Engineer First AI

Your engineering process, followed by Claude, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode

AI tools will change. Your engineering workflow won't.

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orkai · your engineering process, on every AI tool

Developer environments and AI coding tools sit above OrkAI, which holds engineering context: tasks, standards, workflows, plans, architecture, knowledge, sessions, and review. AI tools will change. Your engineering workflow won't.

The problem

New tool. New chat. Blank process.

Architecture, standards, and workflows shouldn't restart with every AI tool — they belong to your engineering process, not the vendor.

Without orkai

New chat Context: none

Can you pick up the auth refactor we started yesterday?

I don't have earlier context for this project. Which repo, branch, and constraints should I use?

Please re-attach the architecture PDF if you want me to follow it.

With orkai

New chat Process + context ready

Can you pick up the auth refactor we started yesterday?

Picking up where we left off — auth refactor from yesterday's session.

architecture-notes.mdstandards · TDD-firstworkflow · Backend

I have your architecture doc and TDD preference. Start with the middleware package?

Workflows

Define how you engineer — once.

Requirements, architecture, planning, implementation, review — reusable workflows any AI coding tool can follow.

Same process · every tool

workflow

Requirements workflow — not the code

A structured way to capture what users need, acceptance criteria, and priority — without drowning in implementation detail.

Downstream workflows inherit a clear brief. You stop re-explaining “what we’re building” in every chat.

user outcomesacceptance criteriapriority

workflow

Architecture and standards as process

Turns the Product Owner brief into architecture decisions, standards, and constraints implementation must follow.

Boundaries, patterns, and “how we build here” live in orkai — so every tool follows the same technical process.

architecturestandardsconstraints

workflow

Plan tree and the right workflow per task

Reads the brief and architecture, then persists plan › milestone › tasks — and assigns Frontend, Backend, or other workflows where each task belongs.

The tree is the contract. Implementation picks up concrete jobs; you don’t re-scope mid-chat.

plan treerole assignmentmilestones

workflow

UI implementation workflow

Component patterns, routing, lint, and build gates are part of the playbook — not something you paste every morning.

Runs on tasks the Feature Planner assigned. Ships in the shape your repo already expects.

componentsroutinglint + build

workflow

Backend implementation workflow

APIs, operations, tests, and the gates you care about are already in the graph for this workflow.

Same playbook powers interactive sessions and async tasks the planner assigned.

APIs / opstest patternbuild gates

runs workflows

Load your process in the tool you use

Start a session, load a workflow, and your AI coding tool walks the steps you already defined — with project context attached.

Same engineering process whether you’re in Claude, Cursor, Codex, or OpenCode. You don’t re-teach how work is done.

runs workflows

When you want it, your workflow can run without you.

Assign a task. Choose the workflow. Choose the model. OrkAI loads the same project knowledge, standards, architecture, and engineering steps you use interactively — and applies them during background execution.

Without a workflow, AI has no engineering process to follow. AI can generate code. OrkAI defines how the work should be done.

Playbook · Product Owner

Playbook · Architect

Playbook · Feature Planner

Playbook · Frontend Developer

Playbook · Backend Developer

Example · interactive session

Load Feature Planner — turn the checkout redesign brief into a plan with the right roles on each task.

Loaded Feature Planner from orkai. Walking the playbook you configured:

I have the Product Owner acceptance criteria and Architect standards already in context — no re-brief.

Persisting plan › milestone › tasks, then assigning Frontend to the UI slice and Backend to the payment webhook.

Want the first milestone scoped to launch-critical only?

Example · async execution of a defined process

orkai work · same process running

Clean stale deps in internal/index

Backend Developer workflow_id model · chosen

The split

AI can write code. OrkAI gives it an engineering process to follow.

Your engineering process shouldn't belong to an AI vendor.

AI coding tools

Generate code
Execute prompts
Reason about implementation

OrkAI

Engineering standards
Architecture context
Workflows
Project knowledge
How work should be performed

For Cursor, Claude, Codex, and OpenCode on your machine — your engineering process layer, not a cloud memory API.

Gate every commit

Standards in orkai. Review on every push.

Point each process at the standards you already keep in orkai. Wire a git hook. When a change fails review, the run stops, the JSON report says why, and your coding tool fixes it against the same standards — before the branch moves on.

Standards
In orkai

Architecture · design system · backend rules you already saved

backend-standardsdesign-tokensfe-patterns
Configure
Project + machine

.orkai.yaml processes · ~/.orkai/config.yaml chat models

backend_reviewfrontend_reviewdesign_system
Git hook
Every commit / push

orkai review · exit non-zero stops the land

pre-commitpre-pushexit 1
Fix loop
Read report → fix

JSON on disk · coding tool patches until green

.orkai/reportssuggestionre-run

Report · blocked commit

orkai review · backend_review fail

mode · diff strict · true knowledge_base · 2 standards .orkai/reports/

3 files 1 failed 1 high · 1 medium

fail backend/internal/services/pdf_service.go

high
New report DTOs live in the service package — standard requires one responsibility per package.

suggestion · move transport DTOs to the handler boundary
pass backend/internal/services/tool_service.go
pass backend/internal/services/system_prompt.go

exit 1 · pre-commit blocked

Same tool · closes the loop

standards · .orkai.yaml · ~/.orkai/config.yaml · git hook · .orkai/reports · docs/review

Local & private

Yours — not rented

One download. Your process, projects, rules, and history stay on your disk. We don't train on your code — license check only.

Licensing — 7-day trial, $49.99 single, or $99 for 3 devices
No cloud account required
Offline grace — 14 days on paid plans (not trial)

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Or own it from $49.99 — your engineering process on your machine, for keeps.

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New tool. New chat. Blank process.

Define how you engineer — once.

AI can write code. OrkAI gives it an engineering process to follow.

Standards in orkai. Review on every push.

In orkai

Project + machine

Every commit / push

Read report → fix

Yours — not rented

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