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Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS.

⭐ Very popular: 31k stars, gaining about 6k a week

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repo profile

delivery product
language TypeScript
license MIT

momentum

total stars 31k
stars added last week +6k
weekly downloads 120 /wk · npm
binary downloads 199k total · GitHub releases
commits / week 368 steady · -7% vs prior mo
contributors 269
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Stably AI (YC W22)
openness permissive
bus factor 3 concentrated
top-author share 29% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

why it's a big deal

  • It reframes the coding agent as something you orchestrate rather than something you are locked into, running several side by side on accounts you already pay for.
  • Parallel worktrees turn agent choice into an experiment: fan one prompt across models, keep the winner, discard the rest.
  • The desktop-plus-mobile design signals that agent supervision is becoming its own workflow, not a feature bolted onto an editor.

under the hood

  • Electron desktop app, roughly 97% TypeScript, with a Swift mobile companion; macOS, Windows and Linux.
  • Agent-agnostic - works with any CLI agent that runs in a terminal, with an account switcher and usage tracking built in.
  • Scriptable CLI (orca worktree create, snapshot, click, fill) and a headless orca serve mode for remote servers. MIT-licensed.

our take from PR#38, 2026-07-15

star history

PR#38 · 20k31k now Mar 2026Jul 2026
  1. PR#38 20k 2026-07-15
  2. now 31k + 11k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.

+11 understory score output 100 · clout 89
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#38 2026-07-15 on the radar

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