🚀 Orbit v0.2.0 — MaxQ

Released 2026-08-23

Multi-repo Git workspaces for any coding agent — real worktrees, no index, no server.

MaxQ is the ascent phase where aerodynamic stress peaks and the airframe either holds or doesn't — seven weeks of daily dogfooding put this release under exactly that, and the structure held: 26 PRs of hardening, contract pinning, and repair.

Highlights

• The destructive surface is now machine-enforced. prune and sync --force/--branch run from the project root only, verified by process ancestry — not by convention. Prune was rebuilt around all-or-nothing validation, per-branch verdicts, and a .prune-trash recovery window.
• The context system was redesigned. Session start injects a purpose-built startup block (goal, repo memos, staleness); resume/compact get a cheap cruise block. Hooks anchor to the host-injected project dir, so injection works across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Qoder — IDE included.
• Install means latest. Every install run now refreshes the marketplace snapshot and reinstalls the plugin from it; --force is a full reset (with a reachability probe so an offline reset can't destroy your last working install). The runtime itself refreshes the same way.

⚠️ Breaking changes (upgrading from 0.1.0)

• prune and sync --force/--branch run from the project root only — the CLI checks the calling shell's process ancestry, so cd-ing out first does not bypass it, and no flag does either. prune also left the agent skill's action surface: agents report the need, humans run it.
• prune --force now overrides the data guards too, not just branch protection — it announces what it discards first.
• prune --verify removed (merged-PR evidence now applies automatically from recorded PR URLs when gh is available); ORBIT_BRANCH_PREFIX is no longer read (use orbit config branch.prefix).
• install.sh refreshes on every run; --force is now a full plugin+marketplace reset (it probes source reachability first).
• Pool fetch and push config is Orbit-maintained (wildcard refspec + fetch.prune + push.default=upstream; opt out per key via orbit config) — a bare git fetch/git pull in any worktree now fetches every branch.
• Output contracts changed: the old fetch-refspec reconciliation lines are gone and prune's report shape changed — update anything that greps orbit's output.
• OpenCode plugin/skill removal is directory-level — anything inside ~/.config/opencode/skills/orbit/ is deleted.

Also in: network-resilient installs (source chain + retries), SSH-less plugin install, demo runs on zero-config machines, guidance for config-management tools that silently roll back plugin registration (USAGE — recovery and prevention, per host), and a set of removals (stop hooks, the refspec registry, --replace-marketplace, and more — the full list is in the changelog); the mission drops spent weight to stay on course. Covered by 396 bats tests.

Full details in the changelog.