# Orbit Code

> An open source, live 3D alternative to Claude Code in the terminal, for vibecoders and programmers. Orbit Code is a VS Code extension and a desktop app that draws a repository as a 3D dependency graph and animates a live Claude Code session across it.

Current version: 0.2.1. Install in VS Code with `code --install-extension imshaikot.orbit-code`, or install and update in any VS Code based editor with `curl -fsSL https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install.sh | sh`. The site's pages also register WebMCP tools; see https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/agents/.

## Docs

- [Using Orbit](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/using-orbit.md): Reading the view, navigating, prompting Claude, answering permissions, the file card, the Flat view and the tour.
- [VS Code extension](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/vscode.md): An open-source, live 3D visual alternative to Claude Code in the terminal, for programmers and vibe coders alike: your codebase as a dependency graph in…
- [Desktop app](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/desktop.md): Orbit Code as a desktop app: an open-source, live 3D visual alternative to Claude Code in the terminal, for programmers and vibe coders alike, in a window…
- [Settings and commands](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/settings.md): Every command and setting the VS Code extension adds, read from its manifest (version 0.2.1). The desktop app reads the same settings from its own…
- [Indexer CLI](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/indexer.md): Indexes a workspace into the dependency graph Orbit Code draws: files are nodes, imports are edges, and directories group them.
- [Claude in Orbit](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/claude-session.md): How the `claude` CLI is run, conversations, permissions, questions, MCP, skills, files, history and subagents.
- [Troubleshooting](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): Logs, caches, and the failures with a known cause.
- [Architecture](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/architecture.md): The three bundles, the services, and how a graph, a layout and a Claude turn flow between them.
- [The graph pipeline](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/graph-pipeline.md): Indexing, language coverage, the graph hash, live updates and the layout.
- [The webview](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/webview.md): The three.js scene, focus and levels, GPU picking, the frame loop, colours, the HUD, and the constraints it is built under.
- [Hosts](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/hosts.md): What VS Code and the desktop app each provide, and what a third editor would have to.
- [The monorepo](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/monorepo.md): Projects, tags, boundaries, TypeScript per runtime, Nx targets and caching.
- [Contributing](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/contributing.md): The dev loop, where a change goes, the checks, CI and the commit conventions.
- [Releasing](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/docs/releasing.md): Version plans, release groups, tags, and publishing to the Marketplace, Open VSX, GitHub releases and npm.

## Install

- [Orbit Code for VS Code](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install/#vscode): Version 0.2.1 on the Visual Studio Marketplace, updated Sep 14, 2026. Needs VS Code 1.100.0 or newer.
- [Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install/#forks): These editors install from Open VSX, where Orbit Code is not listed yet. The install script puts version 0.2.1 into every one of them it finds.
- [Orbit Code desktop app](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install/#desktop): A window of its own for any folder, on macOS, Windows and Linux, with no editor needed. There is no packaged build yet, so run it from source for now.
- [Build the extension yourself](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install/#source): 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.
- [The indexer on its own](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/install/#cli): Index any repository into the dependency graph JSON that Orbit draws. It is not on npm yet, so run it from a clone.

## Optional

- [All docs in one file](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/llms-full.txt): every docs page as markdown
- [Changelog](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/changelog/): what changed in each release
- [For AI agents](https://orbit-code.imshaikot.com/agents/): the WebMCP tools and text endpoints
- [Source code](https://github.com/imshaikot/orbit-code): the orbit-code monorepo