Cadenya
Freemium
Developers building agentic workflows
Coding agents that pass the demo fail the audit — they run, they change files, and nobody can tell you whether the test suite passed or why the task was marked done. Orbit exists for that gap.
Orbit is an open-source harness that wraps AI coding agent runs in a fixed loop: pick a task from a dependency-ordered backlog, run the agent, validate the output against tests, lint, and type checks, then record structured evidence before the task closes. Nothing advances without proof. Each run produces four artifact files — agent output, rubric scores, a recommendation, and a human-readable log — so you can inspect exactly what happened without replaying the whole session. The harness is agent-neutral; Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any JSON-speaking CLI plugs in behind the same contract. The ceiling appears quickly on teams who need anything beyond the validation-gate model — custom orchestration, parallel agent execution, or UI-driven workflow design are not in scope.
Bottom line: The right call for teams who want a traceable, self-healing coding loop with a single agent and a failing test suite; the wrong call the moment you need parallel agent execution or a workflow canvas that non-engineers can configure.
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Long-term continuity in multi-session coding projects
Most AI coding runs disappear into a terminal. You know the agent touched files; you do not know whether the change was correct, what tests it passed, or how the next task should proceed. Orbit structures that loop: it selects a task from a dependency-ordered backlog, routes it to a coding agent, runs validation gates — tests, lint, type checks — and refuses to close the task unless the agent can prove completion. Every orbit produces four structured artifacts: agent-result.json (what the agent returned and which files changed), evaluation.json (rubric scores across task focus, diff signal, and validation), review.json (accept, iterate, or stop recommendation), and progress.md (a human-readable mission log).
The differentiating feature is the validation gate as a hard stop, not a suggestion. The vendor states the design principle directly: if the agent cannot prove it, the orbit does not close. That makes Orbit useful for self-healing repository workflows — feed it a backlog of failing tests or lint violations, and the harness advances only the orbits that survive the checks. Because the contract is agent-neutral JSON, teams can swap the underlying coding agent and compare artifacts across runs rather than comparing impressions.
Orbit fits a specific wedge: small-to-medium development teams who want auditable, iterative coding automation and are willing to work at the CLI level. It is intentionally scoped. The docs describe it as ‘intentionally small,’ and community contribution guidance focuses on making the harness easier to verify and replay — not on expanding surface area. Teams that need a workflow canvas, parallel agent coordination, or non-engineer-facing configuration will hit the ceiling of what the harness expresses.
Orbit is MIT-licensed and self-hosted only — there is no hosted API or managed cloud offering. The deterministic replay demo (MOCK=1 ./replay.sh auth-rescue) runs without an API key and shows the full select-validate-record loop, which makes the evaluation path clear before any agent credentials are involved.
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