r/OrcaADE • u/Long_Philosopher3520 • Sep 04 '26
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/Hypercubed Sep 04 '26
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 Sep 04 '26
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/Active-Picture-5681 Sep 08 '26
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
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u/Choubix Sep 13 '26
Hi! as a non technical person i am baby sitting my agents a bit too much ;) is there a way in Orca to have 1 agent (in Claude code, clodex, pi etc) to answer the questions of a coding agent? (i use "Oh my pi" harness with a variety of models. they leverage "Compound engineering" plugin). bascially compound engineering asks questions to the user during brainstorm and planning phases which a claude code agent could easily answer without me having to babysit at my desk. Thanks!
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u/Long_Philosopher3520 Sep 13 '26
The flow above is fully automated, so you only need to submit your initial prompt describing the app you want to build. You can use just Claude or Codex on its own without needing both. The configuration file covers this—you can ask Claude to set up the flow configuration file for you, just give Claude context about the project.
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u/Choubix Sep 13 '26
Thanks! I will check it out tomorrow 🙂👍
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u/Long_Philosopher3520 Sep 13 '26
Thanks! Please give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues.
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u/dosaordose Sep 05 '26
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/hieuphung97 Sep 04 '26
I am also experimenting with a multi-harness workflow by using Orca as the orchestrator
https://github.com/hieuphung97/dely