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.

Orkas is a multi-agent desktop application (macOS, Windows, and Linux from source) that behaves like a small AI team. You tell the Commander agent what you need, and it plans the steps, delegates to specialist agents, and even calls external CLI agents you already have — like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes-Agent — to work together. Everything is designed to keep long-running projects moving: projects hold goals and memory, to‑do lists split work, auto‑advance lets the team pick up the next task on its own, and scheduled automations repeat routine jobs. Your data stays on your own disk by default, and finished tasks come back for your review.

It ships with 16 built‑in specialist agents covering research, content creation, video/voice, office documents, UI design, product development, and e‑commerce. It can also plug into services like Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Stripe. The code is MIT‑licensed and runs any model — the built‑in Orkas model, your own API keys, or a local endpoint.

Some features (shared projects, cloud sync, web‑app publishing) are only in the packaged download, not in the open‑source build.

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