Move Entire Orca Plugin to Windows

The new session works. entire status lists this session (b9941814…), so Entire's hooks run from Claude Desktop. Everything up to the Orca step of the phase 0.5 smoke test works.

What I checked

• Tests: all 9 pass with Node 26.
• Harness: I ran it inside Orca.exe in every scenario.
  • none and no-terminal give the expected errors. Without a terminal, "main on main" matches 13 workspaces.
  • Pointed at a real Orca terminal in the Windows workspace, it found the repo enabled, read in 421 ms.
  • Pointed at a WSL cc-palace terminal, it ran Entire in WSL and found that repo enabled too, in 446 ms.
  • Neither branch has a trail, so the Trail line just reports that, as intended.
• Plugin in Orca: Orca has already installed it from C:\Users\pcruc\Web Projects\orca-entire-extension, and its copy matches the repo's src/ and manifest. You don't need to press Restart.

The smoke test in Orca Orca's CLI can't run plugin commands, so this part is yours:

1. Focus the Windows orca-entire-extension workspace. It already has a terminal open, which the plugin needs to find the workspace's path.
2. From the command palette, run Entire: Check connection. You should see the same lines as the harness: the path, Entire CLI 0.12.3-nightly…, and Repo: enabled · agents: Claude Code, Codex.
3. Do the same in a WSL workspace such as cc-palace. The path should show as WSL Ubuntu /home/peterc/….

If either one reports that it can't start entire, Orca was probably already running when you installed the Windows nightly. Restart Orca to fix it; your terminals survive the restart.

One fix to the plan The Risks section of PLAN.md still said Windows runs 0.12.2. I updated it: both sides run the nightly. Codex's 7 hooks in this repo are actually waiting for you to approve them in Codex's /hooks, rather than out of date. That only matters if you use Codex here.

Committing Nothing is committed yet. If I commit, Entire attaches this session to the commit as a checkpoint, which counts as writing to Entire, so I'm asking first.

I committed everything on a new branch, plugin-scaffold, as c3dc393. The commit has all 19 files: the worker, the tests, the Orca harness, CLAUDE.md, the README and docs/PLAN.md with the Risks fix. main is unchanged.

Entire added an Entire-Checkpoint: 01M66Z87BKCQ1XE2YH4M1VCCP6 line to the commit message, which links this session to the commit. The checkpoint is only on your machine so far: entire status says it goes to origin with your next git push origin.

I haven't pushed. Phase 0.5 still needs you to run Entire: Check connection in Orca, in the Windows workspace and in a WSL workspace. Pushing after that keeps the smoke-test results with the same branch.

I won't push yet. plugin-scaffold and its checkpoint stay on your machine for now.

When you've run Entire: Check connection in the Windows workspace and in a WSL workspace, paste me what it shows. If both look like the harness output, I'll tick off phase 0.5 in docs/PLAN.md, commit that, and push the branch. If either one fails, I'll fix that first.

There isn't one. Orca 1.4.245's CLI can't run plugin commands: orca plugin doesn't exist in this build, and nothing in orca --help or orca agent-context runs a command-palette command. The plugin CLI is on Orca's main branch but hasn't shipped yet. So for the real smoke test, open the command palette in Orca and run Entire: Check connection.

The closest you can get from a terminal is the repo's harness. It runs the same worker code inside Orca.exe, but uses a fake host API instead of Orca's real one. Here it is for the Windows workspace's terminal:

And for the WSL cc-palace workspace's terminal:

I ran both earlier and they passed. They don't replace the smoke test, though. Phase 0.5 checks what only Orca can: that it loads the plugin, starts the worker with its own PATH, and passes back a real readContext with the terminals of the workspace you have focused. If a terminal handle has changed, get the current ones with:

You're right about /mnt/c, but that path alone doesn't fix it. Two things were wrong:

1. Wrong copy. Your WSL terminal is in ~/orca-entire-extension, the old WSL copy. The harness only exists in the Windows repo, hence Cannot find module.
2. Wrong Node. Even from /mnt/c/..., Linux Node runs the launcher, which stops with "Run this with Windows Node", because it has to start Orca.exe. Your /etc/wsl.conf has appendWindowsPath=false, so node.exe isn't on WSL's PATH and you have to call it by its full path.

This works from WSL. I ran it against the cc-palace terminal and the output matched the Windows run:

Changes:

• launch.mjs: when Linux Node runs it inside WSL, the error now prints the command above.
• CLAUDE.md and the README explain how to run it from WSL. CLAUDE.md also notes that the WSL copy has no harness.

Tests still pass (9/9).

This is still the harness, not phase 0.5. The real smoke test is Entire: Check connection in Orca's command palette.

I committed the fix as 36e1683 on plugin-scaffold. It's the second commit on top of the scaffold (c3dc393). Entire linked it to this session as checkpoint 01M66ZHHJBQ7Z8R89PRG89N070, and the working tree is clean.

I haven't pushed anything. When you've run Entire: Check connection in Orca's command palette, paste me what it shows for the Windows workspace and for a WSL one. I'll then tick off phase 0.5 in the plan and push the branch.

I installed both Entire skills for Claude Code and Codex, using entire agent add <agent> --agent-help-skill --search-skill.

• agent-help: a short pointer that tells the agent to run entire agent-help instead of guessing flags. For Codex, Entire installs it as a custom agent definition, not a skill file.
• search: tells the agent to use entire search --json --compact for questions about past work, then entire checkpoint explain on the best one or two hits. The Claude Code and Codex copies are identical.

I read all four files. They contain plain instructions only, nothing that runs anything.

Neither agent's hooks changed: Entire reported both as already installed. .entire/settings.json didn't change either. Codex's 7 hooks still need your approval in Codex's /hooks, as before.

To use the new skills here, this session would need a restart. That won't affect how the plugin works.

I committed the four skill files as 087b7a6 on plugin-scaffold, and Entire linked the commit to this session as checkpoint 01M66ZNNQ53M7QET3KKY03MJ3M. The working tree is clean.

plugin-scaffold now has three commits:

• c3dc393: the plugin scaffold and connection check
• 36e1683: how to run the Orca harness from WSL
• 087b7a6: the Entire skills

None of them is pushed yet. When you've run Entire: Check connection in Orca, paste me the results and I'll tick off phase 0.5 and push.

I'm not opening terminals on purpose. Every command I run goes through the Bash tool in the background. The popups probably come from console programs that Windows gives their own window because the process starting them has none. Checking which ones:

From now on I'll run commands in PowerShell, and use Bash or wsl.exe only when something actually needs WSL. I saved this as a memory, so later sessions in this repo will do the same.

Why the windows popped up: my shell runs without a console window of its own. When a process like that starts a console program, Windows can give that program a new visible window. Two things in this session did that:

• My wsl.exe calls through Bash, and one cmd.exe call.
• The harness itself: launch.mjs started powershell.exe without windowsHide, so every harness run flashed a window. The worker and the Orca.exe launch already hid theirs. I've added windowsHide: true there.

I ran the tests (9/9 pass) and the harness again, this time from PowerShell. Tell me if a window still flashed during that run.

If popups keep coming while I'm idle, the cause is probably Entire's Claude Code hooks, not my commands. Claude Desktop runs sh -c '… entire hooks claude-code …' from .claude/settings.json on every prompt and every stop. That's something to raise with Entire or Claude Desktop rather than change in this repo.

Committed as 2b25a95 on plugin-scaffold, with Entire checkpoint 01M67002CWDBW01Y6QGSM4C0JN. The working tree is clean.

The branch now has four commits: the scaffold, the WSL harness instructions, the Entire skills, and this fix. None of them is pushed. When you've run Entire: Check connection in Orca, paste me the results and I'll tick off phase 0.5 and push.

Good, that rules out login problems on either side. But Entire: Check connection never reports login, so I can't tell whether that came from the Orca run that phase 0.5 needs.

Phase 0.5 passes when Orca itself runs the plugin. Focus a workspace that has a terminal open, open the command palette, and run Entire: Check connection. Do it in the Windows orca-entire-extension workspace and again in a WSL one such as cc-palace. Each run should show:

• ✓ main on main → <path> (via terminal). For WSL the path reads WSL Ubuntu /home/peterc/….
• ✓ Entire CLI: Entire CLI 0.12.3-nightly…
• ✓ Repo: enabled · agents: Claude Code, Codex
• · Trail: … no discoverable project trail. That's expected, since there's no trail yet.

If you've done that and both runs look like this, say so or paste the output. I'll then tick off phase 0.5 in the plan, commit it and push plugin-scaffold. If either run shows a ✗ line, paste it and I'll fix that first.

You did nothing wrong, and the command probably ran. In Orca 1.4.245, the command palette runs a plugin command and throws away whatever it returns (plugin-quick-actions.ts). Our worker returned its report and assumed Orca would show it. Only the Run button on the plugin's row in Settings → Plugins shows a result, as a toast cut off at 200 characters.

What I changed

• main.mjs now reports in two places:
  • A desktop notification: titled "Entire: connected" or "Entire: connection problem", with the check's lines as the body.
  • The plugin's Logs: the full report goes to stdout, which Orca shows under the plugin's Logs in Settings → Plugins.
• The command still returns the report, for the Run button.
• orca-plugin.json asks for the notifications:show capability. I checked it against the v2 schema at the 1.4.245 tag.
• The harness fakes the notification, and doctor.test.mjs covers how the notification is worded. All 11 tests pass. The harness shows "connected" for the Windows terminal and "connection problem" when there's no terminal.
• CLAUDE.md and PLAN.md now note that the palette drops results.

To test it in Orca

1. Open Settings → Plugins. Orca still has the old copy of the plugin, so press Restart on Entire's row, or remove and re-add the development folder if Restart doesn't pick it up.
2. Approve the new notifications capability when Orca asks.
3. Run Entire: Check connection from the palette in the Windows workspace, then in a WSL one. You should get a Windows notification each time. If one doesn't appear, look at the plugin's Logs on the same Settings page: the full report and any notification error are there.

I committed the notification fix as 4cd1a37 on plugin-scaffold, and Entire linked it to this session as checkpoint 01M67AD4CRT014ACK7BTWVSSCD. The working tree is clean. The branch now has five commits, none of them pushed.

Next, in Orca:

1. Open Settings → Plugins and press Restart on Entire's row.
2. Approve the new notifications capability when Orca asks.
3. Run Entire: Check connection from the palette, once in the Windows workspace and once in a WSL one.

You should get a notification each time. If one doesn't appear, the plugin's Logs on the same Settings page show the full report and any notification error. Tell me what you see, and if both runs come back "Entire: connected", I'll tick off phase 0.5 and push.

You're right, there's no Restart button. I got that wrong, and the problem goes further: Orca isn't running this folder at all.

What's happening

• Orca's settings list no development folders (devPluginPaths: [] in its profile database, which I read from a copy).
• At 11:27, Entire was installed as a one-time copy of this folder (local-path in %APPDATA%\orca\plugins\plugins.lock.json). Orca runs that copy.
• The copy has the old code, which returns its report to the palette, and the palette throws it away. That's why you saw nothing.
• Turning the plugin off and on or pressing refresh only restarts that same old copy. That's also why Orca never asked you to approve notifications.

To switch to the live folder

1. In Settings → Plugins, uninstall or remove Entire, so the old copy is gone.
2. Click Development folders…, choose Add path, and enter C:\Users\pcruc\Web Projects\orca-entire-extension.
3. Review and enable it. It should now ask for workspace access and notifications.
4. Focus a workspace that has a terminal and run Entire: Check connection from the palette. You should get a desktop notification.

A development folder runs in place, and Orca reloads its manifest by itself. After I change the worker code, turn the plugin off and on so the next run starts a fresh worker with the new code. I've corrected CLAUDE.md and the README to say this instead of "Restart".

Once you've added the folder, tell me and I'll check from here that Orca registered it.

That was the earlier JSON file search finishing. Its non-zero exit most likely comes from Orca's locked lockfile, which it couldn't read. It doesn't change anything: Orca's profile database already showed that no development folders are registered. I'm waiting on you to remove Entire's installed copy and add this repo as a development folder. The doc fix isn't committed yet.

I committed the doc fix as 07a65c8 on plugin-scaffold, and Entire linked it to this session as checkpoint 01M67AXKYKHSSA8KPMD2MHB3W9. The working tree is clean. The branch now has six commits, none of them pushed.

Next, in Orca:

1. Remove Entire's installed copy in Settings → Plugins.
2. Under Development folders…, add C:\Users\pcruc\Web Projects\orca-entire-extension.
3. Approve the plugin, including notifications.

Tell me when that's done. I'll check that Orca registered the folder, and then you can run Entire: Check connection again.

Orca now runs the new code. You reinstalled at 5:20 PM, and that copy matches the repo, including the notification change. Orca also recorded your approval of the new capabilities.

It's still a copy, though, not a development folder: devPluginPaths is still empty. The Development folders… dialog is in the ⋯ menu on the Plugins settings page. If you add the folder there, my future edits will reach Orca without a reinstall. It doesn't matter for the smoke test, so it can wait. I've added the ⋯ menu to CLAUDE.md and the README. Those edits aren't committed yet; I'll include them in the phase 0.5 commit.

Now run Entire: Check connection from the palette, first in the Windows orca-entire-extension workspace and then in a WSL workspace such as cc-palace. Each run should pop up a Windows notification titled "Entire: connected" or "Entire: connection problem". If no notification appears, open Entire's Logs in Settings → Plugins: the full report is there, along with any error from showing the notification.

The plugin works. What's failing is Windows displaying the notification.

What Orca's records show

• Audit log: Orca's plugin audit log (%APPDATA%\orca\plugins-data\audit.log) has two notifications.show calls from plugin:petercr.entire, 51 seconds apart, both ok.
• Result: each title was 17 characters, the length of "Entire: connected". A failure would have been "Entire: connection problem", 26 characters. So both runs found the workspace and Entire, and the repo enabled.
• Delivery: Orca turns a plugin notification into an ordinary Windows notification, titled petercr.entire: Entire: connected. It reported ok, so Windows received both. Orca's notifications aren't switched off in Windows' per-app settings, so they were probably muted rather than lost.

To find them

• Press Win+N. If both notifications are listed there, Windows put them away silently. That usually means Do Not Disturb or Focus is on, or banners are off for Orca, under Settings → System → Notifications.
• In Orca, open Settings → Plugins → Entire → Logs. The full report from each run is there, including each step's timing.

Orca 1.4.245 offers plugins nothing else for showing results: panels can't talk to their worker yet, and there's no status bar item. That's already on our list of asks for the Orca team.

The smoke test passed: both workspaces reported connected in a Windows notification, so phase 0.5 is done.

What changed

• In docs/PLAN.md, phase 0.5 is ticked with a line saying both runs reported connected. The status line now reads "phases 0 and 0.5 done. Next: phase 1 spikes."
• That edit isn't committed yet. Neither are the ⋯ menu edits to CLAUDE.md and README.md. All three would go into one commit.

Before pushing The Entire remote (origin) has no branches yet. Git shows main's link to origin/main as gone. If only plugin-scaffold is pushed, it would be the first branch there and could become the remote's default. Pushing main first would make main the default. All seven commits on plugin-scaffold would go up, and Entire syncs their checkpoints as part of the push.

A small fix for later Orca adds the plugin id to the front of every notification title, so ours shows as petercr.entire: Entire: connected. We could drop our own "Entire: " prefix, which would also save a reinstall cycle later.

I committed the docs changes and pushed main and plugin-scaffold to the Entire remote.

• Commit: f225f6c "Mark the smoke test done and name the Development folders menu". It ticks phase 0.5 in docs/PLAN.md and adds the ⋯ menu edits to CLAUDE.md and README.md. Entire added a checkpoint trailer to it.
• Push: main went first, so it's the remote's first branch, and Entire uploaded 7 checkpoints with it. plugin-scaffold followed. A check of the remote shows both branches at the expected commits, and both now track origin.

Phase 1 is next: the spikes for real trail JSON, trail watch and the 5-minute idle shutdown, the consent flow, and the time budget per command. The real trail JSON needs a test trail, and I'll ask before creating one since it writes to Entire.

I've added an Entire panel to Orca's right sidebar, with a layers icon. Unit tests pass and the harness worked for a Windows and a WSL workspace, but I haven't seen it inside Orca yet, and nothing is committed.

What the panel shows for the focused workspace

• Repo: whether Entire is enabled, which agents are set up, unpushed checkpoints and the push setting, Codex hook state, and active sessions.
• Trail: the branch's trail, if it has one. No project here has a trail yet, so I couldn't see its real JSON. For now the panel lists the trail's plain fields as they come. Getting a real one is a phase 1 task, and creating a trail needs your OK.
• Checkpoints: the newest 20 on the branch, each with its message, agent, age and ID.
• Connection: the same check as Entire: Check connection.

How the data gets in

• The worker writes the data straight into the panel's HTML file, panel/entire.html. That file is generated from the committed panel/template.html and kept out of git.
• The panel holds up to 10 workspaces and every 2 seconds checks which one is focused.
• The panel updates when you run Entire: Refresh panel, when you run Check connection, and 3 seconds after an agent finishes in Orca.
• All Entire text is treated as untrusted. It's escaped inside the HTML file and only ever displayed as text, never as markup. A test covers someone trying to break out of the data block.

Fixed while previewing it: a variable named closed in the panel script clashed with a built-in property of the browser window, and the panel would have stayed blank in Orca. I renamed it and noted the trap in CLAUDE.md.

To try it in Orca

1. In Settings → Plugins, open ⋯ → Development folders… and add this folder. It takes over from your installed copy, which can never show data: Orca rejects an installed plugin once any of its files change.
2. Approve Entire again. Orca asks because the plugin now adds a panel, a command, an event subscription and the agent:read permission.
3. Focus a workspace with a terminal open and run Entire: Refresh panel.
4. Open the Entire panel.

panel/entire.html already exists in this folder. In a fresh clone, run node scripts/create-panel.mjs first, because Orca refuses the plugin while that file is missing.

Code changes

• src/worker/snapshot.mjs: collects the data. The three Entire calls now run at the same time.
• src/worker/doctor.mjs: builds the connection report from that data.
• src/worker/panel.mjs: writes the panel file, and never writes into an installed copy.
• src/worker/main.mjs: registers the new command and the agent event.
• orca-plugin.json: declares the panel, the command, the event and the new permission.
• test/panel.test.mjs and test/doctor.test.mjs: 20 tests in total now, all passing.
• Docs: README.md, CLAUDE.md and docs/PLAN.md explain the workaround and its limits.

The icon is missing because Orca is still running an old copy of Entire that has no panel. Orca Run isn't doing anything special.

How Orca Run does it. I read its installed manifest in %APPDATA%\orca\plugins\stablyai.orca-runner\. It declares one panel, { "id": "runner", "title": "Orca Run", "icon": "zap", "entry": "panel/index.html" }, and asks for no other permissions. Its panel/index.html is a single file built from its src/ by a build script. That's the same setup as ours: "icon": "layers" and panel/entire.html. Our manifest also passes Orca's v2 schema, including the layers icon.

What Orca is actually running. Orca's plugin lockfile still points Entire at the copy you installed from this folder at 5:20 PM, under %APPDATA%\orca\plugins\petercr.entire\d515cd77…. That copy's manifest has only the Check connection command, with no panel. Orca's settings list no development folders at all, so the new code in this repo never reaches Orca. Turning the plugin off and on, or restarting Orca, keeps loading that old copy.

To fix it. Load this repo as a development folder:

1. In Orca, open Settings → Plugins, click the ⋯ menu, then Development folders….
2. Type C:\Users\pcruc\Web Projects\orca-entire-extension into the path box and click Add path. It's a text field, not a folder picker. A development folder replaces the installed copy, because they share the petercr.entire id.
3. Review and enable Entire. Orca asks again because the plugin now adds a panel, a command, an agent event and the agent:read permission.
4. The layers icon should appear next to Orca Run's ⚡. Focus a workspace with a terminal open, run Entire: Refresh panel, and open the panel.

Don't install it from the folder again instead. That makes another frozen copy: the icon would show, but the worker never writes into an installed copy, so the panel would never update.

Orca is now running Entire from the repo. Its settings list C:\Users\pcruc\Web Projects\orca-entire-extension as a development folder, and your approval is saved for the new version that has the panel.

What's left to confirm is that the panel actually updates inside Orca. Right now panel/entire.html still holds only the two entries my harness test wrote at 7:44 PM. Orca's own worker hasn't written anything yet, and no Entire worker process is running. Nothing has asked for a refresh: you haven't run a command since approving, and agent events only come from agents Orca launches.

If you open the panel in the orca-entire-extension Windows workspace before refreshing, you may already see data. That's my test run, not the live worker.

When you run Entire: Refresh panel, the worker rewrites the panel file and Orca reloads the panel, with the timestamp showing "just now". If it doesn't change, I can see from the file whether the worker wrote anything, which tells me where the problem is.

The panel is working inside Orca.

When you ran Entire: Refresh panel at 8:02 PM, the worker running in Orca updated panel/entire.html, using the workspace Orca reported: plugin-scaffold on branch plugin-scaffold. It replaced the entry my harness test had written for the same folder, and Orca reloaded the panel with the new data.

What's in the panel now

• Windows workspace: fresh from Orca, with 7 checkpoints.
• cc-palace in WSL: still the harness test entry from 7:44 PM. It updates the next time you refresh with that workspace focused.

Known limits

• Development folder only: it updates only while Orca runs the plugin from a development folder.
• Reloads: it reloads with each update.
• Trail section: it lists a trail's raw fields until phase 1 gives us a real trail to design against.

The panel code, tests and docs are ready but not committed.

I rebuilt the panel to look like Orca's own source-control sidebar, and Checkpoints now starts closed. I also rewrote panel/entire.html from the new template, so Orca should already show the new look without a refresh.

What changed in panel/template.html

• Header: the workspace name with a colored dot (green when connected, amber when Entire isn't enabled, red on a problem) and how long ago the data was refreshed. The path sits under it. The branch shows only when it differs from the workspace name.
• Summary: short labels in place of the old list, showing Enabled, each agent, and the number of unpushed checkpoints.
• Warnings: a "Codex hooks are out of date" note, and any sync error, each show as a single highlighted line.
• Sections: headers like Orca's "COMMITS", in small capitals with a chevron and a count on the right.
  • Sessions: open by default. It only appears when there are active sessions.
  • Trail: open by default. When there's no trail it just says "No trail for this branch."
  • Checkpoints: closed by default. Each one takes two lines: the message, then the agent, age and the first 8 characters of its ID. The full ID is in the tooltip.
  • Connection: closed by default, with OK or Problem on the header. It opens by itself when a check fails.
• Text: long text is cut to one line, with the full text on hover.

One limit you'll notice: Orca reloads the panel whenever new data arrives, which happens on a refresh or when an agent finishes. Any section you opened closes again then. A sandboxed panel has nowhere to remember that choice.

I checked it in dark and light mode, and for both the Windows and WSL workspaces. Tests still pass. While I was at it, I wrapped the panel script in a function so its names can't clash with the browser's built-in ones again, which was the cause of the earlier blank panel.

I committed the panel work on plugin-scaffold as 9e82da8: "Add an Entire panel to Orca's right sidebar". It isn't pushed yet.

The commit covers 13 files:

• New: the panel template, the worker's snapshot and panel modules, the create-panel.mjs setup script, and the panel tests.
• Updated: the manifest, the worker's entry point and connection check, their tests, .gitignore, and the three docs.

The generated panel/entire.html stays out of git, so the working tree is clean.

I pushed plugin-scaffold to the Entire remote. It went from f225f6c to 9e82da8, and Entire uploaded 2 new checkpoints along with it. The remote branch is now at 9e82da8, the same as your local branch.

Next in the plan are the phase 1 spikes. The first one that matters for the panel is getting a real trail, so the Trail section can show real fields instead of listing raw ones. That means creating a test trail in Entire, so I'll ask before doing it.

Trails weren't set up, so I created this repo's first one: trail #1, "Entire for Orca: plugin scaffold and panel", linked to plugin-scaffold. Entire has no per-repo setting to turn on; trails are just created one per piece of work.

• Link: https://entire.com/et/entire-repos/-/trails/1
• Details: project et/entire-repos, type feature, status open, base main.
• Branch: plugin-scaffold is linked as change #1. It was already on origin, so nothing new was pushed, and my local checkout wasn't touched.

Merge gates. entire trail show --json now finds the trail from this branch, and it lists three gates on the current commit (9e82da8). All three block merging:

So the trail can't merge until someone approves it with entire trail approve. That writes to Entire, so it's your call.

The panel. It will show this trail after your next Entire: Refresh panel, or the next time an agent finishes. The Trail section was written before we had a real trail, so it currently lists the trail's raw top-level fields, including internal IDs. I saved the real JSON at C:\Users\pcruc\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\C--Users-pcruc-Web-Projects-orca-entire-extension\b9941814-e959-422d-9732-f2e5fbe2575f\scratchpad\trail-show.json to redesign it from.

The Trail section now shows trail #1 properly, and the panel has a ↻ button. The ↻ works only while the plugin's worker is running. I've tested it in a preview and with unit tests, but not yet in Orca, and nothing is committed.

What the Trail section shows now

• Header: "TRAIL #1" with a badge. Right now it reads a red Blocked, because a required gate is failing.
• Trail details: the title, "Feature · 1 change", and two lines of the description.
• One row per merge gate: ✕ Approvals, "No reviewers have approved this trail", 0/1. ○ Findings, not evaluated yet. ✓ Up to date.
• Also shown when present: merge conflicts, CI check runs, and other branches linked to the trail.
• Behind it: a new src/worker/trail.mjs trims Entire's trail JSON down to these fields, dropping internal IDs and accounts. The real JSON for trail #1 is saved as test/fixtures/trail-show.json and tested against.

How the ↻ reaches the worker

• Clicking it shows a notification titled "Entire: refreshing the panel".
• Orca records every plugin notification in its audit log, but only as the title's length. So that title has a length no other Entire notification uses, and a test enforces it.
• The worker checks the log once a second. When it sees that entry, it refreshes, and Orca reloads the panel.

What to expect when you click it

• Each click pops a Windows notification.
• It works only while the worker is running. The worker starts when you run a command or an agent finishes, and stops after 5 idle minutes.
• If no worker is running, nothing refreshes. After 12 seconds the panel says to run Entire: Refresh panel.
• It relies on Orca internals. It depends on an internal Orca file, so an Orca update could break it.

To try it in Orca: no worker is running now, so you don't need to restart the plugin.

1. Run Entire: Refresh panel once. That starts a worker with the new code.
2. Click ↻ in the panel. Within a few seconds the time should change to "just now".

One harness-related note: my harness test run replaced the Windows workspace's panel data. If the panel says "No Entire data yet" for plugin-scaffold, step 1 fixes that.

The ↻ click did reach Orca, but no plugin worker was running to pick it up, so nothing refreshed. I've changed the worker so it stays running for an hour after each refresh.

What happened. Orca's audit log has your click at 9:46:49 PM, with the exact entry the worker looks for, and the worker's code recognizes that line when run against the real log. But no Entire worker was running then, and Entire: Refresh panel hadn't run since 9:01 PM. That's when the panel file was last written, by my harness test. So the request had no listener. Orca stops an idle worker after 5 minutes, and it only starts one for a command or when an agent finishes.

The fix. Orca's idle timer resets whenever the worker itself calls Orca. So src/worker/main.mjs now makes a cheap "which workspace is focused" call every 2 minutes, for an hour after the last refresh. Each refresh restarts that hour, whether it comes from ↻, a command or an agent finishing. Once anything has refreshed the panel, ↻ keeps working while you're using Orca. After an hour with no refresh, the worker stops as before. The next agent finishing or Entire: Refresh panel brings it back. If you click ↻ in that gap, the panel tells you after 12 seconds.

To try it. No worker is running now, so you don't need to toggle the plugin.

1. Run Entire: Refresh panel from the command palette. That starts the worker with this code.
2. Click ↻. Within a few seconds the time should go back to "just now". You'll also see the "refreshing the panel" notification each time.

Tests pass (28) and the harness still exits in about 3 seconds. Nothing is committed yet.

I searched Orca's own log files and found nothing about Entire. Orca keeps each plugin's logs in memory and shows them only under Settings → Plugins → Entire → Logs, so no files mention it. That doesn't change the diagnosis: the click was logged, and no worker was running to pick it up.

When you're ready, run Entire: Refresh panel once, then click ↻.

The popup windows came from Entire's usage analytics, not from our code, and the plugin now switches analytics off for its own Entire calls. In a traced refresh that now opens zero windows, where before it opened about eight. ↻ should work too, once Orca's running worker is replaced. Nothing is committed yet.

Why the windows opened. After every command, Entire launches a background copy of itself, entire __send_analytics, to report usage. Entire's source on GitHub shows that on Windows this copy runs with no console (DETACHED_PROCESS). Each git it runs therefore gets a new console, and Windows Terminal opens one window per console. A refresh makes four Entire calls, so you saw a burst of windows. This is a bug in Entire on Windows; anything that runs entire from a GUI app will hit it. If you'd like, I can draft an issue for entireio/cli.

The fix. src/worker/entire-cli.mjs now runs every Entire call with ENTIRE_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1, which Entire documents as its opt-out. It also forwards the variable into WSL. Both of your installed Entire builds honor it.

• This affects only the plugin's background calls. Analytics from Entire commands you run yourself are unchanged.
• I didn't touch "telemetry": true in .entire/settings.json. If you want analytics off for the whole repo, run entire configure --telemetry=false yourself.

Why ↻ did nothing. Both of your clicks, at 10:05:07 and 10:05:27, came before Entire: Refresh panel started the worker at 10:05:51. There was no worker yet to hear them. That worker is still running at 10:14, past the 5 minutes when Orca would normally have stopped it, so the keep-alive works. But it's running the code from before the fix, and it would still open windows on every refresh.

To try it.

1. Turn Entire off and on in Settings → Plugins, so Orca drops the old worker.
2. Run Entire: Refresh panel. It should open no windows.
3. Click ↻. Within a few seconds the time should change to "just now".

Tests pass (30, including two new ones for the opt-out). I also added a note to CLAUDE.md so future code runs entire only through this path.

The windows come from Entire itself, not from the plugin. On this machine, every visible entire command opens about 3 Windows Terminal windows, whoever runs it. The plugin no longer triggers them; agents and anything else that runs entire still will.

What I measured

• Nothing in the background: in 45 seconds with nothing running, no windows opened and no entire processes started.
• One plain command is enough: a single entire status from my own shell, with no plugin involved, opened 3 windows. It started Entire's analytics process, and each git that process ran got its own console.
• Many sources: that same pattern fires for every visible entire command, whoever runs it:
  • my diagnostic runs this evening, which were a good part of what you saw;
  • agents using Entire's skills, such as entire search;
  • you, in any terminal;
  • the plugin, until you toggled it.
• Agent hooks aren't the cause: the entire hooks … commands that Claude Code and Codex run are hidden commands, so they send no analytics.
• Two rarer jobs, no opt-out: Entire's other background jobs have the same window problem. Session sweep runs at most every 15 minutes, and trail refresh at most hourly, both when an agent session starts. In this repo the trail refresh last ran at 1:52 PM.

What's fixed

• The plugin: a traced refresh with the fix opens zero windows.
• My own commands: I've saved a memory to always run entire with the opt-out, so my commands stop opening windows too.

What would stop it everywhere is setting ENTIRE_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 for your Windows user account. Every entire started afterwards skips analytics: agents, skills, and your own terminals. Orca, Claude Desktop and open terminals only pick it up after a restart. The cost is that Entire gets no usage analytics from this Windows machine. If you'd rather do it yourself, either of these works:

• run setx ENTIRE_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT 1;
• or turn analytics off per repo with entire configure --telemetry=false, which changes the committed .entire/settings.json that your teammates share.

The real fix belongs in Entire. Its Windows background launch uses DETACHED_PROCESS, so the child has no console at all. CREATE_NO_WINDOW would give it a hidden console that its git calls inherit. That also covers the sweep and trail refresh, which nothing on our side can switch off. I can draft an issue for entireio/cli with the trace evidence if you want to file it.

Nothing from this evening is committed yet: the Trail redesign, ↻, keep-alive, and analytics opt-out.

ENTIRE_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 is now set for your Windows user account, and it's saved in the registry under HKCU\Environment.

Next step: restart your apps. Apps that are already running don't pick it up, so the windows will keep appearing until you restart:

• Orca. Its agents and their entire calls inherit the setting from Orca.
• Claude Desktop. This session's hooks and my commands inherit from it.
• Any terminals you have open.

After that, no entire run on this machine sends analytics, so the windows stop. The exceptions are Entire's occasional session sweep and trail refresh. Those have no opt-out and still need a fix in Entire.

Restarting Claude Desktop ends this conversation in place, but it continues from history. Today's work (the Trail redesign, ↻, keep-alive, and the plugin's own analytics opt-out) still isn't committed, so you may want to commit before restarting.

The restart worked. This session now sees ENTIRE_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1, so my entire commands and this session's Entire hooks no longer open windows.

Orca still needs a restart. It's still the instance started at 10:35 AM, so agents running in Orca will keep opening windows until you restart it. The plugin's own calls are already covered either way, because it sets the opt-out itself.

Still uncommitted from today:

• the Trail redesign and its fixture;
• ↻ and the audit-log watcher;
• the keep-alive;
• the plugin's analytics opt-out;
• the new tests and the doc updates.

I fixed the ↻ problem, but couldn't reproduce the missing gates. The data reaches the panel file, so I need to see what Orca is actually showing.

Missing gates. Orca's worker wrote fresh data to panel/entire.html at 11:15:32 PM, when you ran the palette command with plugin-scaffold focused. That entry includes trail #1 with all three gates. I loaded that exact file in a preview with the same workspace and terminal, and the Trail section renders fully:

• TRAIL #1, with a red Blocked badge
• the title and description
• ✕ Approvals: "No reviewers have approved this trail", 0/1
• ○ Findings: not evaluated yet
• ✓ Up to date

So the data and the template work, and Orca is showing you something else. Some possibilities:

• Stale panel: Orca hasn't reloaded the panel since that write.
• Different workspace: the panel is following another workspace, such as main or the WSL copy. Neither has a trail, so you'd see "No trail for this branch."
• Display difference: Orca shows the panel in a way my preview doesn't.

A screenshot of the Entire panel, with the workspace list visible if possible, would tell me which.

↻. Your click at 11:14:49 came before any worker was running. The palette started one at 11:15:32. The one-hour keep-alive I added had expired, so ↻ had nothing to talk to. I've changed it so that once the worker starts, it pings Orca every 2 minutes and stays up until Orca quits or you turn the plugin off. After the first palette command or finished agent in an Orca session, ↻ keeps working. Before that, the panel still shows its hint after 12 seconds.

The worker running now (started 11:15:32) still has the old code. It will stop by itself around 12:15 AM, or you can turn Entire off and on to load the new code right away. Tests pass (30). Nothing is committed yet.

I rebuilt the Trail section to follow Entire's web view, as cards. Everything in your screenshot is there except the Confidence, Risk, Drift and Security scores, which Entire doesn't expose to the CLI. Orca should already show the new layout for plugin-scaffold, because I rewrote the panel file.

What the Trail section shows now

• Badge: "TRAIL #1" with Merged, Ready, Blocked or Open on the right.
• Change card: the repo and change number (endo.chat_backend #153), the author and age, then branch → base with +/− line counts and the trail title.
• Code review card: the verdict (Pass, Blocked, Reviewing or Not run), a bar with one segment per reviewer (the "Code review" agent and the Trail Review runner), and findings by severity.
• Merge card: a headline such as "Merged · Changes were merged into main" or "Blocked · 1 gate needs attention". Below it, one row per gate with a ringed ✓, ✕ or dashed icon and the same short summaries as the web view:
  • Approvals: "1 of 1", plus the approver's initial;
  • Checks: "2 of 2 passed";
  • Findings: "None blocking";
  • Up to date.
• Findings list: a severity tag, the title and file:line for each finding, or "None open".

Checked two ways. I previewed both of the trails that exist:

• Trail #1 on plugin-scaffold, from a real run: Blocked, Approvals 0 of 1, the review not run yet, and +1566 across 29 files.
• Trail #367, from its saved JSON: Merged, the review passed, every gate green. That matches your screenshot.

Where the data comes from. Entire's CLI returns more than the panel was using:

• trail show, run from the branch, gives every gate with its details.
• A new trail finding list call adds the base branch, author and findings. It runs at the same time as the other calls, so a refresh doesn't take noticeably longer.
• The +/− counts come from git diff --shortstat against the base. A branch name from Entire reaches git only if it's a plain ref name.

Not included: Entire's CLI and its API types don't expose the Confidence/Risk/Drift/Security score tiles. The web view must get them from an internal endpoint, and I didn't want to guess at it.

Your Orca worker is still on the old code. Toggle Entire off and on, then run a refresh, to load this code and the always-on keep-alive. Until then the old worker's refreshes will drop the new details.

Tests pass (35). docs/PLAN.md records the new fixtures and the missing scores. Nothing is committed yet.

The panel looks old because the worker running in Orca is still on old code. Worker 1796 started at 10:52 AM, before today's Trail changes. When you refreshed at 11:25, it wrote its older, thinner trail data: no review, findings, base branch or line counts, and the old gate format. The new layout then had little to draw.

Toggling the plugin off and on is what replaces that worker. The keep-alive I added last night makes this worse: a running worker now never goes idle, so it keeps its old code until you toggle.

To fix it:

1. In Settings → Plugins, turn Entire off, then on.
2. Refresh with Entire: Refresh panel. ↻ won't work until a worker is running again.

The new worker will write the full data and the cards will come back. If they don't, tell me and I'll check the panel file again.

You see no findings because nothing has reviewed trail #1. The project it's in, et/entire-repos, has no review agents configured, and Entire found no findings of any status for it. The panel also had a gap: it only asked Entire for open findings, so resolved ones never showed up anywhere. I've fixed that.

What I checked

• This project: et/entire-repos has no review agents.
• Your web screenshot: that was from gh/petercr, which runs Entire's preset Code review agent (Codex, gpt-6.1-sol) on every push of a ready change. That agent produces the findings, the Pass/Blocked verdict, and the "signal" behind the score tiles.
• Trails with real findings: in gh/petercr, trail #366 has 1 resolved finding and #358 has 6. Those are what I tested the panel against.

What changed in the panel

• All statuses: the worker now asks for findings of every status, including resolved and dismissed, and from older code versions too.
• Finding cards: each finding is an expandable card, open findings first, then by severity. Collapsed, it shows:
  • severity, status (with a "Stale" tag when it was found on an older version) and confidence;
  • a short summary of the defect;
  • the file and line range.
• Expanded: a card shows the agent's full explanation and a green Resolved: box saying how it was fixed, or the reason it was dismissed.
• Header: the Findings header shows counts, such as "0 open · 6 resolved".
• Verified: I previewed all six of #358's findings with their real text. Tests pass (35), including one built from a real finding's shape.

To see it in Orca: turn Entire off and on to load the new worker code, then refresh. Trail #1 will still say "No findings on this branch" until a review agent runs on it.

To get reviews on this repo: Entire's preset agents run on free credit:

• Code review: bugs and regressions; the one your other project uses.
• Security review: vulnerabilities.
• Slop: rates how much avoidable work a change adds.

Adding one writes to your Entire project, so I'm asking first. It reviews on the next push of plugin-scaffold, and the panel will then fill in the verdict, gates and findings. The score tiles would still need a way to read the agents' signals, and the CLI doesn't expose one.

Nothing is committed yet.

Entire's Code review agent now runs on this project (Codex, gpt-6.1-sol). The project had no agent environment yet, so Entire also created one called "Default". entire project agent list confirms the agent is enabled and reviews orca-entire-extension.

When it runs: Entire says the agent reviews "pushes to a branch with an open Change that is ready for review". So the next push of plugin-scaffold should start a review of trail #1's change. One open question: this repo has an approvals gate, and Entire's help says repos with that gate track whether a change is ready. I can't tell from here whether change #1 counts as ready. If the push doesn't start a review, that's where to look.

Once it has run, the panel will show:

• Code review card: Pass or Blocked, plus the agent's bar segment.
• Findings gate: "None blocking" or a count of blocking findings.
• Findings: any findings, as the new cards.

All of today's panel work is still uncommitted, so a commit and push would also start the first review.

The panel work is committed and pushed, but Code review didn't run on the push.

Commit and push

• Commit: 3d1e095, "Show trails like Entire's web view, add a panel refresh, stop popup windows". It has 19 files, including the new trail, git and refresh modules, the trail fixtures and the tests. Entire added a checkpoint trailer, and the generated panel/entire.html stayed out of git.
• Push: plugin-scaffold went from 9e82da8 to 3d1e095 on the Entire remote, with 1 checkpoint. Local and remote match.

Why Code review didn't run. Entire evaluated the findings gate on the new commit within seconds and passed it with "No blocking findings". But the gate's own data shows nothing reviewed anything: "reviewer_configured": false, "reviewed_head": false, and no reviewers listed. The agent's setup matches the one that works in gh/petercr: enabled, reviewing this repo, triggered on push. The trigger has one condition: "when": "ready". Entire's help says that in a repo with an approvals gate, which this one has, a change is reviewed only once it's marked ready. In gh/petercr that happens when a GitHub pull request leaves draft. Nothing in Entire's CLI marks an et/ change ready.

To get the review going, try marking change #1 ready in Entire's web UI, at https://entire.com/et/entire-repos/-/trails/1. Then I'll check whether the review starts, and push again if it needs a new push to trigger. Once it runs, the Code review card, the findings gate and the findings list in the panel will fill in.

Entire confirms the review is running. As of 12:48 PM, trail #1's findings gate reads "Waiting for the agent review of the current head". Entire now reports a reviewer configured for the gate, with a review in progress on commit 3d1e095. Marking the change ready was what was missing, so no extra push was needed.

Entire runs this review on its own servers, not as an agent inside Orca. So the panel won't refresh by itself when the review finishes. The automatic refresh only follows Orca's own agents. Preset agents can take up to 20 minutes.

• While it runs: if you refresh now, the Code review card should say Reviewing in amber and the Findings gate Not evaluated yet.
• When Entire's web page shows the review finished: press ↻ in the panel. You should see Pass or Blocked, the agent's bar segment, the findings gate's summary, and any findings as cards with their severity, confidence and text.

The panel now shows Fail, matching Entire's web UI. The two disagreed because they answer different questions.

Why the two disagreed. Entire has two separate answers for trail #1:

• The Code review agent's verdict: it fails whenever the agent reports any defect, blocking or not. It reported 2 medium findings, so the web UI shows Fail.
• The findings gate: it blocks merging only on high findings (agent_findings_min_severity: "high"). Two medium ones pass it, so "None blocking" is correct.

My panel took its verdict from the gate, which is why it said Pass.

The fix

• Worker: src/worker/trail.mjs now computes the verdict the way Entire defines it. Any finding from a finished reviewer means Fail; a finished review with none means Pass. A review still in progress shows Reviewing, and no review shows Not run.
• Panel: the reviewer's bar segment turns red when it found something, and its tooltip gives the count, such as "2 findings, none blocking". The merge card still shows the findings gate as passed, which matches Entire.
• Tests: I saved trail #1's reviewed state as a fixture. Tests now cover Not run, Fail (trail #1 now) and Pass (#367). All 37 pass.
• In Orca now: I refreshed the panel through the harness, so it already shows Fail and both findings.

Before the next refresh, turn Entire off and on in Orca. The running worker still has the old code, and its next refresh would show "Not run" until you do.

The two findings are real bugs in this plugin:

1. Overlapping refreshes (src/worker/panel.mjs:65, medium, 98%). A command refresh can run at the same time as a queued agent or ↻ refresh. Both then read the old panel file and write the same temp file, which can fail the rename or drop a workspace's data. The fix is to run every panel write one at a time.
2. Wrong workspace's trail (panel/template.html:924–926, medium, 99%). When the terminal IDs don't match, the panel falls back to matching on name and branch. That can show repo A's trail under repo B's header when both are main/main. The fix is to skip that fallback when the terminal IDs say it's a different workspace, and when more than one entry matches.

The verdict fix isn't committed yet.

I fixed both bugs Code review found and pushed them. Code review is already reviewing the new commit; whether it marks the two findings resolved won't be known until it finishes. You were asking for those two fixes; I checked and there are no other findings.

Commit: 8d060b5, "Match Entire's review verdict, serialize panel writes, stop cross-repo matches". It's pushed to plugin-scaffold with 2 checkpoints, and local matches the remote.

The fixes

1. Overlapping refreshes (src/worker/panel.mjs). A command, a finished agent and ↻ can each trigger a refresh, and those writes to the panel now take turns. Two overlapping refreshes can no longer start from the same old panel file and drop a workspace. Temporary files now include the process id, so the harness and Orca's worker never collide.
   • Tested: two refreshes started at the same moment both end up in the panel. That test fails without the fix and passes with it.
2. Wrong workspace's trail (panel/template.html). When terminal IDs don't match, the panel falls back to name and branch only if terminals can't tell workspaces apart and exactly one entry matches.
   • Checked in a preview: a main/main workspace with a different terminal now shows "No Entire data yet" instead of cc-palace's trail, and cc-palace itself still finds its data.

The commit also includes the verdict fix, which shows Fail whenever the agent reports a finding. Tests pass (38).

Code review is re-running: the findings gate on 8d060b5 reads "Waiting for the agent review of the current head". The agent's rules count a finding as fixed only when the code at its location changed, which is the case for both. When the review finishes, press ↻ to see the new verdict. First turn Entire off and on in Orca so the worker runs this code.

I fixed the branch-switch finding and pushed it as 657f96a. Code review should review the new commit, but I don't know yet whether it will pass.

The bug: a workspace keeps the same terminals when it switches branch. So matching by terminal alone found the snapshot from the old branch, and the panel showed that branch's trail, review and checkpoints under the new branch's header. Now a terminal match only counts if the stored branch matches the current one too, as the finding suggested. When the worker refreshes on the new branch, its snapshot replaces the old one, because they share a terminal.

Checked in a preview, using the cc-palace entry with its own terminal:

• Switched to feature-x: the panel shows "No Entire data yet" instead of main's data.
• Back on main: the panel shows main's data as before.

Tests pass (38).

This change is only in the panel template, so Orca uses it from the next panel write. You don't need to toggle the plugin for it. When Entire shows the review finished, press ↻ to see the new verdict. If Code review finds something else, paste it here like this one and I'll fix it.

I approved trail #1 for plugin-scaffold, and it's now ready to merge.

Before approving, I checked that the review covered 657f96a, the latest commit on the branch. Code review completed there with no findings. All three earlier findings are marked resolved: the overlapping writes, the cross-repo match, and the branch switch.

After approving, Entire reports:

• Approvals: passed, "1 approval(s) recorded"
• Findings: passed, "Agent review found no blocking issues"
• Up to date: passed
• Mergeable: yes, with no conflicts

After a refresh (↻), the panel's Trail section should show the Ready badge and "Ready to merge", with all three gates green. The Code review card should show Pass.

Nothing is merged yet. entire trail merge would merge plugin-scaffold into main on the Entire remote, which also writes to Entire.

plugin-scaffold is merged into main.

• Dry run first: Entire confirmed the change was mergeable, with no conflicts and all three gates passed (approvals, findings, up to date).
• The merge: Entire merged change 1 of trail #1 into main as a fast-forward, so there's no merge commit. main now points at 657f96a, the same commit as plugin-scaffold, so everything from this session is on main.
• Branches: I asked Entire to keep the remote plugin-scaffold branch, so nothing was deleted. Your checkout is still on plugin-scaffold. I moved local main forward to 657f96a without switching branches.
• Trail #1: its change is now merged, and the panel's merge card will say "Merged · Changes were merged into main" after a refresh. The trail itself is still open: merging a change doesn't close its trail. Trail #1 was meant to track the plugin scaffold and panel, and that change is all it holds.

Trail #1, "Entire for Orca: plugin scaffold and panel", is closed. Entire marks it closed as of 2:14 PM your time, with its one change (plugin-scaffold) merged into main.

plugin-scaffold no longer has an open trail, so the panel's Trail section may now say "No trail for this branch". Entire's trail show finds a branch's trail through open work, so I can't be sure what it returns for a closed one. The trail is still on Entire's site: https://entire.com/et/entire-repos/-/trails/1.

For the next piece of work, a new branch and a new trail will get the full cards again, and Code review now runs on this project automatically.

The panel now refreshes on its own every 5 minutes, and a few seconds after you switch workspaces. All 44 tests pass, and the worker ran a full check in the harness. I haven't tried it in Orca yet. To pick up the new worker code, turn the plugin off and on.

How a refresh starts now

• Orca doesn't send plugins an event when you switch workspaces. So the worker asks Orca every 5 seconds which workspace you're on. That same call also keeps Orca from stopping the worker, which used to need a separate call every 2 minutes.
• When you switch: the worker reads Entire for the new workspace a few seconds later, unless it read that workspace less than a minute ago.
• Every 5 minutes: it reads the workspace you're on again.
• Other triggers still work as before: an agent finishing, ↻, and the commands.
• Only the workspace you're on gets read. Other workspaces keep their last data until you switch back to them, so the panel doesn't run Entire for up to 10 workspaces in the background.

What switching looks like in the panel

• A workspace the plugin has read before: its last data shows right away, with how old it is in the header, then updates a few seconds later.
• A new workspace, or the same workspace after a branch change: the panel shows "Reading Entire for this workspace…" until the data arrives. It used to say "No Entire data yet", which pointed at the Development folders setting.
• A workspace with no terminal open: this hasn't changed. If another workspace has the same name and branch, the panel still asks you to open a terminal.

One thing that changed so the timer doesn't get in your way

• Every write to the panel file makes Orca reload the panel, which closes any finding you expanded and loses your scroll position.
• So the 5-minute, switch and agent-finished refreshes now write only when Entire's data has actually changed. ↻ and the commands still always write.
• The age in the header now means when the data last changed, and the footer says when the panel checks.

Limits

• After Orca starts, nothing refreshes automatically until the worker is running. It starts the first time you run a command or an agent finishes.
• Orca has no setting that starts a plugin's worker when Orca launches.

The new logic is in focus.mjs, and the skip-unchanged check is shownAlready in panel.mjs. Nothing is committed yet. The changes are on plugin-scaffold, whose trail is closed, so a new branch and trail would be the clean place to commit them.

A workspace switch now updates the panel on its own, and the panel shows "Checking…" while it waits. I haven't tried it in Orca yet. All 44 tests pass, and I checked the panel's switch behavior in a browser preview with a fake Orca. To pick up the change, turn the plugin off and on.

Why you had to hit ↻: the switch check was running. Orca's worker had restarted at 2:49 with the new code. Two things made it look like nothing happened:

• It skipped unchanged data. When Entire's data hadn't changed, the worker didn't rewrite the panel, so the header kept saying "40 min ago". I did that so the panel wouldn't reload under you, but it made current data look stale.
• It was slow with no sign of progress. Reading a WSL workspace takes up to ~20 seconds (your last ↻ took 20). Nothing in the panel showed a check was running, so ↻ was the obvious move.

What changed:

• A workspace switch always rewrites the panel, so the header resets to "just now". Switching back within a minute still skips the read, because that data is already current.
• The panel shows "Checking…" and spins ↻ after you switch to a workspace whose data is over a minute old, until the new data arrives. If nothing arrives within 45 seconds, it stops spinning, since the worker probably isn't running.
• The 5-minute check still writes only when something changed.
  • I checked Orca's code: every write builds a new panel frame, and panels have no storage to remember what you had expanded. So a write every 5 minutes would collapse things.
  • The trade-off: if you stay on one workspace, the header shows when the data last changed, not when the worker last checked.
• Each automatic check now writes a line to the plugin's Logs, such as "Checking Entire for main on main (switch)". If a switch still doesn't update, that shows whether the worker saw it.

The changes are in focus.mjs, main.mjs and template.html.

The panel now updates on its own when you switch workspaces, and you've confirmed it in Orca. It also checks Entire every 5 minutes and when an agent finishes.

Nothing is committed yet. The changes are sitting on plugin-scaffold, which is already merged into main and whose trail is closed. I'd put them on a new branch off main, such as auto-refresh, commit there, and open a new trail so Code review runs on them. The new trail writes to Entire, so I'll wait for your go-ahead.

Shall I make the branch and commit, and should I create the trail too?

Branch auto-refresh is committed and pushed, and trail #2 is open for it.

• Branch: auto-refresh, made from main. It has one commit, 75d29cb, "Refresh the panel on workspace switches and every 5 minutes".
• Pushed: creating the trail pushed the branch to origin. I removed the branch's link to origin/main first so it couldn't push to main.
• Trail #2: "Entire for Orca: refresh the panel on its own", a feature against main, with its change orca-entire-extension/2 open. https://entire.com/et/entire-repos/-/trails/2

As with trail #1, Code review starts only once you mark the change ready in Entire's web UI. Your Orca workspace is on auto-refresh now, so the panel's Trail section should show #2 the next time it checks.

I fixed both Code review findings on trail #2 and pushed the fix to auto-refresh as 76901b8. All 48 tests pass and the worker runs correctly in the harness. I haven't tried it in Orca yet; turn the plugin off and on to pick it up.

The findings:

• Medium: switch a workspace from branch A to B and back within a minute, and the panel stayed empty. B's data had replaced A's in the panel, but the worker still counted A as fresh and skipped the read.
• Low: after a 5-minute check found nothing new, the worker counted the workspace as fresh, but the panel's timestamp stayed old. Switching away and back then showed "Checking…" for 45 seconds with no read coming.

The cause: both came from the same mismatch. On a switch, the worker judged freshness by when it last read the workspace, while the panel judged by the data it actually shows.

The fix:

• The worker now decides a switch from the panel file. It finds the entry the panel shows for that workspace and skips the read only if that entry is under a minute old. Otherwise it reads, which also fixes the branch round trip.
• The two lookups stay in step. The worker uses its own copy of the panel's lookup (findShown in panel.mjs). A test runs the panel's own lookup from template.html on the same cases, so the copies can't drift apart.
• A skipped switch starts the 5-minute clock from the panel entry's time, so staying on the workspace doesn't trigger a read on the next poll.

Code review should rerun on this push. If it doesn't, the change may need marking ready again in Entire's web UI, as it did on trail #1. I left the findings for the rerun to resolve rather than marking them myself in Entire.