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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.

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.

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.

No email address changes

Name, avatar, and password can all be changed after registering, and the account can be deleted — but there’s still no way to change the email address you registered with, through the app itself. See Account.

Most Settings sections are placeholders

Only four of the Settings page’s thirteen tabs actually do anything: Preferences, Profile, Notifications, and Security & access. Everything else — Integrations, Export, and the entire Workspace section (Labels, Statuses, Priorities, Templates, Documents, Members, Roles & management) — is visible in the navigation with a “Soon” badge but isn’t reachable. See Settings.

Mentions and project invites don’t notify anyone

IssueMentioned and ProjectInvited exist as notification types, each with their own default channel settings, but nothing triggers either one — there’s no @mention parsing in comments or descriptions, and no flow to invite someone to a project. See Notifications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No push notifications

Orbit supports in-app and email notifications, but nothing beyond that — no browser push, no mobile push. See Notifications.
None of this is hidden or broken — it’s simply not built yet. If you’re picking a first contribution, several of these are natural starting points; see Contributing.
Last modified on August 17, 2026