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Orkas
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Turns a goal into finished reports, slide decks, posts and videos with a team of AI agents
About Orkas
Orkas is an open source desktop app for Mac and Windows. A lead agent, the Commander, splits your goal into steps and hands them to specialist agents for research, writing, slides, images and video, then returns files.
For Small business ownersMarketers and creatorsSmall teams
Made by Orkas
An open source project published under the name Orkas on GitHub and under the MIT licence. Its website does not name a company or individual team members.
- Stars
- ★ 5.1k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Usage-based
- Platforms
- Mac · Win
- Level
- Beginner
Screenshots
From the project's own repository · 2 images, swipe or use the arrows.
Overview
Orkas is a desktop app where a lead agent, the Commander, breaks your goal into to-dos and hands the parts to 16 built-in specialist agents for research, writing, slides, images, video and office files. You describe what you need in a chat; it plans the steps, does the work and brings back finished files for you to review. Projects keep goals and files between conversations, and scheduled automations repeat routine work. It suits small businesses, marketers and anyone with recurring office work.
One chat can produce a report, a deck and a video together, and it can also hand parts of the job to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode if you have them.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- Make a one-page comparison of [product A], [product B] and [product C], with the sources you used.First try · uses credits
- Turn this outline into an editable 8-slide deck: [paste outline]uses credits
- Every Monday, write a short summary of last week's sales from [export file].scheduled
- Write three social posts announcing [launch], in the tone of this example: [paste post]uses credits
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
Features
From the creator's documentation.
| Feature | What it does | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Breaks a goal into to-dos and hands each part to the right agent | Your computer |
| Specialist agents | 16 built-in agents for research, writing, slides, images, video, office files and e-commerce | Orkas or your model |
| Projects | Goals, rules, memory and files that each new conversation starts from | Your computer |
| Scheduled automations | Repeat a task hourly, daily, weekly or monthly while Orkas runs | Your computer |
| Connectors | Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Slack, Shopify and more; by default it asks before sending or deleting | Your accounts |
| Other agents | Runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw or Hermes Agent if you have them installed | Your computer |
Good to know
You have a goal that needs several kinds of work, such as researching a market and turning it into a short deck. Orkas plans the steps, assigns them to its specialist agents and returns the files for review.
Limits
- The packaged app asks you to sign in; its 500 starting credits are one-time, and more use needs a paid plan or your own model keys.
- Shared projects, cloud sync and web-app publishing are only in the packaged app, not the open-source build.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: Orkas), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Orkas README · Orkas pricing
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