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Tabs, panes & split layouts

Drag-to-split panes, tab groups, and pinned boundaries.

Orca's pane system is designed for watching multiple agents work without losing context. Tabs group into panes; panes split into layouts.

Drag a tab to a pane edge to split — terminals, diffs, and browser tabs side by side
Drag a tab to a pane edge to split — terminals, diffs, and browser tabs side by side

Tabs

Each tab holds one thing: a terminal, an editor buffer, a browser, a diff, a PR. Tabs live inside a tab group.

  • Drag a tab up-down within a group to reorder.
  • Drag a tab onto another group to move it.
  • An active-tab color bar marks which pane is focused.

Split panes

Drag a tab to the edge of a pane to create a split:

  • Right edge — splits left/right (horizontal split).
  • Bottom edge — splits top/bottom (vertical split).

Splits nest. You can have an agent terminal on the left, a diff view on the top-right, and a browser tab on the bottom-right — all at once.

Any tab type can split with any other — agent terminal, diff, browser, editor, PR view all coexist in one pane tree.
Any tab type can split with any other — agent terminal, diff, browser, editor, PR view all coexist in one pane tree.

Pinned boundaries

Pane boundaries stay where you put them. Resizing the window doesn't shuffle your layout; boundary positions are saved per worktree.

Tab groups across worktrees

Each worktree owns its own tab layout. Switching worktrees swaps the entire pane tree — your browser tab, terminal, and diff reappear exactly as you left them.