Orcha Documentation

Everything you need to know about running your coding agents with Orcha.

What is Orcha?

Orcha is a native macOS app that lets you control all your coding sessions from one chat window. The home screen is a conversation: ask what's running and get a real answer, dispatch work into any project, and get the report back — while each project runs as a chat session or a real embedded terminal, whichever you prefer.

Orcha is a $99 one-time purchase— no subscription, no recurring fees. Buy once and own it forever.

Orcha does notreplace Claude Code — it runs on top of the CLI you already use and the Claude subscription you already pay for. No API keys, ever.

New to Claude Code? Start with Anthropic's official Claude Code quickstart — Orcha is built for people who already run Claude Code in the terminal.

Key Features

  • The Orcha Chat — A persistent conversation that sees every session, answers “what's running?” with evidence, dispatches agents, and steers them mid-flight.
  • Chat Sessions — Every project tab can be a Claude-Desktop-style chat over your own claude CLI — streaming, attachments, tool cards, and a permission-mode toggle.
  • Needs You — Know the moment a session is waiting on you, via Claude Code's native hooks.
  • Workspaces & Terminals — Real PTY-backed terminals (SwiftTerm) too, organized into workspaces with project tabs. Switch with ⌘1–9.
  • The Library — Your sessions, backlog, automations, and integrations in one place.
  • Automations — Put agents on a schedule by talking to the chat — no forms, no cron syntax.
  • Integrations — Connect MCP servers (GitHub, Linear, Notion, Stripe, and more) from a curated catalog.
  • Context Hub — Compose context from session summaries, memory, and files, then start a session with it preloaded.
  • Voice Dictation — Hold ⌥Space to dictate a prompt using on-device speech recognition.

Quick Start

  1. Get Orcha from the download page
  2. Drag Orcha.app to your Applications folder
  3. Launch Orcha — it auto-discovers your Claude Code projects
  4. Ask the chat “what's running?” — or open a project and start a chat or terminal session

For detailed setup instructions, see Getting Started.

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