Orca ADE: New FREE AI Coding Agent!

Julian Goldie (0:00)

Today, we're going to be looking at Orca ADE, which is a powerful way to run parallel agents, and you can run like any AI coding agent. It's also available on desktop mobile, and it's a free app that you can use to run all of your agents in multiple terminals, as you can see right here. I'll show you exactly how to set up and use it. And if you're wondering why we're covering Orca, basically, Kayo from the AI Profit Board actually posted about this and asked for some help with feedback and recommendations. So we're going to get straight into using it and setting up some cool systems around it, just to help him. And if you want me to create a personalized video tutorial for you, like you can see today, feel free to join the AI Profit Boarding, link in the comments description, or just go to the AI Profit boarding.com. Let's get straight into using Orca. So what you can see here is the full system. If you're wondering how to set up, you can literally just go into your terminal like you can see here and copy this. If you don't know how to use terminal, if you're on Mac, you can just use the spot light and then type in terminal like so.

Then once you've done that, you're going to type in the commands, the GitHub, which you can see here and just hit enter. And then once you've done that, you can just type in Orca open. Orca open.

And then once you've done that, you will see a setup page like you see here.

Now, you can switch between all these different models and agents, as you can see, as you automatically detects the AI agents that you want to use, and you can also switch the permissions down here. So you can set up to skip the permissions and ask for approval each time or not. You might be deciding whether to do that because, for example, it's quite annoying just telling it to approve everything as you go along, whereas I prefer to set up like this. But if you're not familiar with AI agents, or this is one of the first times you're using AI agents, I would just uncheck this, just to be safe. And then once you're comfortable, you can set up more. Now, you can all see here it's recognized our Hermes agent setup, and it can choose which is our default. So I'm going to go with Claude because Claude is a pretty cool agent to use. We can switch these things over here so we can change what it looks like, and then we're going to continue and we can allow notifications. And I like to avoid notifications on pretty much everything I use just to avoid stuff. Now, you can see here that we can add a project. Now, this is pretty cool because, for example, we can plug in a GitHub repository like this, or we can browse a folder and plug something new in. So if you already have a local folder, where you're working on a project, maybe a Vibe code and something else, then you can go with this, or you can pull in an existing GitHub project, or you can create a new one. Now, you can also switch between different remote hosts. So for example, you can add a VPS over here, but I'm just going to stick with local, and then I'm going to create a new project like so. So let's say, for example, Habit Tracker app, similar. Just super basic example. Or Fitness Tracker example, right? Fitness Tracker app, like that. So I'm going to create the project now, and that's going to start building over here. Now, we can also split the terminal, which I'll show you in a second. So what this means, essentially, is you can have multiple different terminals working together side by side when we're building our, anything that we vibe code in, right? So for example, we can have two agents at the same time working on different projects, or the same project, and making it better. Now, you might say, why would you do that?

Well, number one, it's far easier than just opening up the terminal here, and then you've got two different tabs, and that's super messy. And also, it's much easier to see two tabs side by side like this. You could, for example, have two windows like that, and then another one over here.

But like it's not lined up, it's not all lined, it's not neat and tidy. So that's why you want to use something like this. Now, having said that, what I recommend is a system like this. For me personally, when I built out the Agent OS, that works better for me than anything else I've tested. So for me personally, I still prefer to use the Agent OS, and you can actually plug in Orca into your Agent OS system if you prefer.