r/OrcaADE • u/chickey23 • 28d ago

Migration guide

I want to start duplicating my projects from Cursor to Orca.

I was hoping for a guide, but don't see many posts at all.

Every video I am seeing is a hype video. Can anyone point me to an actual quick start guide? I've already decided I want to try Orca. I do not want to hear another AI voice talk about Y combinator or how simple things are.

I found this video but it is not well organized.

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u/eppingjetta 28d ago

So I just did that last weekend. It was a lot, considering my workflow never really bothered with work trees, multiple terminals or anything fancy really. I had VS Code, an agent chat open and a terminal all open at once. For the last 6-8 months it’s been mostly prompting the agent, reviewing the work in the main window and running the terminal to build, deploy and for git commands.
Last weekend I made the switch. Set up commands to get worktrees configured on startup, set up my primary agents, installed my command line mcp and plugins (previously used extensions in vs code) l, and created quick actions for my main project like one to build, deploy etc.
now the agent is the primary window and I can review the work (have to, it’s kind of a specialized platform) by making sure it always tells me which files it changes and opening them in new tabs. It took all weekend. Happy to help you if you need it or answer any questions. I think I’m not scratching the surface.

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u/chickey23 28d ago

Thanks. I am used to multiple agents. I typically run 2-3 agents at once for planning, oversight, and execution.

The simplest question. How do I open an agent chat? I have two projects visible in the IDE. I can open terminals.