Working inside Orca

Inside Orca, drive the IDE through the orca CLI: its built-in browser, its terminals and its tabs. Launch a headless or external browser only when the user explicitly asks for one.

Resolve the CLI once

Use the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND env var if set, else orca-dev in a dev checkout, else orca-ide on Linux outside Orca terminals, else orca. The references write orca for whichever command you resolved.

Before using unfamiliar subcommands, call the Skill tool with "orca-cli", or print the version-matched guide with orca skills get orca-cli. If "orca-cli" isn't installed, ask the user to run npx skills add stablyai/orca --skill orca-cli, then continue.

Branches

• Browser verification: proving a web UI change works, by snapshot, computed styles and screenshots in Orca's built-in browser.
• Parallel ticket handoff: another agent tab is open in the same worktree and the user wants two tickets run in parallel.