Orca: run a fleet of coding agents side by side
In today's Spotlight · Picked by 2 of 5 modelsSends one instruction to many coding assistants at once, shows results side by side, and merges the best.Like asking five contractors to renovate the same room, then picking the best job.
Stably AI's open-source desktop orchestrator fans one prompt across 5-30 CLI coding agents, each in its own git worktree, and lets a developer compare the results and merge the winner.
Why it matters
Turns solo coding agents into a fleet: one prompt, many agents, isolated worktrees, side-by-side diffs, on the subscriptions a developer already pays for.
What you could build with it
A solo developer could fan a feature request across five agents in Orca, compare the five implementations side by side, and merge the best one in an afternoon.
Does it hold up?
Shipping and actively developed: v1.4.250 landed Nov 5, with Homebrew and desktop installers. The catch is every agent still bills the developer's own subscription.
Built with Orca
- One Prompt, Five Coding Agents, Merge the Winnerblog.aivaded.com · Walkthrough of the worktree model, 30+ supported CLI agents, and the bring-your-own-subscription economics.
- Orca: run a fleet of AI coding agents side by sidedigisoulhub.com · Hands-on overview: 97,863 stars by Oct 19, MIT licensed, three days on GitHub Trending.
- Orca ADE: Run Claude Code, Codex and Other AI Coding Agents in Parallel on Windowswindowsforum.com · Windows-focused coverage of the fleet console, account switching, and usage tracking.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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