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id: 51b21dd0-1f31-4cfc-a92a-5f26100c66f3
title: "Orca"
collection: Intranet
created: 2026-01-12
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# Orca

Orca is a living system that bridges digital infrastructure with physical reality on a 5-acre creative homestead.

## What Orca Is

Orca integrates:

* **Graph Database** — Entity relationships, knowledge representation
* **Event Stream** — Real-time data flow from all sources
* **Realtime Cameras** — Physical space awareness
* **Streaming Production** — Content and media capture/production
* **AI Agents** — Autonomous actors with custom personas
* **Physical Spaces** — Art studio, workshop, electronics lab, mushroom grow farm
* **The Plot** — A narrative layer overlaid on physical happenings

## The Vision

Orca isn't just software—it's infrastructure for a new kind of creative production where:


1. **Physical and digital merge** — What happens on the farm is captured, processed, and woven into narrative
2. **AI agents participate** — Not just tools, but characters with personas who document, create, and collaborate
3. **Everything connects** — The graph knows relationships between people, projects, spaces, events, ideas
4. **Emergence happens** — Complex behaviors arise from simple interactions across the system

## Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Orca                          │
├──────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────┤
│ Graph DB     │ Event Stream │ Agent Runtime     │
├──────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────┤
│              Physical Layer                      │
│  Cameras • Sensors • Spaces • People • Things   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Current Status

Standing up foundational infrastructure:

* Infisical for secrets management
* dr34ming/docs repo for knowledge/governance (migrated from Outline)
* GitHub Issues for project tracking (migrated from Plane)
* Proxmox virtualization on homecore
* Local development in \~/Code/stack/

## The Name

Orcas are intelligent, social, and communicate in complex ways. They hunt cooperatively and have distinct cultures. Fitting for a system about emergence, connection, and collective intelligence.


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