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[Feature]: Add Prime Agent (PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent) to supported agents #12892
Description
Problem or use case
Orca already supports 30+ CLI agents — it would be great to also include Prime Agent (https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent).
Prime Agent is an open-source (MIT) autonomous coding/research agent by Prime Intellect, built for long-running tasks. What makes it stand out:
- Programmatic everything — built on a persistent IPython session; files, shell, tools, and subagents are all driven through code rather than ad-hoc tool calls
- Recursive Language Model (RLM) design — treats context as variables and tools as function calls, and can spawn child agents via
rlm(...)for parallel work - Self-improving harness —
/refineupdates its prompts and memories based on evidence from past sessions - Executable skills — reusable workflows become importable Python packages
- Built for long-running work — sessions run as background daemons with detach/reattach, heartbeats, persistent goals, autonomous mode with budgets, and automatic compaction — which pairs nicely with Orca's parallel worktrees
Would be great to see it as a first-class option in the agent picker. Thanks!
Proposed solution
It runs as a standard CLI tool, so it should fit Orca's "any CLI agent" model well:
- Install:
curl -fsSL https://app.primeintellect.ai/prime-agent/install.sh | sh - Launch:
prime-agentin the project directory
Alternatives or additional context
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Activity
smwbev commentedon Aug 7, 2026
An implementation of this exists: #12935 — registration (picker, settings, launch with prompt injection, process recognition, icons, i18n, mobile parity) plus Agent Session History (transcript indexing and resume), maintainer-reviewed end to end. It's currently on hold pending prime-agent's release cadence settling and broader adoption — details in the PR thread. If this agent matters to you, feedback there is useful signal.
giezi commentedon Aug 7, 2026
Many thanks for the pointer — looks like our timing just overlapped: I hadn't seen #12935 before opening this. Great to hear an implementation already exists and has been reviewed end to end. Consider this issue a +1 / signal of interest in prime-agent support — I'll follow the PR thread and leave feedback there. Feel free to close this as a duplicate.