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Learn Orca in 5 minutes.
Orca is a development environment built for running several coding agents at once: each agent works in its own workspace, and you watch, steer, and merge from one place. Your five minutes go to launching two agents on separate tasks and keeping them straight.
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One agent is easy. Five is the problem.
The moment you run more than one coding agent, the hard part stops being the prompt and becomes the bookkeeping: which branch, which task, which one is waiting on you. Orca is that bookkeeping.
One task, one isolated copy
Every agent gets its own checkout of the repo, so two agents never edit the same file at the same time. You can spin up a workspace for a bug and another for a feature and forget about collisions.
Everyone on one screen
A single view shows each agent, what it is doing, and whether it needs an answer from you. Blocked agents surface; idle ones do not distract.
Land the good ones
When an agent finishes, you review its diff and merge, or send it back with a note. The unit of work is a finished branch, not a chat transcript.
What you will do in the lesson
You answer and try things. Nobody demonstrates at you for five minutes.
- Start two agents. You give one a bug and one a small feature, in separate workspaces, and watch them begin independently.
- Read the fleet view. You tell at a glance which agent is working, which is blocked on a question, and which is done.
- Unblock one. You answer an agent's question with the missing detail and see it resume without restarting.
- Review a finished branch. You read the diff the way you would a colleague's pull request and decide: merge, or send back.
- Decide what to parallelise. You sort a realistic backlog into tasks that can run side by side and tasks that must wait for each other.
Before you start
Do I need coding agents installed already?
Orca is the environment around agents like Claude Code and Codex, so it assumes you have at least one. This lesson runs in the frame above and needs nothing installed.
Is this different from just opening several terminals?
Terminals do not isolate the repo, track which agent is blocked, or give you one review queue. Orca does all three, which is what breaks first past two agents.
What happens when two agents touch the same file?
They cannot, in the sense that each works on its own copy. Conflicts surface at merge time, where you resolve them once, on purpose.
Is Orca free?
There is a way to try it without paying, and the agents inside it bill through their own providers. Check onorca.dev for the current plans.
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