orca-cli
Skill30 starsChanged 8 days agoMITView on GitHub
Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded browser through the `orca` CLI. Use when the user says "$orca-cli", "Orca worktree", "child worktree", "spawn codex/claude in a worktree", "read/wait/send Orca terminal", "handoff" / "handover" / "give this to another agent", "Orca browser", "orca artifacts", or "share skills". Prefer it over raw git worktree, ad hoc PTYs, or Computer Use when Orca state is involved. Use Computer Use only when a visible window needs GUI control that a CLI, filesystem, or API cannot do.
8 other projects use a version of this, 7 of them edited.
Adopted by
Most recently taken up by
- jgeofil/agent-skillsedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- delorenj/skillsedited, first seen Nov 7, 2026
- webdevarif/claude-skillsword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- treeman99/skillsedited, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- iberi22/skillsedited, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- wisky3107/agentsedited, first seen Oct 5, 2026
Other versions8 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 1
- webdevarif/claude-skills★ 0100% same
Edited · 7
- stablyai/orca★ 119k97% same
- delorenj/skills★ 1733% same
- HK-hub/AgentSkills★ 633% same
- treeman99/skills★ 127% same
- iberi22/skills★ 093% same
- jgeofil/agent-skills★ 097% same
- wisky3107/agents★ 034% same
Wrote their own version · 0
None found.
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository10 other files it gives its agents.
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- ponytail-debtSkill
- ponytail-gainSkill
- ponytail-helpSkill
- ponytail-reviewSkill
- ponytailSkill
- skill-creatorSkill
- typesafe-aiSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 1 is common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
1
Common
Most of the 7 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 21
If the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value.
- Common: line 33
If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop.
- Very specific: line 42
Prefer --json. Use the selected executable's --help for commands or flags the guide does not cover.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 7 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Orca CLI
This discovery stub loads the version-matched guide from the Orca executable used for this session.
Resolve the CLI for this session
Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:
- If the
ORCA_CLI_COMMANDenvironment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this for managed WSL sessions. - Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes
ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, useorca-dev. - Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use
orca-ide. Never run bareorcathere — outside Orca's terminals it normally resolves to the GNOME Orca screen reader (/usr/bin/orca) and starts speech on the user's machine. - Otherwise, use
orca.
Below, ORCA is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before
running anything; do not create a shell variable or run ORCA literally. This works the
same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.
If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different Orca build.
Load the version-matched guide before running Orca commands
ORCA skills get orca-cliPrefer --json. Use the selected executable's --help for commands or flags the guide does
not cover. If a command reports that Orca is not running, start it with ORCA open --json
and retry. If it fails with runtime_access_denied, your sandbox blocked the connection:
re-run it with escalated permissions, and do not run ORCA open or restart Orca. If
skills get is unknown, explain that updating Orca restores the guide; use --help for
read-only discovery and do not guess unsupported commands.
Does it work?
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Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.