# Orca

> Parallel coding-agent ADE with worktrees, mobile control, and design mode

**Category:** AI Agents  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://onorca.dev  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/stablyai/orca  
**Added:** 2026-09-20

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## The Hook

Orca is the parallel coding-agent application development environment: worktrees, mobile control, and design mode around the agent CLIs you already use.

## What's Good

MIT (stablyai/orca). It gives a coding team an ADE surface for parallel tasks, isolated worktrees, mobile oversight, and design-mode planning while letting you bring the agent CLIs and model accounts that already fit your workflow. The useful wedge is operating several coding runs, not inventing another model.

## The Catch

Vs AgentBox and Octop: Orca is an operator-facing coding-agent ADE with worktrees and design/mobile surfaces, not a generic sandbox/VM launcher or a self-hosted multi-user agent platform. BYO agent CLIs, credentials, model spend, and the operational discipline to reconcile parallel worktrees.

## Verdict

MIT parallel coding-agent ADE. Use for worktree-centered agent operation; bring the CLIs, keys, and merge discipline.