If the point is autonomy — something that runs on a schedule, keeps going after you close the laptop, and can be handed to someone else to run — that is what AutoGPT is for and Orkas is not a platform. Orkas makes the opposite trade: every step is visible, you can redirect at any of them, and what lands at the end is a file you can review. Free and MIT licensed.
One is designed to keep going without you. The other is designed to keep checking with you.
| Capability | OrkasThis site | AutoGPTAutonomous agent platform |
|---|---|---|
| Running for hours with nobody watching | You stay in the conversation while it works | Built around loops that continue on their own |
| Starting without you present | You start the work | Agents can be set to run on a schedule or trigger |
| Building an agent for other people to run | Skills you save are for your own machine | A platform with blocks and a place to share agents |
| Continuing after you close the laptop | It stops when you close it | A hosted run keeps going without your machine |
| Changing course halfway through | Every step is visible and you can redirect it | You mostly wait for the loop to reach an end |
| What is on the table when it finishes | A reviewable file — deck, video, site, report | Whatever the run happened to produce |
| Files already on your machine | Point it at a folder and it works there | A hosted run cannot see your disk |
| Seeing what a run is costing as it goes | Each step is shown, and you can stop at any of them | A long autonomous run reveals its total at the end |
The four rows on the right are real: if you want something that runs on a schedule, keeps going after you close the lid, and can be handed to someone else to run, that is a platform's job and Orkas is not one. The four on the left are all versions of the same trade — Orkas keeps you in the loop, which costs autonomy and buys control.
You probably should not pick one — Use each tool for the job it is built for, and pass the resulting files into Orkas when you need a coordinated, reviewable deliverable.
The tasks worth leaving alone and the tasks worth watching are rarely the same tasks.
Leave the recurring, well-defined runs where they are. Autonomy earns its keep there.
Bring back the work you actually have to sign off on — the deck, the video, the client-facing report.
Open Orkas on the folder that work lives in and watch it happen step by step.
Orkas is free and MIT licensed, and you can read or build the source yourself. Model usage is separate: use managed official models, or bring your own provider key and the calls go directly to that provider. It is not autonomous in the AutoGPT sense — it works with you rather than instead of you.
It runs a task through to the end while you watch, but it is a desktop application: it stops when you close it, and there is no scheduled or triggered run without you. If unattended execution is the requirement, a platform is the right shape, not Orkas.
No. It runs on your machine and works on your local folders — which is also why it can act on files a hosted run would never see. Model calls go out to a provider, either the managed official models or your own key.
A file in the folder you pointed it at — a deck, a video, a set of pages, a report — plus the steps that produced it, so you can see where a decision was made and redo just that part.
Free, MIT licensed, and it works on the files already sitting on your machine.
