Orca
Optional. Free and open source; we recommend it.
Many agents side by side, each in its own working copy, across your machines. regatta never needs it: every run can start as a plain Claude Code session, on this machine or another.
At a glance
Without it
No account
- Works: Plan blocks run, here or over ssh
- Works: Scheduled agent jobs
- Not here: Orca's view of the agents at work
- Not here: Workers on a paired machine
- Not here: Recovery from Orca's records after a crash
Free
$0, open source
- Works: Plan blocks run, here or over ssh
- Works: Scheduled agent jobs
- Works: Orca's view of the agents at work
- Works: Workers on a paired machine
- Works: Recovery from Orca's records after a crash
Paid
Enterprise: regatta uses none of it
- Works: Plan blocks run, here or over ssh
- Works: Scheduled agent jobs
- Works: Orca's view of the agents at work
- Works: Workers on a paired machine
- Works: Recovery from Orca's records after a crash
What it brings, by module
wharf-runsorca-host keeps each Mac's Orca matched to your list of projects: the app and its command line, one project group per scope, a separate working copy per task, and the pairing to the Macs and Linux machines it drives.
wharf-runsorca-serve-agent runs Orca as a server that survives a restart, on a Mac or on Linux.
wharfA plan's blocks run as Orca workers, here or on a paired machine. If one crashes, Orca's own records pick it up again. regatta keeps the plan, the gates and the launch: Orca never launches.
wharf-runsEvery scheduled agent job is an Orca automation, and Orca's mailbox is one more way to reach a running session.
plumbUsage is counted for the logins Orca holds too.
Free plan
- All of it. Orca is open source under the MIT licence, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Paid plans
Enterprise no price listed
- Rollout help and deployment inside your network. regatta uses none of it.
As listed on www.onorca.dev/enterprise, read 2026-10-24.
Without it
- Blocks run as Claude Code sessions, on this Mac or on another over ssh.
- Scheduled jobs run on the Mac's own scheduler, launchd.
- A running session is reached through Claude Code's own inbox, ssh or a file.
- What you give up: Orca's view of the agents at work, its workers on a paired machine, and recovery from its records after a crash.
Sources
Prices and limits as each page listed them on 2026-10-24.
- Orca
- Orca Enterprise
- Orca on GitHub
- Not verified: Whether Orca's mobile companion app costs anything: its page does not say.