ORCH — CLI orchestrator for AI agent teams (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)

[oxgeneral]

Hey Semantic Kernel community! 👋

I built ORCH — an open-source CLI orchestrator that coordinates teams of AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode) from the terminal.

Quick demo

npm install -g @oxgeneral/orch

# Register AI agents as named workers
orch agent add "architect" --adapter claude --model claude-opus-4-6
orch agent add "coder" --adapter codex

# Queue tasks with priorities and scopes  
orch task add "Design the auth module" -p 1 --assignee architect
orch task add "Implement auth" -p 2 --assignee coder --scope "src/auth/**"

# Watch everything live
orch tui

How it works

ORCH manages the coordination layer that individual AI agents cannot handle themselves:

• State machine — tasks flow todo → in_progress → review → done with auto-retry on failure
• Scope locking — prevents agents from editing the same files simultaneously
• Inter-agent messaging — context flows between agents without human copy-paste
• Goal tracking — decompose high-level goals into agent tasks automatically
• TUI dashboard — real-time view of all agents, tasks, and runs

Why it might interest SK users

Semantic Kernel excels at defining AI pipelines in code. ORCH is a CLI-first complement for developers who want to orchestrate CLI-based AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) without writing orchestration code — just task definitions in a terminal.

1,657 passing tests · TypeScript strict · MIT · https://github.com/oxgeneral/ORCH

Happy to answer questions or discuss integration ideas! 🚀