{"slug": "orca-the-agent-development-environment", "title": "Orca – The Agent Development Environment", "summary": "Orca launched as an open-source agent development environment (ADE) that runs coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok, and Gemini in parallel across isolated workspaces, with a companion mobile app for iOS and Android. The tool is free and open source and is used by engineers at unnamed large companies, according to the company. Orca positions itself as an agent-first alternative to IDEs, combining worktrees, terminals, a browser, and CLI in one app.", "body_md": "Backed by\n\n# Ship 100x with the agent IDE\n\nRun Claude Code, Codex, and any other coding agent in parallel. Get the mobile companion for iOS or Android.\n\nUsed by engineers at\n\n## Your dev loop, agentified.\n\n### Workspaces\n\nQuickly split tasks into isolated environments, so multiple agents can work side by side without interfering with each other.\n\n`auth/withSession.ts`\n## Bring your own agent / subscription\n\nWorks with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok, and any other agent CLI. Plug in the subscriptions you already have and run them side by side in Orca.\n\n- Claude Code\n- Codex\n- Grok\n- Gemini\n- Cursor\n- GitHub Copilot\n- OpenCode\n- Amp\n- OpenClaude\n- Antigravity\n- Pi\n- oh-my-pi\n- Hermes Agent\n- Goose\n- Auggie\n- Charm\n- Cline\n- Codebuff\n- Command Code\n- Continue\n- Droid\n- Kilocode\n- Kimi\n- Kiro\n- Mistral Vibe\n- Qwen Code\n- Rovo Dev\n- Any other CLI agent\n\n### Keep agents moving from your phone.\n\nPair Orca with the companion app to watch live agent status, check usage, switch accounts, and keep terminal work moving when you are away from your desk.\n\n## Agent-first, end to end.\n\nIDEs were built for you. An ADE is built for you and your agents: worktrees, terminals, browser, and CLI in one app.\n\n## Built by engineers\n\nwho ship with agents\n\nOrca is open source and used daily by teams at the largest companies and by the people building the next ones. Every quote below is a public post on X. Click one to read the original.\n\n“I tried almost every parallel ADE. So far loving Orca the most. Native TUI, custom commands, mobile app, usage tracking, design mode built in, GitHub to agent task tracking. Truly feeling the 10x.”\n\nJason Zhou@jasonzhou1993\n\nFounder, SuperDesign and AI Builder Club\n\n“Orca on my Mac mini at home, running whatever harness the task needs, in reach from anywhere. It manages the worktrees, so parallel agents ship on the same repo without stepping on each other. I keep testing alternatives and none has replaced it.”\n\nMachina@EXM7777\n\nRuns AI-powered agencies\n\n“Of all the “manage many agents” tools I’ve tried, Orca is definitely the best.”\n\nerik.eth@programmer\n\nPreviously Head of Engineering, Coinbase and Zora\n\n“I got a new project idea. So what did I do? Started Orca and Claude building it, then went out shopping. Exciting to get the notification on my phone.”\n\nEddie Jaoude@eddiejaoude\n\nDeveloper Advocate, PayPal\n\n“A feature I love in Orca is adding a top-level folder containing multiple repos, then chatting in that parent folder. Instead of jumping between three agent sessions, I have one, and the agent works across them all.”\n\nTrevin Chow@trevin\n\nProduct leader, Compound Engineering\n\n“Now that all my machines are running coding servers and connected to the Orca mobile app, I have my dream workflow. It feels like being in a wood shop and making my own tools.”\n\nDave Fano@davidfano\n\nFounder, Teal\n\n“Orca tracks CLI agents’ worktrees, tasks, and completion. One clear goal per worker. Reviewers read only; writers get worktrees. Run in parallel, wait for worker_done. One owner integrates and tests.”\n\nVox@Voxyz_ai\n\nBuilding Voxyz\n\n“I’m starting to move my development workspaces to the cloud. Orca makes it so easy to connect my VPS with my MacBook, PC, and iPhone.”\n\nDuy Nguyen@goon_nguyen\n\nOpen-source maintainer\n\n## Built for agents,\n\nnot retrofitted\n\nEditors were built for one person typing. Agent wrappers stop at a terminal. Orca is the whole environment: worktrees, review, browser, and remote, in one app.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\n## Get Orca\n\nFree and open source. New features shipped daily.\n\nGet work done dramatically faster than in any IDE.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/orca-the-agent-development-environment", "canonical_source": "https://www.onorca.dev", "published_at": "2026-09-11 18:59:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 19:22:10.206562+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Orca", "Claude Code", "Codex", "OpenCode", "Grok", "Gemini", "GitHub Copilot", "Cursor"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/orca-the-agent-development-environment", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/orca-the-agent-development-environment.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/orca-the-agent-development-environment.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/orca-the-agent-development-environment.jsonld"}}