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Notes from the execution plane.

Technical explanations of how Orca schedules, isolates, observes, and connects production agents. Written from the implementation, with limits included.

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7 August 202612 min read

ArchitectureInfrastructureAgents

Agent applications are not agent infrastructure

Every platform today hosts agents as deployed applications. Reasoning and execution have different infrastructure properties, and the next platform layer separates them into distinct planes.

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7 August 20269 min read

MCPArchitecturePerformance

How we cut MCP tool-schema tokens by 97% in Orca

Orca’s MCP bridge keeps full tool schemas server-side and shows the model a small card on demand. In a stress test, one tool’s schema dropped from an estimated 54K tokens to 1.3K, a 97.7% cut, with exact execution intact.

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