Orkas desktop — Electron + Node one-piece app
How to install orkas?
orkas-ai/orkas
$git clone https://github.com/orkas-ai/orkasInstalls into the current project.
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Install orkas by running `git clone https://github.com/orkas-ai/orkas`, then use it for the current task and follow its documentation at https://github.com/orkas-ai/orkas.
README.md
| 1 | # Orkas |
| 2 | |
| 3 | **An open-source, local-first AI workforce for complex work.** |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Orkas is an open-source, local-first AI workforce. A super-powered **Commander** coordinates specialist agents to complete complex work together. It runs as a desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux; your conversations, files, agent configs, and model keys stay local, and model calls go straight to your provider. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [](./LICENSE) |
| 8 | [](https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas/stargazers) |
| 9 | [](https://orkas.ai?source=github) |
| 10 | [](https://orkas.ai?source=github) |
| 11 | [](https://discord.gg/K8Eyvu7rD) |
| 12 | [](https://x.com/leochenpm) |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [English](./README.md) · [简体中文](./README.zh-CN.md) |
| 15 | |
| 16 |  |
| 17 | |
| 18 | > One super-powered Commander turns your goal into an executable path, does the general work itself, and coordinates specialist agents when the job needs a team. No flowcharts, no orchestration code. Your conversations, files, and API keys never leave your machine. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | --- |
| 21 | |
| 22 | ## What is Orkas? |
| 23 | |
| 24 | - **Open-source, local-first AI workforce** — a desktop GUI where you direct a coordinated workforce of specialist AI agents through one chat. Not a single chatbot, not a code framework, not a hosted SaaS. |
| 25 | - **A super-powered Commander** — the Commander understands context, breaks down goals, chooses the right agents, skills, connectors, and tools, and directly handles general analysis, writing, research, file work, and automation when no specialist is a better fit. |
| 26 | - **Specialist agents that work together** — agents can run in parallel or in sequence, each with focused skills, memory, and task context, so complex work can move across coding, research, data, video, and slides. |
| 27 | - **Open-source ecosystem, locally orchestrated** — plug in external CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cline) and onboard open-source projects like HyperFrames as local tools, all coordinated by the same Commander. |
| 28 | - **Local-first by design** — conversations, files, API keys, knowledge bases, and custom agents all stay on your disk. Model calls go straight from your machine to the provider — never through Orkas servers. |
| 29 | - **Bring your own LLM keys** — plug in Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, or Doubao. Mix providers across agents. No vendor lock-in. |
| 30 | - **Self-evolving workforce** — each agent has its own private skills and memory, and improves through reflection after each task. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | > ⭐ If Orkas is useful to you, a star helps more people find the project. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | --- |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ## What can you build with it? |
| 37 | |
| 38 | - **Automate recurring reports & market research** — a specialist agent gathers, summarizes, and ships a weekly report. |
| 39 | - **Turn a product spec into dev tasks** — the Commander breaks a PRD into tasks and dispatches them across agents. |
| 40 | - **Chat with your documents & run local data analysis** — drop files in, keep the data on your machine. |
| 41 | - **Go beyond code — video, slides, and more** — the Commander drives open-source tools like HyperFrames and hands off to CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cline) and other local agents, so one chat produces code, research, video, and slide decks. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | **Explore use cases →** [research workflows](https://orkas.ai/use/researchers?source=github) · [data analysis](https://orkas.ai/use/data-analysis?source=github) · [chat with documents](https://orkas.ai/use/chat-with-documents?source=github) · [for developers](https://orkas.ai/use/developers?source=github) · [automate your workspace](https://orkas.ai/use/automate-workspace?source=github) |
| 44 | |
| 45 | --- |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ## Download |
| 48 | |
| 49 | - **Get the app** → [orkas. |
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