Known limitations

Orbit is under active development, and a few things are either partially built or not built at all. Each of these is covered where it’s relevant elsewhere in these docs — this page just collects them in one place so you don’t have to piece it together from individual callouts.

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No public or programmatic API

Orbit is a session-authenticated Inertia monolith. laravel/sanctum is a dependency but isn’t wired to any route, so there’s no way to authenticate an external client or call Orbit outside the browser. See Tech stack.

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Roles don’t gate any actions

The admin role is assigned automatically to the first registered account, but today it only affects which account sees the first-project onboarding flow. Admins and members can create, edit, and delete projects and issues equally — there’s no policy layer enforcing role-based permissions. See Roles and permissions.

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No profile or account management

There’s no way to change your name, email, password, or avatar after registering, and no way to delete your account, through the app itself — despite some unused backend plumbing for avatar uploads. See Account.

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Activity log has no UI

Every mutating action is recorded internally as an activity log entry, but nothing in the app currently reads it back out — there’s no page or panel that displays a project’s history. See Activity Log.

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No image insertion in the description editor

The issue description editor has Tiptap’s image extension configured, but no toolbar button, paste handler, or drag-and-drop wiring exists to actually let you insert one. See Writing issue descriptions.

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Comments and saved filters are create/delete only

Comments can’t be edited after posting, and you can only delete your own. Saved filters can’t be renamed or edited in place — deleting and re-saving is the only way to change one. See Comments and Saved Filters.

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Keyboard shortcuts are incomplete

Ctrl+K currently opens the same shortcuts help modal as ? and /, rather than a distinct command palette. There’s also no Mac-specific (Cmd) equivalent for any shortcut today. See Keyboard shortcuts.

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Notifications are in-app only

Orbit doesn’t send email or push notifications — everything happens through the in-app notification list. See Notifications.