Manage Orca worktrees, separate working directories, along with terminals, repositories, and its embedded browser through the CLI. Use it to hand work to another agent, manage artifacts, run automations, and share skills within Orca.
Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded browser through the `orca` CLI. Use when the user says "$orca-cli", "Orca worktree", "child worktree", "spawn codex/claude in a worktree", "read/wait/send Orca terminal", "handoff" / "handover" / "give this to another agent", "Orca browser", "orca artifacts", or "share skills". Prefer it over raw git worktree, ad hoc PTYs, or Computer Use when Orca state is involved. Use Computer Use only when a visible window needs GUI control that a CLI, filesystem, or API cannot do.
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
This discovery stub loads the version-matched guide from the Orca executable used for this session.
Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:
ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this
for managed WSL sessions.ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, use orca-dev.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.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.
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.
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Control visible local apps and external browser windows through Orca, including clicks, typing, menus, dialogs, and screenshots. Use it for tasks that require interacting with a screen and cannot be completed through commands or APIs.
Read and update Jira tickets through connections saved in Orca. Use it to check the details of work requested through Jira and make ticket updates, selecting a specific site when multiple Jira sites match.
Manage Linear issues through Orca’s command-line interface. Find tickets, move them through workflow states, create follow-up tickets linked to a parent, and record completion with a PR/MR link and a comment.
Create HTML visuals that appear directly inside an Orca chat reply. Use charts, diagrams, tables, reports, or mockups to explain an answer visually, with styles, scripts, and data included in each page.
Control a running iOS Simulator on macOS from Orca’s live device pane. Perform taps, gestures, typing, button presses, and rotation, and inspect the interface element hierarchy to check app changes in the simulator.
Control an Android phone or emulator through Orca using adb, the Android device connection tool. View the device live, perform touch and keyboard actions, install and launch apps, inspect interface structure, and read logs.