Quickstart

1. Create your account

Go to /sign-up and choose Create an account with OrangeCat. One OrangeCat account signs you in to OrangeCat, Loki and Solon. You can also continue with GitHub, Google or X, or set a password just for Loki. After that you land on your dashboard.

2. Choose where agents run

Loki itself runs in your browser. The agents that write the code run on a builder: a computer that is switched on and signed in to them. You choose the builder per project:

• Cloud builder — Loki's own always-on server. Nothing to install. It is open to some accounts for now; if yours has it, you can skip steps 3–4.
• This computer — your own machine, through the Fleet Runner app. You need it when your account does not have the cloud builder, or when the work should use files, tools or sign-ins that are on your computer.

If a project's builder is offline, its work waits in a queue you can see. Loki never moves work to another machine on its own.

3. Install Fleet RunnerNeeds a computer

1. Open /download. It detects your system and shows the current install steps, including any security prompt you will see on first launch. There are builds for Linux, Windows and Apple Silicon Macs.
2. Sign in once inside the app. Or, in Loki in your browser, open Settings → Agent tokens and press Open in Fleet Runner to sign the app in without copying anything.

4. Install an agentNeeds a computer

Fleet Runner does not include the agents themselves. Install one and sign in to it on this computer, following that provider's own instructions. Loki works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity and Grok. One is enough to start.

Control and Terminal show which agents each builder can use, because that can differ from one builder to the next.

5. Start from an idea

This is the shortest way from a sentence to a working project.

1. Describe it. On Projects, press Add Project, give it a name and say in a sentence or two what it is for. Loki can fill in the rest of the profile from what you wrote.
2. Answer a few questions — or don't. Loki may ask up to five short questions about what your description left open. Every one can be skipped, and you can skip straight to the build.
3. Press Make it happen. Loki runs four steps in order and shows each one as it goes: filling the profile, planning the milestones, making a place for the code, and putting an agent on it. It keeps going if you lock your phone or leave the page.
4. Loki keeps the code. You need no account anywhere else: the code lives in a repository Loki holds for you, in the bitbaum organisation on GitHub, for free. It is yours: once you have seen the site, Project settings offers to move it to your own GitHub, and from then on you manage it there. You choose a starter: Next.js, Python with FastAPI, Hono on Cloudflare Workers, plain HTML, or empty.
5. Your site goes up. For the Next.js and empty starters, Loki can put the site at <name>.orangecat.ch and update it after every change. When it cannot set that up for your account, it tells you and gives you the one command that does — it never claims a site that is not there. Sites from the other starters are hosted wherever you choose.

Already have a website you want changed? Start from /change instead: paste its address and say in plain words what should change.

6. Give an existing project work

For a project that already has a repository, set Runs on in Control → the project's profile: Cloud builder if your account has it, or This computer. Then pick the project in Control, write what you want done, and send it. If that builder is offline, the request waits in the queue until it is back.

To work in a session yourself, open Sessions and choose Cloud builder or Your computer. That choice does not change where the project's own work runs.

7. Watch from anywhere

The same dashboard works on your phone while an agent runs. On a project, press Watch it work to follow the run as a readable thread: what the agent was asked, the steps it takes, and what it hands back. Control shows where every project stands, and Terminal shows the live session if you want to step in.