Why OrKa Exists? What We’re Building Together?

[marcosomma]

🧠 Why OrKa Exists and What We’re Building Together

OrKa isn’t just another AI framework. It’s a statement:
We need to stop wiring cognition like spaghetti.

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🧠 The Problem

AI workflows today are a mess. Prompts jammed into scripts. Chained LLM calls with zero traceability. Closed boxes and brittle glue.

If you’ve ever:

• Tried debugging an LLM chain with no logs
• Fought with a wrapper that made things less flexible
• Wondered what happened between “input” and “output”

You’ve felt the pain OrKa was built to fix.

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🧰 The OrKa Approach

OrKa (Orchestrator Kit for Agents) is a YAML-based cognitive orchestrator. You define reasoning pipelines declaratively, like mental architectures, not as spaghetti code.

It’s built on these beliefs:

• Reasoning should be modular. Agents should be swappable parts, not locked chains
• Every step should be explainable. Logs, outputs, paths, all visible
• Control should be yours. No black boxes. No “just trust the wrapper”
• Flow matters. The structure of cognition is part of cognition

With OrKa, you get:

✅ YAML-defined flows (no hardcoding logic)
✅ Modular agents: classify, search, validate, compose
✅ Full trace logs (Redis/Kafka)
✅ Dynamic routing with RouterAgents (in ORCA-CORE)
✅ Visual builder (OrKaUI alpha live)
✅ PyPI install: pip install orka-reasoning
✅ GitHub: https://github.com/marcosomma/orka-reasoning
✅ Local UI: OrKa-UI docker pull marcosomma/orka-ui:latest

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🌍 The Mission (from the OrKa Manifesto)

Cognition is not a monolith. It’s a conversation between agents.
OrKa exists to make that conversation visible, editable, and modular
so humans can build reasoning the way they build software.

This isn’t just dev tooling. It’s cognitive infrastructure.
A foundation for AGI research, open science, and explainable AI systems.

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🤝 Call for Collaborators

This is early. Alpha. A little rough around the edges.

But it works. And it’s ready for minds who want to build better AI cognition.

If you:

• Care about agentic systems
• Hate black-box workflows
• Want to help define the orchestration layer for modular reasoning

Let’s build this together.

🧪 Try it
⭐️ Star it
💬 Drop feedback here or on Discord → https://discord.gg/UthTN8Xu

I’ll be listening, shipping, and collaborating out in the open.

— Marco