Install or update Orbit Code
Choose your editor or the desktop app. Versions below are checked against GitHub, the Marketplace, Open VSX and npm every time the site builds.
What you need
Claude Code, signed in
For the live session. Without it you still get the 3D graph of your code.
VS Code 1.100 or newer
Or an editor built on it, such as Cursor, Windsurf or VSCodium. The desktop app needs no editor.
git
For diffs in the file card. The graph works without it.
Pick where to install
One command installs and updates
macOS and Linux
curl -fsSL https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install.sh | shWindows PowerShell
irm https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install.ps1 | iexFinds every VS Code based editor on your machine and installs the newest build. Run it again whenever you want to update.
Orbit Code for VS Code
Marketplace 0.2.3
Version 0.2.3 on the Visual Studio Marketplace, updated Sep 14, 2026. Needs VS Code 1.100.0 or newer.
Install Claude Code
Sign in once in a terminal. Orbit starts your own claude CLI, so skip this if you only want the graph.
Claude Code docsInstall the extension
Search for Orbit Code in the Extensions view, open the listing in VS Code, or run this in a terminal.
Open in VS Codecode --install-extension imshaikot.orbit-codeOpen Orbit
Reload the window, then run Orbit Code: Open from the Command Palette or click the Orbit icon in the activity bar.
Updating
VS Code keeps Marketplace extensions up to date on its own, so there is nothing to do.
Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium
Release 0.2.4
These editors install from Open VSX, where Orbit Code is not listed yet. The install script puts version 0.2.4 into every one of them it finds.
Install Claude Code
Sign in once in a terminal. Orbit starts your own claude CLI, so skip this if you only want the graph.
Claude Code docsInstall the extension
To install into one editor only, add its name at the end: sh -s -- --editor cursor.
macOS and Linux
curl -fsSL https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install.sh | shOr download orbit-code-0.2.4.vsix and use Install from VSIXWindows PowerShell
irm https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install.ps1 | iexOpen Orbit
Reload the window, then run Orbit Code: Open from the Command Palette or click the Orbit icon in the activity bar.
Updating
Run the same command again to install the newest version over the old one.
Orbit Code desktop app
Release 0.2.4
Version 0.2.4, released Sep 14, 2026, for macOS. A window of its own for any folder, with no editor needed.
Install Claude Code
Sign in once in a terminal. Orbit starts your own claude CLI, so skip this if you only want the graph.
Claude Code docsDownload and install
The builds are not signed yet. On macOS, if it will not open, choose Open Anyway in System Settings, Privacy and Security.
Open a folder
Choose File, then Open Folder, and trust the folder when asked so Claude can run in it.
Updating
Download the newer release and install it over the old one. Settings, trusted folders and recent folders are kept.
Orbit Code in your browser
npm 0.2.0
Server 0.2.0 on npm, published Sep 14, 2026. Run it in your project and the web client on this site connects to it on 127.0.0.1. Your code never passes through the site.
Start the server in your project
Needs Node.js 20 or later. It prints a link and opens it in your browser.
npx @imshaikot/orbit-code-serverInstall Claude Code
Sign in once in a terminal. Orbit starts your own claude CLI, so skip this if you only want the graph.
Claude Code docsConnect the web client
The link from the terminal connects the page. It also guides you if you open it first.
Open the web client
Updating
npx runs the newest server each time, and this site always hosts the web client of the newest release. Add @latest to skip a cached copy.
npx @imshaikot/orbit-code-server@latestBuild the extension yourself
Always available
Build the newest code on the main branch into a .vsix and install it in VS Code. Needs git, Node 22 or newer and Yarn 4 through Corepack.
Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/imshaikot/orbit-code.gitcd orbit-code && corepack enable && yarn installPackage and install
Builds a production .vsix and installs it with the code command.
yarn install-localOpen Orbit
Reload the window, then run Orbit Code: Open from the Command Palette or click the Orbit icon in the activity bar.
Updating
Pull, then package and install again.
git pull && yarn install && yarn install-localThe indexer on its own
From source
Index any repository into the dependency graph JSON that Orbit draws. It is not on npm yet, so run it from a clone.
Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/imshaikot/orbit-code.gitcd orbit-code && corepack enable && yarn installyarn buildIndex a folder
yarn index /path/to/project --out graph.json
Updating
Pull and build again.
git pull && yarn install && yarn buildChecked Sep 15, 2026.