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Orchbee

In early development · Not released yet

You clock out.Your agents don’t.

Orchbee is a modern terminal built for AI agents. Close the window and come back later: the Session keeps running in the background with every shell and agent in it, and the sidebar shows which agent needs you.

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Windows 11 · Source build for contributors

The Orchbee terminal interface: a sidebar of Workspaces and agents, a shell, and two agents running in split Panels

01Terminal

A real terminal underneath.Built on Ghostty’s core.

Orchbee is a complete terminal first, and everything else is built around it: the Sessions, the agents and the sidebar.

A native terminal process

Terminal emulation runs in a lightweight native process built on the core of Ghostty.

Finished screens

The terminal interface and the desktop application receive the finished screen from that process and only draw it.

GPU rendering

The desktop application renders with WebGPU and falls back to Canvas 2D.

02Multiplexing

One Session.Three ways in.

A conventional terminal session ends when its window closes. An Orchbee Session keeps running in the background, and the terminal interface, the desktop application and the command line attach to it at the same time. Type in one, and the others see it.

The terminal interface and the desktop application attached to the same Session; a command typed in one appears in the other
Terminal interface and desktop application, one Session

03Orchestrate

Every action is a command.Agents can run agents.

Everything you can do in Orchbee, an agent can do through the orchbee command line. One agent can start another, hand it a task, wait for it and read back the answer. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi and other CLI agents run unchanged.

An agent started, prompted, awaited, and read with orchbee commands from a shell Panel
A shell Panel driving an agent with orchbee commands

Each step is one command

orchbee agent start codex --split right

orchbee agent list

orchbee agent prompt @panel:0x36 "Review the current changes"

orchbee agent wait @panel:0x36 --until idle --timeout 120000

orchbee agent read @panel:0x36 --source recent --lines 40

orchbee agent list prints the handle of each agent.

In developmentRemote machines: add other computers over SSH, and agents use them without changing how they work. Planned for the first release.

04Agents

Run a swarm.See who needs you.

Orchbee recognizes more than 30 agent CLIs without any setup and shows the state of each one. The sidebar lists every agent across all projects, organized by project, Workspace and Git worktree.

The Orchbee desktop application: the sidebar lists agents by project and Workspace with their states
Desktop application
  • Working
  • Needs attention
  • Done

Among the agent CLIs it recognizes

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Gemini CLI
  • OpenCode
  • Pi
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • Qwen Code
  • Kimi
  • Amp
  • Grok
  • Droid
  • Cline

05Install

Not released yet.Build it from source.

Orchbee is in active early development. Pre-built applications are not available yet; the source checkout is currently intended for contributors.

Prerequisites: Windows 11, Git, Node.js 22 or later, Corepack, Rust 1.97.0 through rustup, Zig 0.16.0

Every build step is in the README

PowerShell

# get the source

git clone https://github.com/i-need-token/orchbee.git

cd orchbee

corepack enable

pnpm install

# start the desktop application

pnpm desktop

Clock out.They’ve got this.

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