Orkas: Local AI Agent Team for Your Desktop — MIT, 7K Stars

Developers have accumulated a small zoo of AI tools — Claude Code in one terminal, a browser tab for research, a writing assistant in another, an image generator somewhere else. Each one does its job in isolation. Orkas, an open-source MIT-licensed desktop app that hit 7,000 GitHub stars this week, proposes a different model: a single Commander coordinates a team of specialist agents, all running locally, all using your own API keys. No orchestration code required. One Commander, Many Workers The core concept in Orkas is a Commander LLM that receives a goal, decomposes it into tasks, and routes work […]

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