Laika Orbit recall MCP server

Laika Orbit

A cockpit for your coding agents. Run many Claude Code chats at once. Orbit keeps them moving, puts what needs you first, and sits beside the editor you already use. Open source, and it all runs on your own Mac.

Status: macOS preview. Built and used daily on macOS, and built with itself

(how). The recall engine, CLI and MCP server run

anywhere Node runs; the desktop app is macOS first, Linux best effort, Windows untested.

What it does

Give it a goal. It runs the fleet. A conductor chat sends each of your chats its next step. Switch to Away and it keeps them going: plainly safe steps are approved, stuck chats are brought back, and anything that reaches outside your Mac waits for you. Come back to one summary card. Away mode.

Every chat, and what each one needs. Chats run side by side, one per task, on any of your Claude accounts, and come back after a restart or a crash. The fleet board puts the ones waiting on you at the top.

Long jobs report themselves. Builds, test runs and batch jobs share one runs page, with progress, an ETA, and before/after compares. A job that goes quiet is flagged as stalled.

Work that waits its turn. A queue of next tasks that survives restarts. With autopilot on, the next item starts by itself when a chat frees up.

Heavy work goes to your other machines. Tests, builds and captures run on a Linux box under the desk and the files come back (below). Windows PCs for GPU work are in testing.

And the rest of your day in the same window: panels you dock and lay out, a real Chromium browser with a profile per account, inbox and calendar widgets, and a live map of everything you know. Hidden panels stop drawing: idle, the app went from 41% of one CPU core to 11%, and to 5.5% while you're in another window.

Finished work folds itself into main (new). Each chat shows its branch, its commits and its uncommitted files. Mark a chat's work ready and the merge train lands it on your local main once the repo's own check passes. If the check goes red, it finds which chat's work broke it, lands the rest, and sends that chat the failing output. Pushing stays with you.

Laika Orbit recall

Underneath is Laika Orbit recall, a retrieval engine that answers questions about your files without calling a model: the exact section and the file it came from, in about a millisecond, with 97.8% fewer tokens than an agent grepping and reading whole files (bench/RESULTS.md). It works in any Claude Code session on its own:

claude mcp add laikaorbit -- npx -y laikaorbit mcp

Requirements

login, and Laika Orbit never sees or stores your credentials. Until then, a demo agent runs offline so you can try the panel.

• Node 22.18 or newer (runs TypeScript directly) and pnpm 10. mise install sets up both.
• macOS for the desktop app. pdftotext for PDF indexing: brew install poppler.
• Your own Claude account for chats. Sign in from the Claude panel; it runs Claude Code's own

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/Laika-Dynamics-Ltd/laika-orbit.git && cd laika-orbit
mise install && pnpm install

cd packages/app && node server.mjs    # the app at http://localhost:5200
pnpm shell                            # (from the root) the same app in its own window, with real browser tabs

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.