I tested Orca, a new Agent Development Environment that tries to combine AI terminal agents, code editing, Git worktrees, browser previews, mobile control, and multi-agent orchestration into one workflow.

In this video, I’ll show how Orca works, how it manages isolated Git worktrees for AI coding agents, how the GitOps and review workflow works, and whether this can actually replace my current mix of terminal sessions, code editor tabs, browser windows, and manual branch management.

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References
Orca: https://www.onorca.dev
Orca GitHub: https://github.com/stablyai/orca
Orca Docs: https://www.onorca.dev/docs
My Pi Agent video: https://youtu.be/04EL2_Llenc

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:51 What is Orca?
03:16 First look
05:54 Configuration
07:48 Add your projects
11:40 Run Agents
16:53 Quick Commands
17:25 Browser Tab and Annotations
20:13 Mobile Companion
21:51 Source Controls
22:35 Orchestration
25:05 Final thoughts

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Christian Lempa

Orca (orca.dev) is an Agent Development Environment (ADE) that wraps terminal-based AI coding agents like Pyi, Claude Code, Codex, and others into a unified workspace. Key features include isolated Git work trees for parallel agent sessions, a built-in browser with UI element annotation for sending context directly to agents, multi-agent orchestration where agents can spawn and communicate with sub-agents, a mobile companion app for remote monitoring, SSH support for remote servers, and integrated Git/source control. The walkthrough demonstrates building a SvelteKit home lab management app from scratch using orchestrated agents, showing the browser annotation tool, quick commands, and GitOps workflow. The mobile companion is noted as occasionally buggy. Orca is positioned not just for software developers but also for IT/ops workflows.

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