Orkas

What is Orkas?

Orkas is an AI Coding Assistant tool. Open-source AI desktop app for managing coding CLIs and sub-agents. Orkas is free to use. It is available on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is aimed at developers and ai researchers.

Orkas is an open-source, local-first AI desktop app that directs specialist sub-agents and runs installed coding CLIs like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes as local sessions. It enables agents to self-evolve through reflection and skill crystallization.

Built for developers and ai researchers.

Key capabilities

• Agents
• Automation
• Chat
• Coding
• Summarization

Features

• Agent Coordination

  Coordinates specialist agents in parallel or sequence with private skills and memory.

• Local Execution

  Runs coding CLIs as local sessions without relying on cloud services.

• Self-Evolution

  Agents self-evolve via reflection and skill crystallization.

• Hybrid Memory

  Uses hybrid retrieval over a local index for memory management.

• Runaway Guards

  Four independent safeguards to prevent uncontrolled agent behavior.

Use cases

• Coordinate specialist agents for complex coding tasks
• Run coding CLIs as local sessions for privacy
• Enable self-evolving agents for continuous improvement
• Manage agent behavior with runaway guards

Pros & cons

Pricing

Free.

Developer & API

FAQ