Show HN: Orla, use lightweight, local, open-source agents as Unix tools

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5 months ago

The current ecosystem around agents feels like a collection of bloated SaaS with expensive subscriptions and privacy concerns. Orla brings large language models to your terminal with a dead-simple, Unix-friendly interface. Everything runs 100% locally. You don't need any API keys or subscriptions, and your data never leaves your machine.

Use it like any other command-line tool:

$ orla agent "summarize this code" < main.go

$ git status | orla agent "Draft a commit message for these changes."

$ cat data.json | orla agent "extract all email addresses" | sort -u

It's built on the Unix philosophy and is pipe-friendly and easily extensible.

The README in the repo contains a quick demo.

Installation is a single command. The script installs Orla, sets up Ollama for local inference, and pulls a lightweight model to get you started.

You can use homebrew (on Mac OS or Linux)

$ brew install --cask dorcha-inc/orla/orla

Or use the shell installer:

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dorcha-inc/orla/main/scrip... | sh

Orla is written in Go and is completely free software (MIT licensed) built on other free software. We'd love your feedback.

Thank you! :-)

Side note: contributions to Orla are very welcome. Please see (https://github.com/dorcha-inc/orla/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for a guide on how to contribute.

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