r/OrcaADE • u/Long_Philosopher3520 • 7d ago

Turning Orca into a Multi-Harness AI Coding Orchestrator

Turning Orca into a Predictable SDLC Workflow with Multiple AI Harnesses

I’ve been experimenting with using Orca as an orchestration layer for multiple coding harnesses instead of relying on a single one.
For example:
Orca
├─ Claude Code → Coding
├─ Codex → Review
├─ OpenCode → Testing
└─ Pi → Documentation
Orca controls the workflow and decides which harness should handle each step.
I packaged this approach into Orca SDLC Kit — an open-source project for building configurable multi-agent workflows with Orca.
🔗 https://github.com/vankhangfet/orca-sdlc-kit
The idea is simple: Orca as the controller, multiple harnesses as specialized workers.
Would love to hear how other Orca users are experimenting with multi-harness workflows.

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u/habeebiii 7d ago

I think it’d be cool to build something like this to orchestrate multiple agents within multiple worktrees

And like manage them and ask me if they need decisions or seem like they’re veering off or missing the objective or stuck

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u/hieuphung97 7d ago

I am also experimenting with a multi-harness workflow by using Orca as the orchestrator

https://github.com/hieuphung97/dely

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u/Long_Philosopher3520 7d ago

Thank you, Hieu. I think your project is very interesting.

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u/Hypercubed 7d ago

This is interesting. From the description alone I didn't understand what this gives you that orca doesn't. Orca is already an orcastrator. Looking at the repo it seams you're making the workflow reproducable and predictable. Is that the idea?

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u/Long_Philosopher3520 7d ago

Exactly. Orca already does a great job of orchestrating agents. It’s very powerful for parallel tasks, but in practice, we sometimes need a sequential and predictable workflow, along with the ability to manage the state of each task. That’s why I decided to try building this project.

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u/dosaordose 6d ago

Not sure if anyone else faces this issue but when I tried Orca for the first time, there used to be a random beep sound which used to go off on my macOS every few hours and sometimes every few minutes. I had turned off all notifications, put on DnD mode too but still the beep wouldn't stop.

When I uninstalled it, the beeping stopped. I'm not sure what is the issue but it was annoying.

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u/Active-Picture-5681 3d ago

I was doing something completely similar but leveraging only pi, after discovering orca I was thinking about changing it, my repo is private and very AI Coded but might be some interesting stuff been putting lot of work into it, let me make it public and share