orca-ledger

Imported from zpyoung/orca (skills/orca-ledger/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add zpyoung/orca --skill orca-ledger. Copyright stays with the author.

Orca Ledger

This discovery stub loads the version-matched guide from the Orca executable used for this session.

Engage Orca's ledger CLI (orca ledger ...) whenever an engineering observation needs to outlive the current worktree: file a bug, deferred item, test gap, proposal, or decision; list, show, and triage what is already recorded; edit content or change lifecycle state under an optimistic revision precondition; revert to an earlier revision; and import legacy BUGS.md, DEFERRED.md, TEST_BACKLOG.md, proposals.md, and docs/adr files. Ledgers live in the Orca profile rather than the git checkout, so entries survive worktree deletion and stay visible to sibling worktrees of the same project.

Resolve the CLI for this session

Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:

• If the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this for managed WSL sessions.
• Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, use orca-dev.
• Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use orca-ide. Never run bare orca there — outside Orca's terminals it normally resolves to the GNOME Orca screen reader (/usr/bin/orca) and starts speech on the user's machine.
• Otherwise, use orca.

Below, ORCA is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before running anything; do not create a shell variable or run ORCA literally. This works the same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.

If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different Orca build.

Load the version-matched guide before running Orca commands

ORCA skills get orca-ledger

Prefer --json. Use the selected executable's --help for commands or flags the guide does not cover. If a command reports that Orca is not running, start it with ORCA open --json and retry. If it fails with runtime_access_denied, your sandbox blocked the connection: re-run it with escalated permissions, and do not run ORCA open or restart Orca. If skills get is unknown, explain that updating Orca restores the guide; use --help for read-only discovery and do not guess unsupported commands.