ORCH — CLI runtime for coordinating AI coding agent teams with state machine

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Turn Claude, Cursor, and Codex into one team.

Built ORCH — an open-source CLI runtime that orchestrates AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Cursor) as a typed engineering team with a formal state machine, auto-retry, and inter-agent messaging.

chatgpt-on-wechat demonstrates the power of connecting AI to real workflows. ORCH extends this pattern to the development layer: instead of a single AI responding to messages, ORCH manages a team of specialized coding agents responding to tasks.

What ORCH provides:

• Formal state machine: todo to in_progress to review to done. No agent completes a task without review
• Auto-retry: retrying state. Failed agents restart automatically within the same task lifecycle
• Inter-agent messaging: orch msg send agt_123 update. Direct agent-to-agent communication
• Shared context store: agents coordinate state without repeated prompting
• TUI dashboard: live terminal UI showing all agent and task statuses in real time

Quick start:
npm install -g @oxgeneral/orch
orch agent list # view preconfigured team
orch task add Fix auth # assign to any agent
orch tui # monitor live

1493 tests, TypeScript strict, MIT. Supports 5 agent adapters: claude, opencode, codex, cursor, shell.

GitHub: https://github.com/oxgeneral/ORCH