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Skills

Skills are reusable operating procedures stored in skills/*/SKILL.md. They define trigger rules, inputs, workflow, outputs, quality bar, common failure modes, and relationships to other ORCA Framework skills.

Linear Skills

  • orca-linear-setup
  • orca-linear-core
  • orca-linear-triage
  • orca-linear-planner
  • orca-linear-executor
  • orca-linear-qa
  • orca-linear-release

These skills coordinate issue-native work in Linear. If the user opts out of Linear, use the same behaviors against the chosen system of record.

Core Skill Groups

  • Core governance: orca-core
  • Intake and discovery: orca-onboard, orca-discover, orca-legacy, orca-research, orca-controller-mode, orca-business-ideation, orca-model-council, orca-council-product-idea, orca-council-feature-evaluation, orca-council-market-opportunity, orca-attribution, orca-background-mode, orca-docs-system, orca-integrations, orca-integration-recommendation, orca-graph-vault-support, orca-corpus-support, orca-adaptive-guidance, orca-agent-orchestration
  • Wrapped upstream packs: orca-impeccable, orca-superpowers
  • Install and setup: orca-install-help
  • Updates and release safety: orca-auto-update
  • Delivery: orca-spec, orca-plan, orca-goal-mode, orca-build
  • Reliability: orca-observability, orca-eval, orca-approval-gate, orca-benchmark, orca-accounting, orca-portability, orca-regression-task, orca-shared-state, orca-checkpoint, orca-tool-governance, orca-tool-setup, orca-runtime-adaptation, orca-receipts, orca-next-step, orca-delegation, orca-ci, orca-pr-feedback, orca-context
  • Platform release packs: orca-testflight-release, orca-testflight-ops
  • Web deploy packs: orca-vercel-deploy
  • Gates: orca-review, orca-design, orca-security, orca-ship
  • QA: orca-blind-qa, orca-context-brief, orca-ios-sim-qa, orca-web-qa, orca-ui-debug, orca-screenshot
  • Learning: orca-retro, orca-session-improvement, orca-friction-policy
  • Self-improvement: orca-self-improvement

Skill Installation

Skills can be installed into agent clients that support skill directories, or read directly by agents using repo mode. Linear guidance can be installed separately into workspace, team, or project instructions.

Reliability skills should be treated as cross-cutting helpers:

  • orca-observability for traces
  • orca-eval for trajectory scoring
  • orca-approval-gate for risky-action control
  • orca-benchmark for onboarding/spec comparisons
  • orca-accounting for workflow timing and retry signals
  • orca-business-ideation for idea framing, venture-style evaluation, opportunity memos, and validation planning
  • orca-model-council for five-subagent deliberation with anonymized peer review and a final chair synthesis
  • orca-council-product-idea for stronger product and startup idea generation
  • orca-council-feature-evaluation for deciding whether a feature deserves roadmap or spec work
  • orca-council-market-opportunity for buyer, wedge, and market-attractiveness judgment
  • orca-background-mode for bounded unattended progress with explicit loop guards, permissions handling, and final states
  • orca-docs-system for docs routing, start-here guidance, wiki maintenance, and stale-doc refresh planning
  • orca-attribution for upstream credit, provenance classification, wrapper clarity, and notice maintenance
  • orca-portability for schema definition, validation, versioning, and artifact mapping
  • orca-controller-mode for repository-first orientation, routing, and multi-harness coherence
  • orca-regression-task for preserving high-value findings as regression work
  • orca-shared-state for current multi-role coordination
  • orca-checkpoint for explicit pause, inspect, approve, reject, and resume flows
  • orca-tool-governance for external tool and MCP server trust decisions
  • orca-tool-setup for harness-aware GitHub, Linear, connector, MCP, CLI, and fallback setup
  • orca-runtime-adaptation for capability-based routing, policy switches, and safe degraded behavior by harness
  • orca-receipts for compact execution summaries that support review, replay, and restore decisions
  • orca-legacy for repo archaeology, business logic extraction, and staged modernization planning
  • orca-goal-mode for converting bounded specs or milestones into durable goal contracts
  • orca-next-step for concise, adaptive phase-exit guidance
  • orca-delegation for bounded controller-to-executor briefs and structured returns
  • orca-ship for final release readiness and explicit uploaded or deployed evidence, not just local success
  • orca-ci for bounded CI triage with actionable failure extraction before code changes
  • orca-pr-feedback for converting review comments and threads into a numbered remediation queue
  • orca-context for ambiguity resolution when the user is referring to a recent or visible artifact without naming it directly
  • orca-testflight-release for Control Studios Apple archive, export, upload, and release-state evidence work
  • orca-testflight-ops for TestFlight metadata, tester groups, invitations, and public-link operations
  • orca-vercel-deploy for preview-first Vercel deploys and fallback claimable deploy links
  • orca-session-improvement for turning real session friction and quality-signal evidence into deduplicated, human-approved framework backlog work
  • orca-integrations for routing modern startup stacks across web, mobile, auth, payments, analytics, automation, and business systems
  • orca-integration-recommendation for restrained, best-fit stack recommendations and respectful setup-only support for user-chosen tools
  • orca-graph-vault-support for low-friction vault inspection and optional graph analysis only when it materially improves understanding
  • orca-corpus-support for explicit global and project corpus rules, separate reference and write-back permissions, and fail-closed path handling
  • orca-friction-policy for deciding whether a feature, integration, or workflow surface reduces more friction than it creates
  • orca-adaptive-guidance for lightweight skill-sensitive coaching, opt-out learning help, and non-condescending prompt or context hints
  • orca-agent-orchestration for deciding when to delegate, which pattern fits, and how to keep parent and worker boundaries clean
  • orca-ui-debug for persistent iterative UI debugging where one-pass QA is too weak
  • orca-screenshot for OS-level and app-level screenshot evidence when tool-specific capture is not enough
  • orca-install-help for step-by-step install guidance, validation, plugin routing, harness setup help, and failure recovery
  • orca-auto-update for channel-aware update checks, verification, compatibility gating, staged rollout decisions, and rollback readiness
  • orca-self-improvement for separating local adaptation from framework evolution and requiring evidence before promotion
  • orca-impeccable for routing ORCA design work into the maintained Impeccable skill pack with explicit wrapper boundaries
  • orca-superpowers for routing ORCA build and plan work into the maintained Superpowers workflow when that pack is the strongest fit