orca-cli

orca-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stablyai/orca. It costs 159 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing Orca workspaces, worktrees, terminals, code repositories, automations, shared skills, comments, and its built-in browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or inspect worktrees, operate terminals, manage repository context, run automations, share work, add comments, control the embedded browser, or hand off tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps tasks that depend on Orca's own workspace state in one place, including handing work to another coding agent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to create or inspect worktrees, operate terminals, manage repository context, run automations, share work, add comments, control the embedded browser, or hand off tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stablyai/orca/orca-cli
About the project

Orca is an application for running and coordinating multiple coding agents, giving each agent an isolated Git worktree while tracking their work in one place. Developers use it to run agents such as Codex, ClaudeCode, OpenCode, or Pi in parallel across desktop, mobile, local terminals, or remote servers.

stablyai/orca · 94,483 stars · on GitHub · onorca.dev

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add stablyai/orca --skill orca-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stablyai/orca

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 23 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00159 $0.00582
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00233
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00058

Measured 23d ago against content hash aa76f8650501, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orca-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 23d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • orca-cli — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • orca-cli — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • orca-cli — 97% identical, 62 lines differ
skills/orca-cli/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

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_COMMAND environment 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, use orca-dev.
  • Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use orca-ide. Never run bare orca there — 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

Prefer --json. Use the selected executable's --help for commands or flags the guide does not cover. If a command reports that Orca is not running, start it with ORCA open --json and retry. If it fails with runtime_access_denied, your sandbox blocked the connection: re-run it with escalated permissions, and do not run ORCA open or restart Orca. If skills get is unknown, explain that updating Orca restores the guide; use --help for read-only discovery and do not guess unsupported commands.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 23d ago Changed · +2 lines aa76f8650501
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · -4 tokens per session 6522a3355993
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -35 lines · -86 tokens per session b21b9b80475c
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +44 tokens per session 6dcbd69045c7
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A cdd5d9c8a958

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orca-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository stablyai/orca (94,483 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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