Agent Skill
Orca Per Workspace Env skill
orca-per-workspace-envstablyai/orcaskills/orca-per-workspace-env/SKILL.md
Set up, review, debug, or validate an Orca per-workspace environment recipe: the on-demand, disposable runtime (cloud sandbox, VM, SSH host, or local container) Orca creates fresh for each workspace. Use to stand up a new recipe end to end, fix an `environmentRecipes` entry in `orca.yaml`, scaffold provider lifecycle scripts, or resolve an `orca vm recipe doctor` failure. Use `orca-cli` for ordinary worktree and workspace creation with no recipe involved.
always on
107 tokname + description
once used
406 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
0
repo stars
102kGitHub
Install the Orca Per Workspace Env skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/stablyai/orca --skill orca-per-workspace-env
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stablyai/orca.git /tmp/orca mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/orca/skills/orca-per-workspace-env ~/.claude/skills/orca-per-workspace-env
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 107 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 406 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, orca-per-workspace-env costs about 13× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 11 skills from stablyai/orca would load 1,010 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Per-Workspace Environments
- Resolve the CLI for this session
- Load the version-matched guide before running Orca commands
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