Orca 101

Short, interactive guides to Orca Agent Engine. Start with how the runtime works, then build an agent and connect an application to it.

Start with How Orca works

Understand the runtime

01 · 6 min

How Orca works

What a runtime adds to the harness you already use, where each piece runs, and the path one message takes through it.

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02 · 6 min

The resource model

The resources you declare, what a session pins and mounts, and why an agent is a definition while a session is a run.

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Build on it

03 · 7 min

Build your first agent

Five calls from an empty Workspace to an agent that answers, with the code in the CLI, TypeScript or Python.

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04 · 6 min

Connect your application

How an application talks to a running agent: append events, read the stream, approve a tool call and pick up where it left off.

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