Orca 1.8.0

Orca is a personal, self-hosted AI agent you talk to — it reasons, calls tools, edits files, runs commands and reaches you across the web dock, the orca CLI, Discord and WhatsApp.

Highlights

Added

• Talk to Orca launcher — running orca in a terminal opens Talk to Orca as the first menu action, dropping you straight into the interactive chat (also orca chat).
• Rewritten user manual — a full agent-first documentation site (getting started, tasks & missions, agents & autonomy, web UI, CLI, brain & chat, plugins, projects, configuration, account & security, architecture), now illustrated with screenshots.
• Plugin illustrations — each bundled plugin ships an illustration on its detail page.
• MCP bridge plugin — connect external Model Context Protocol servers (stdio / HTTP / SSE) and expose their tools to the assistant.
• Configurable agent step limit and per-model context windows (Settings → Orca AI).
• Open a session in the web chat — continue any session in the web dock with full history.

Changed

• Consistent "+N more" pills — one shared pill control across plugin config, cron pickers, user tools and the model catalog.
• Step counter is a stall hint — on Discord and WhatsApp the Step N / MAX line now appears only after ~60s without visible progress and clears on the next tool call or reply.

Fixed

• Friendlier /compact, stripped vision-fallback reasoning leaks, cleaner Discord output, and a round of lint / dead-code / dependency-graph cleanup.

Install: npm install -g orcasynth · Docs: https://orca.dragocz.dev