orca-per-workspace-env

orca-per-workspace-env is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stablyai/orca. It costs 107 tokens per session (492 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for setting up and checking disposable development environments created separately for each workspace, using cloud sandboxes, virtual machines, or a local machine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or repair per-workspace environment recipes in Orca, prepare provider scripts, or investigate environment validation errors.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing or broken environment setup by checking providers, base snapshots, agent sign-in, credentials, saved state, and lifecycle scripts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or repair per-workspace environment recipes in Orca, prepare provider scripts, or investigate environment validation errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stablyai/orca/orca-per-workspace-env
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 · 63,756 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-per-workspace-env
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stablyai/orca

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 492 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 7 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 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 $0.00107 $0.00492
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash d3a23c0d3e87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orca-per-workspace-env 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 2d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/orca-per-workspace-env/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Per-Workspace Environments

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-per-workspace-env

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 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. 2d ago Changed · -37 lines · -9 tokens per session d3a23c0d3e87
  2. 9d ago First seen · 82 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A a7ae9a0d22b8

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orca-per-workspace-env is a skill published in the GitHub repository stablyai/orca (63,756 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 492 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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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