HyperTeamsHyperTeams vs Orca
Orca is an open-source agent development environment (ADE) that runs agents like Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode in their own git worktrees, so you can compare and merge them in one app. HyperTeams runs the same agents on your computer, but also takes work in folders that aren't code repositories as cards, and adds the approvals, audit trail and cost attribution you need once colleagues assign work.
Why HyperTeams over Orca
The overlap is wide: both run several agents in parallel on your own subscriptions, both reach your phone, and both run on a schedule. They split in two places. First, Orca is a developer tool built around git repositories and worktrees, so it is tighter for the branch, diff and PR loop. The HyperTeams control room puts work on cards per folder, so non-code work such as reports, documents and data cleanup sits in the same list. Second, when people other than you start assigning work. Orca has no accounts, roles or approvals; HyperTeams Connect adds roles and policy, per-item pre-approval, an audit trail of who approved what, and cost and caps per person and team. HyperTeams neither drives nor replaces Orca, so you can use them side by side.
Non-code work in the same list
A development environment built around projects, worktrees and GitHub or Linear issues. The screen is repository-centric.
Work becomes cards per registered folder. Reports, documents and data cleanup show up with status, answer summaries and result files in one list.
Colleagues can assign work
The public docs have no accounts or roles. Handing work over means handing over the app or the remote server.
Accounts, roles and policy per folder and command decide how far a colleague's job can go on your machine.
Who approved what is kept
Results stay as branches, PRs and automation run history. There is no step where a person allows a run first.
Risky work goes through per-item pre-approval, and an audit trail records who approved what and when.
Cost belongs to a person
It shows usage and rate limits per agent account, but not whose usage it was.
Every job records its cost, Connect attributes it to people and teams, and caps apply per person and team.
HyperTeams vs Orca
- OrcaA desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It can also run on a remote Orca server or in SSH worktrees.
- HyperTeams SystemExecution stays on that machine — the control room sits on top rather than taking it over.
- HyperTeams ConnectIt does not touch execution; it receives what the control room reports.
- OrcaA git worktree per agent, and one prompt fanned out to several agents to compare results.
- HyperTeams SystemOne card per job — hand it five and five run side by side, in five folders.
- HyperTeams ConnectThe control room does this
- OrcaPer-worktree terminals, status, unread markers and diffs in the app.
- HyperTeams SystemStatus, a summary of the answer, and an unread marker, all in one list.
- HyperTeams ConnectThe control room does this
- OrcaScrollback survives restarts, and a phone companion shows status and lets you reply.
- HyperTeams SystemResident, and it records progress: it continues after you close the window, and a tunnel shows it on your phone.
- HyperTeams ConnectThe control room does this
- OrcaCLI automations run on cron or RRULE schedules.
- HyperTeams SystemYou pick a time on screen, and a failure notifies you.
- HyperTeams ConnectThe control room does this
- OrcaPairs with remote Orca servers; schedules from connected hosts show in one table.
- HyperTeams SystemIt stops at that one machine. It does not know what runs on the next one.
- HyperTeams ConnectA control room per machine, all of them in one list — including which machine is awake.
- OrcaA personal workspace. The public docs have no accounts, roles or approvals.
- HyperTeams SystemIt assumes the owner of the machine. The screen is behind one password.
- HyperTeams ConnectAccounts and roles, policy per folder and command, and pre-approval per item.
- OrcaResults live in worktree branches, PRs and automation run history.
- HyperTeams SystemIt keeps that machine's run history. There is no notion of an approval.
- HyperTeams ConnectWho approved what, and when, kept as a policy audit trail.
- OrcaShows usage and rate limits per agent account, but not per person.
- HyperTeams SystemIt shows cost per job on that machine, with no owner attached.
- HyperTeams ConnectAttributed to a person and a team, with ceilings.
- OrcaMIT open source. The tool is free; bring your own agent subscriptions.
- HyperTeams SystemOne command to install, using the Claude or ChatGPT account you already have.
- HyperTeams ConnectOnly the features that cross into a team are metered in credits.
Checked against each product's official documentation as of 2026-09-26. Their products change, and when they do this table becomes wrong — tell us and we will fix it.
Orca docsWhat the control room does, and what Connect does
HyperTeams is two products. Which of them answers each row above is exactly where the boundary sits.
HyperTeams System
Runs the work on your machine
A program you install with one command. It assigns work per folder, runs jobs in parallel, and keeps going after you close the window. While you work alone, this is all you need.
- Where it runs
- Several jobs at once
- How far along it is
- If you close the window
- At a set time
HyperTeams Connect
Makes it something others rely on, unattended
It starts paying the moment there is a second machine and a second person: pooling machines into one list, filtering work others assign through approval, keeping an audit trail of what happened, and splitting cost per person.
- Several machines in one place
- When someone else assigns work
- Retracing it later
- What it cost
When do you move up a rung?
- L1 · Observe
You watch several machines. The moment there is a second one.
- L2 · Share
The team sees what was asked for. The moment you start sharing one password.
- L3 · Delegate
Others assign work and see the results. This is where approval, policy, and audit earn their place.
Running both
You don't remove or migrate what you use today. Here is how to layer HyperTeams on top of it.
- 1
Keep Orca
Don't uninstall it. Keep the create-compare-merge worktree loop in Orca.
- 2
Install the control room with one command
Install it on the same computer and register your working folders. Both use the agent accounts signed in on that computer.
- 3
Split the work
Code you'll sit with and compare goes to Orca; non-code work and jobs from colleagues go to the control room. HyperTeams does not drive Orca.
Which one should you pick?
When to just use Orca
When you fan one prompt out to many agents
Run the same instruction across five agents in five worktrees, compare the results side by side, and merge the winner. HyperTeams does not create worktrees for you.
When you use twenty-plus agents
Beyond Claude Code and Codex, it runs OpenCode, Amp, Pi, Grok and other terminal agents, and switches accounts. HyperTeams drives Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex and Antigravity.
When you want to finish inside the editor
GPU-accelerated terminals with infinite splits, a design mode that sends clicked UI elements to your agent, diff annotations, and GitHub and Linear built in.
When HyperTeams is the answer
When the work isn't code
HyperTeams SystemRegister folders that aren't repositories and hand off reports, cleanup and research as cards, then open the result files directly.
When non-developers need to see it
HyperTeams SystemInstead of terminals and diffs, job cards with status, answer summaries and unread markers sit in one list, with cost per job beside them.
When you bring in colleagues
HyperTeams ConnectThis is where Connect starts: accounts and roles, policy and per-item pre-approval, and an audit trail of who approved what.
When cost needs splitting
HyperTeams ConnectOnce several people share a subscription, cost is tracked per person and team, and caps stop it before it overflows.
A layer, not a replacement
Put it on top of what you already run
One command to install. Nothing you use today gets removed or moved — you only add the command screen above it.
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Common questions
Orca is an MIT-licensed open-source agent development environment (ADE) from Stably AI. It runs coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode in separate git worktrees in one app, with a phone companion, remote Orca servers and scheduled automations. It bundles no models; you bring your own subscriptions.
If your center is the loop of creating worktrees and comparing agents, Orca is tighter and HyperTeams does not replace it. If you want non-code work in the same list, or need approvals, audit and cost attribution when colleagues assign work, HyperTeams is the answer.
Yes. Both drive the Claude Code and Codex accounts signed in on your computer. Usage limits belong to the account, so they share them. HyperTeams shows remaining quota and cost per job on one screen.
Orca automations set a prompt on a cron or RRULE schedule from the CLI and run it in a worktree. In the HyperTeams control room you pick a time on screen, it runs as a job card, and a failure notifies you. Who set the schedule, whether it was approved, and whose cost it was are recorded once Connect is added.
Work is assigned per registered folder. Keep creating worktrees the way you do; HyperTeams records what changed and when. If branch isolation and result comparison are the core, Orca is the better fit.