People are calling these ADEs now, Agent Development Environments. One place to run coding agents, each in its own git worktree, instead of a single agent in a single terminal. I have wanted something like this for a while, so I tried a few. I landed on Orca. It is open source, from a company called Stably, and it is a big project now.
What I tried first
The first one I found was Conductor, from Melty Labs. The idea was right, but the interface was buggy and I kept running into problems with it. Then I tried Superset. It does a lot, more than I want, and it felt proprietary in a way I did not like. Orca sits between those two.
The remote part
This is what actually pulled me in. With Claude Code I would lose the connection sometimes, and starting a project remotely from my machine was always a hassle. I do not want to spin up a VM instance every time I need to change something small.
Orca runs the agent on a remote box over SSH, and the terminal I work in is a real one on that machine. File editing, git, the terminal itself. The sessions live on the remote host, so if the connection drops the agent keeps running and I reconnect with the scrollback intact. There is a mobile app too, so I can check what an agent is doing or unstick it from my phone.
How I use it
I run everything through Orca now. Most of the time I keep it to one agent. I like seeing everything that is happening in one place, so I stay with a single agent and only split into two or three when I have to, which is rare.