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Why it mattersA team already paying for several coding agents can now point one chat at a goal. The right agent picks up the right part. The data stays on the machine.
Running Claude Code in one window, Codex in another and OpenCode in a third is how many developers work today. Each tool keeps its own chat, its own memory and its own view of the project. Orkas is an open-source desktop app that runs them together under one plan. The repository has 2,507 stars and sits at number 2 on Trendshift's daily list.
Orkas was created in April and is written mostly in JavaScript. It is free for macOS and Windows. It also runs from source on Linux. The licence is MIT. The author goes by leochenpm on X.
What it does
The app opens with a "Commander" that reads your goal and breaks it into to-dos. The Commander then hands each to-do to the agent best suited to it. Orkas comes with 16 built-in specialists. The list includes a research agent, a report writer, a slide maker and a UI designer. It also has a video and voice studio, an office-files worker and five e-commerce agents. The Commander can also hand coding work to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. Any CLI agent you already run on the machine fits in the same way. A single chat can fix a bug, review the change and draft the release note across three tools.
A project in Orkas holds the goal, the rules, memory and files. Every new conversation starts from them. You do not brief the agent from scratch each time. An auto-advance switch lets the team pick up the next to-do on its own. Finished work comes back for review. Scheduled automations repeat routine work by the hour, day, week or month.
Local first
Orkas keeps conversations, files and custom agents on the disk by default. When you use your own API keys, model calls go straight from your machine to the provider. The built-in Orkas model goes through Orkas's managed service. Cloud sync and shared projects are only in the packaged app and are optional. The open-source build does not include them.
What it does not promise
The README names its own limits. The source build does not support shared projects, cloud sync or web-app publishing. Native dependency errors are common enough that the project includes a repair script. Linux needs glibc 2.34 or newer, and Alpine is not supported. First launch downloads about 95 MB of embeddings and a whisper.cpp model.
Where this fits
The reader audience is a team that already uses several coding agents and wants one workspace around them. A team already paying for Claude Code and Codex gets a project, a to-do list and a shared plan. The star count and the Trendshift ranking are the only real signals of adoption. A star counter does not show how many stars came from active users.
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