--- title: When to Use Orca’s Threat Investigator Agent vs. Build... description: Orca Security compares its pre-built Threat Investigator agent against building a custom agent on top of the Orca MCP Server. Threat Investigator is a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-to-use-orca-s-threat-investigator-agent-vs-build-your-own-on-the-orca-mcp-server-vig3mwcfc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When to Use Orca’s Threat Investigator Agent vs. Build Your Own on the Orca MCP Server | daily.dev og:description: Orca Security compares its pre-built Threat Investigator agent against building a custom agent on top of the Orca MCP Server. Threat Investigator is a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-to-use-orca-s-threat-investigator-agent-vs-build-your-own-on-the-orca-mcp-server-vig3mwcfc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vIg3mwCFc.png og:image:alt: When to Use Orca’s Threat Investigator Agent vs. Build Your Own on the Orca MCP Server og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # When to Use Orca’s Threat Investigator Agent vs. Build Your Own on the Orca MCP Server **[Orca Security Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/orca-security-blog)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Orca Security compares its pre-built Threat Investigator agent against building a custom agent on top of the Orca MCP Server. Threat Investigator is a multi-agent (Planner, Specialists, Critic, Report Writer) system that triages Orca alerts into Malicious/Suspicious/Benign verdicts with cited evidence, and fits high-volume triage, audit-defensible investigations, and cases where output should live in the Orca Platform. Building a custom agent on the MCP Server fits cases needing non-Orca data, non-Orca triggers, output in other tools (IDE, Slack, ticketing), or org-specific playbooks. The piece argues most mature teams end up running both, since they share the same Unified Data Model, and closes with a demo pitch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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