If you're working inside an Orca editor worktree, this is how you talk to Orca's control plane instead of running raw git worktree commands or spawning ad hoc shells. You get JSON commands to create worktrees per issue, update the worktree comment at meaningful checkpoints so the UI shows your progress, and read or write to Orca-managed terminals. The boundary that matters: use this for non-agent terminals like build scripts or test runners, but switch to the orchestration skill when the recipient is another AI agent. It keeps worktree state consistent and gives you a single handle for terminal lifecycle, which beats managing PTYs yourself.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add stablyai/orca --skill orca-cli --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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_COMMAND environment 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, use orca-dev.
  • Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use orca-ide. Never run bare orca there — 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-cli

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Repository
github.com/stablyai/orca
Categories
Frontend Development, Testing & QA, Git & Pull Requests, AI & Agent Building, Automation & Workflows, CLI & Terminal
First seen
May 16, 2026

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