
Orca Cli
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-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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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-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