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Orca

Open-source desktop workbench that runs coding agents side-by-side in parallel git worktrees, with a mobile companion

Plugins & Agentsagent orchestrationdesktop appgit worktreesmulti-agentmobile companionopen source
Visit projectstablyai/orca

Orca puts terminal coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Grok CLI, Cursor CLI and more — into one desktop workbench: each agent runs in its own git worktree, one prompt can fan out across agents for compare-and-merge-the-winner workflows, and the box includes native GitHub and Linear views, SSH remote worktrees, a mobile companion for monitoring and steering from your phone, and a usage panel showing Claude/Codex rate-limit resets. Any CLI agent that runs in a terminal works with it.

What it does

  • Parallel worktrees: fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree, then compare results and merge the winner
  • Mobile companion (iOS App Store and Android APK) notifies you when an agent finishes and lets you send follow-ups from anywhere
  • Native GitHub and Linear: open a worktree from any task, browse PRs, issues and boards, and drop comments on AI diffs back to the agent
  • Design Mode sends a clicked UI element's HTML, CSS and cropped screenshot from a real Chromium window straight into the agent prompt
  • SSH worktrees run agents on a remote box with full file editing, git and terminals, with auto-reconnect and port forwarding
  • Usage tracking and account switcher show Claude and Codex rate-limit resets and hot-swap accounts without re-logging in

When to use it

Developers running several coding agents at once — comparing how Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode tackle the same task in separate worktrees, steering long-running agents from a phone, or keeping remote-box agents in the same window as local ones. Also fits people who want GitHub/Linear tasks and agent sessions in one place instead of hopping between terminal tabs.

Getting started

# macOS (Homebrew) - always use the full name; bare `orca` is an unrelated Plotly cask
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca
brew upgrade --cask stablyai/orca/orca

# or download from https://www.onorca.dev/download
# direct builds on GitHub Releases: orca-macos-arm64.dmg / orca-macos-x64.dmg / orca-windows-setup.exe / orca-linux.AppImage

# Arch Linux (AUR)
yay -S stably-orca-bin   # or stably-orca-git to build from source

Things to know

Created 2026-03-17 (115,380 stars as of writing). It is a desktop app: agents still need their own CLI subscriptions or API keys, and the mobile companion pairs with a desktop host through the relay service under cloud/ in this repository. The project ships daily — the README says its feature list is perpetually behind the changelog. Orca collects anonymous usage telemetry with a documented opt-out; Windows builds are signed via SignPath. The Homebrew cask lives under the stablyai tap because the bare `orca` name belongs to an unrelated Plotly cask, per the README's own warning.

Repository

stablyai/orca

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