Add ORCH — CLI runtime for AI agent team orchestration

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What is ORCH?

ORCH is a CLI runtime for orchestrating AI agent teams — it coordinates Claude Code, OpenCode (Codex/Gemini/Mistral), Cursor, and shell scripts as a typed engineering team with full lifecycle management.

Why it belongs in Frameworks

ORCH fits alongside frameworks like AutoGen, CrewAI, and LangGraph with a unique CLI-first, runtime approach:

• Formal state machine: todo → in_progress → review → done with validated transitions and a mandatory review gate before completion
• Auto-retry: Failed agents automatically enter retrying state — no silent failures
• Inter-agent messaging: orch msg send <agent-id> "message" — agents coordinate directly
• Goal → Task hierarchy: High-level goals broken into tasks with dependency ordering
• Teams: Named agent teams with roles
• Shared context store: orch context set <key> <value> — agents share runtime state
• TUI dashboard: Ink/React real-time terminal UI

1647 tests (Vitest), MIT license, Node 20+.

Quick start

npm install -g @oxgeneral/orch
orch agent list           # View pre-configured agents
orch task add "Write auth module" -d "JWT + refresh tokens" --assignee backend
orch msg send backend "Check the security requirements in context"
orch tui                  # Live TUI dashboard

GitHub: https://github.com/oxgeneral/ORCH
npm: https://npmjs.com/package/@oxgeneral/orch
License: MIT