Orkas-AI/Orkas
Orkas is an open-source (MIT), local-first AI team for your desktop: a Commander turns your goal into to-dos and coordinates 16 built-in specialist agents plus Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Hermes, with projects, scheduled automations and connectors. Free app for macOS & Windows; built-in models or your own keys.
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An open-source team of AI agents on your desktop — it turns your goals into finished work and keeps it moving. Orkas is an open-source (MIT), local-first multi-agent desktop app — an AI assistant that works as a team. Tell the Commander what you need: it finishes many tasks on its own, and for bigger work it plans the steps and brings in specialist agents along with the coding and personal agents you already use — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Hermes-Agent — to work on it together. Orkas is built to keep a project moving, not just answer one prompt. A project holds the goal, rules, memory and files, so every new conversation picks up where the last one left off. To-dos split the work between people and agents, Auto-advance lets the team take on the next to-do by itself, and scheduled automations repeat routine work hourly, daily,…
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- Orkas
- What the team delivers
- Recreate a reference video with your own content
- Keep the work moving
- Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Hermes-Agent together
- Why Orkas
- Download
- What people use it for
- How Orkas compares
- Quick start
- How it works
- Task routing
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What this repository does
Orkas is an open-source (MIT), local-first AI team for your desktop: a Commander turns your goal into to-dos and coordinates 16 built-in specialist agents plus Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Hermes, with projects, scheduled automations and connectors. Free app for macOS & Windows; built-in models or your own keys.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Orkas-AI
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 5,862
- Forks
- 354
- Open issues + pull requests
- 6
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-04-29T12:19:08.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-31T03:36:24.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agent-collaboration, agent-harness, agent-orchestration, agent-team, agent-workflow, ai-assistant, ai-automation, ai-employee, ai-productivity, ai-team, ai-workflow, autonomous-agents, claude-code-gui, claude-cowork, desktop-agent, local-first, multi-agent, multi-agent-system, self-evolving-agents, task-automation
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