in the editor. See your remaining credits in Settings → Account and in the chat profile footer. A low-balance warning appears before you run out mid-session.
• Plan-aware UI. Free, Pro, and other plan labels are shown consistently across settings and the sidebar.
• Billing on the web. Billing & usage opens your account page for top-ups, invoices, and subscription management.

🎛️ Settings & providers

• Orbit Provider featured at the top. The Providers tab separates Orbit Provider from Bring your own provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, ChatGPT, SuperGrok, etc.) and Local (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio).
• Models tab ordering. Orbit Provider models appear at the top of the Models list when you are signed in.

🛠️ Reliability

• Balance stays in sync. Refreshing your wallet balance in Settings updates the sidebar footer too — one source of truth, no stale numbers.
• Windows SuperGrok sign-in. If browser sign-in doesn't complete on Windows, Orbit offers a device-code option so you can still connect your subscription.
• Safer sign-out. Signing out of Orbit Provider clears your session and revokes access cleanly.

macOS install

• Recommended (no Gatekeeper warning):

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

• Or download the .dmg from the release, drag Orbit to Applications, then run once:

  xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

  (Orbit isn't notarized by Apple yet, so a browser-downloaded .dmg shows a one-time "unverified developer" prompt; the command above clears it.)

Orbit 0.3.0

0.3.0

⚡ Grok through your xAI subscription

Sign in to xAI with your SuperGrok or eligible X Premium subscription and use Composer 2.5 and Grok 4.5 directly in Orbit — no xAI API key required.

• OAuth sign-in. Add the xAI – SuperGrok Subscription provider in Settings → Providers (or during onboarding) and authenticate in your browser. Orbit stores and refreshes the tokens for you.
• Subscription models. Composer 2.5 and Grok 4.5 are available straight from the subscription. If your plan doesn't include Grok API access, Orbit says so and lets you connect an xAI API key instead — no dead ends.
• Usage aware. Your weekly and monthly subscription usage is surfaced so you can keep an eye on limits.

🎛️ Primary bar & title bar refinements

Cleaner, more focused workbench chrome that matches modern editor conventions.

• Redesigned "Additional Views" menu. The primary activity-bar overflow (the chevron) is now a premium, attached dropdown. Each view shows its icon, name, keyboard shortcut, and a pin toggle — pinned views stay marked, unpinned ones reveal their pin on hover. It's fully keyboard-navigable, sensibly ordered, and lists only real navigators (empty/contextual containers like References no longer clutter it).
• Testing moved to the bottom panel. The Testing view now lives in the bottom panel (bottom-right) instead of the primary sidebar, keeping the activity bar focused on core navigation.
• Simpler title bar. Removed the account icon and the duplicate built-in settings gear from the title bar — Orbit's own settings gear is now the single settings entry point.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash that could leave the Additional Views menu empty or broken (an invalid icon class threw while the menu was being built).

macOS install

• Recommended (no Gatekeeper warning):

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

• Or download the .dmg from the release, drag Orbit to Applications, then run once:

  xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

  (Orbit isn't notarized by Apple yet, so a browser-downloaded .dmg shows a one-time "unverified developer" prompt; the command above clears it.)

Orbit 0.2.2

Orbit 0.2.2 — see update/latest.json for auto-update manifest.

Orbit 0.2.1

Customize hub and Marketplace

A new Customize view brings MCP servers, Skills, Subagents, and Rules into one place, with a User (global) and Workspace (this project) scope for each. Open it from the chat-history sidebar, the Command Palette (Orbit: Open Customize), or the settings-gear menu.

• Marketplace: browse or search a curated catalog of MCP servers (Context7, Linear, Notion, GitHub, Sentry, Atlassian, Stripe, Playwright, Neon, Canva, Hugging Face, DeepWiki, Globalping, Figma, Brave Search, Slack, Puppeteer, and more) and ready-made Skills (Conventional Commits, PR Description Writer, Test Writer, Debugging Methodology, API Design Review). Install with one click; servers that need a token prompt for it before connecting.
• Project-scoped MCP servers: a workspace can now define its own .orbit/mcp.json, separate from the global ~/.orbit-editor/mcp.json. Project servers override a user server of the same name, each shows a scope badge, and enabling/disabling a project server only affects that workspace.
• Project-scoped Skills and Subagents: skills and subagents can now live in <workspace>/.orbit/skills and <workspace>/.orbit/agents in addition to the existing user-level directories, gated on workspace trust.
• OAuth sign-in for MCP servers: remote MCP servers that require a login (Linear, Notion, Sentry, Atlassian, Neon, Canva) now support an in-app Authenticate flow — Orbit opens your browser, completes the login over a local loopback redirect with PKCE, and stores the resulting tokens encrypted at rest.
• Rules: edit global AI Instructions or a workspace's .orbitrules file directly from Customize.

Reliability and hardening

• MCP server state is now merged correctly across user and project scopes, including enable/disable persistence and live config-file watching for both mcp.json locations.
• Config file watchers are rebuilt cleanly when workspace folders change, so switching projects can no longer leave a stale watch handle behind.
• Reviewed the full MCP OAuth and Marketplace implementation for security issues prior to release: the OAuth loopback server is bound to localhost only, each login flow is bound to its own PKCE verifier, stored tokens are encrypted via the OS keychain where available, and all skill/subagent file deletes are guarded to only ever touch paths inside a .orbit/skills or .orbit/agents directory.

macOS install

Two builds are attached to this release: Orbit-0.2.1-darwin-arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon) and Orbit-0.2.1-darwin-x64.dmg (Intel).

Recommended (no Gatekeeper warning):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

Or download the .dmg above, drag Orbit to Applications, then run once:

xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

Orbit isn't notarized by Apple yet, so a browser-downloaded .dmg shows a one-time "unverified developer" prompt; the command above clears it.

Orbit 0.2.0

Orbit 0.2.0 — see update/latest.json for auto-update manifest.

Orbit 0.1.4

Orbit 0.1.4 — standalone Agents window (Files, Editor, Changes, Terminal, Browser) + browser white-screen, Changes split-diff, and white-frame/white-sheet paint fixes. See update/latest.json for the auto-update manifest.

Orbit 0.1.3

Orbit 0.1.3 — macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) & Windows (x64 + ARM64)

🔒 Plan mode safety

Plan mode no longer lets the agent edit files or run shell commands after presenting a plan unless you explicitly click Build. StrReplace, Write, and Shell were previously reachable through guard gaps; those paths are now blocked at both the tool-policy and runtime layers.

✨ Tool approval redesign

Tool approval cards (shell, edits, AskQuestion, and more) now use a compact Skip · Always Run · Run button cluster aligned with the rest of Orbit's UI — clearer actions, tighter headers, and theme-aware focus states.

🖥️ Shell command card polish

The shell tool card now matches edit-tool cards: shimmer animation applies only to the title text while a command runs (no full-card sweep), meta tags render as pills, and collapsed/expanded states share one consistent card layout.

🐛 Fixes

• GLM 5.2 and OpenAI-compatible providers — fixed streaming tool-call fragmentation that caused path was null errors when using models like GLM 5.2; argument accumulation and param normalization are now reliable across providers.
• Plan card in chat — compact preview (2-line overview, capped todo list) without awkward scrolling.
• Chat text selection — fixed highlight overlay breaking selection in the chat input when long messages were truncated.

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Downloads

Platform	File
Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)	Orbit-0.1.3-darwin-arm64.dmg
Intel Mac	Orbit-0.1.3-darwin-x64.dmg
Windows x64	Orbit-0.1.3-win32-x64-setup.exe
Windows ARM64	Orbit-0.1.3-win32-arm64-setup.exe

Install — macOS

Recommended (no Gatekeeper warning):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

Or download the .dmg, drag Orbit to Applications, then run once:

xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

Install — Windows

Download the matching -setup.exe for your CPU (x64 for most PCs, ARM64 for Windows-on-ARM devices) and run it. If SmartScreen warns about an unrecognized app, click More info → Run anyway.

Auto-update is enabled for existing Orbit users — the app will prompt within a few minutes to hours.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

Orbit 0.1.2

Orbit 0.1.2

🌐 A browser your agent can actually use

Orbit now has a real, built-in browser that the AI agent drives for you — no setup, no separate steps.

• It opens itself when the agent needs it. Ask the agent to open a site or check something online, and a browser tab appears, loads the page, and the agent takes over from there.
• No interruptions. The agent can navigate, click, type, fill forms, scroll, and take screenshots across tabs without asking for permission every step.
• You can jump in anytime. When the agent is driving a tab, Take Control lets you grab the wheel instantly.
• Stays signed in. Tabs keep your logins between sessions.

🐛 Fixes

• Browser tabs now render reliably (fixed black-screen on open).
• Agent tab-open no longer stalls waiting for the renderer.
• Cleaner chat input toolbar.

Downloads

Platform	File
Apple Silicon (M1–M4)	Orbit-0.1.2-darwin-arm64.dmg
Intel Mac	Orbit-0.1.2-darwin-x64.dmg

Install (recommended — skips Gatekeeper warning)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

Or download the .dmg, drag to Applications, then run once:

xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

Orbit v0.1.1

Orbit v0.1.1

What's new

/design slash command

A new design-focused slash command is available in chat. Open the / menu, pick design, describe what you want improved, and send — the agent receives production-grade UI guidance injected into your message.

The /design command helps the agent:

• Read your target files, styles, and existing components before changing anything
• Ship real code changes (not mockups or vague suggestions)
• Hit a clear quality bar: contrast, hierarchy, spacing, interaction states, responsive layout, keyboard accessibility, and reduced-motion support
• Avoid generic AI UI patterns (gradient text, glass cards, identical icon-card grids, and similar tells)

Try it:

/design fix contrast on the settings panel
/design make the approval card work better on mobile
/design polish spacing in the chat input

Works with any model — the guidance travels with your message, not the system prompt.

Install (macOS)

Recommended — one-line install (no Gatekeeper warning):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

This installs via curl, which avoids macOS's browser quarantine tag — so Orbit launches with no Gatekeeper prompt.

Or download a .dmg below for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M-series): Orbit-0.1.1-darwin-arm64.dmg
• Intel: Orbit-0.1.1-darwin-x64.dmg

Browser-downloaded DMGs may show a one-time Gatekeeper notice because the app is not Apple-notarized yet. Right-click → Open, or use the curl installer above to skip it.

Auto-update

If you're already on Orbit, you'll get an in-app update notification for v0.1.1 within a few minutes to a few hours.

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Source: https://github.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor

Orbit v0.1.0 (Beta)

Orbit Editor v0.1.0 (Beta)

This is an early beta release. Expect rough edges — please open an issue if you hit one.

Install (macOS — Apple Silicon and Intel)

Recommended — one-line install (no Gatekeeper warning):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor/main/install.sh | bash

This installs Orbit straight into /Applications via curl, which never tags the app with macOS's com.apple.quarantine flag — so it launches with no Gatekeeper prompt, on any Mac, with no Apple Developer account required.

Alternative — download the .dmg below, then drag Orbit to Applications. Because Orbit is not (yet) notarized by Apple, a DMG downloaded through a browser is quarantined and macOS shows "Apple could not verify Orbit is free of malware." Bypass it once, any of:

• Right-click Orbit.app → Open → Open Anyway, or
• System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or
• Terminal: xattr -cr /Applications/Orbit.app

Pick the DMG matching your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M-series): Orbit-0.1.0-darwin-arm64.dmg
• Intel: Orbit-0.1.0-darwin-x64.dmg

Auto-update

Orbit checks update/latest.json on GitHub for new versions and will notify you in-app when an update is available.

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Source code: https://github.com/ashish200729/orbiteditor