orca-cli

orca-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sutchan/Agent-Skills-Hub. It costs 163 tokens per session (549 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of orca-cli, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing Orca worktrees and their related files, terminals, repositories, automations, comments, and embedded browser. A worktree is a separate working folder connected to a Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage worktree folders, terminal sessions, repository contexts, automations, comments, agent handoffs, and the browser inside Orca.
Why use it?
It keeps work in the Orca environment organised and lets developers operate on the correct worktree or runtime context.

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 manage worktree folders, terminal sessions, repository contexts, automations, comments, agent handoffs, and the browser inside Orca.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sutchan/agent-skills-hub/orca-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 549 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.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00163 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash b21b9b80475c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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

This is a copy

94% identical to orca-cli — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/orca-cli/SKILL.md · 47 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 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 · -38 lines · +149 tokens per session b21b9b80475c
  2. 8d ago First seen · 85 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A b382c28b64e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orca-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository sutchan/Agent-Skills-Hub (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session and 549 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to orca-cli, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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