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What is OrchStep and why use it
What is OrchStep?
Automate everything — built for developers and AI agents. OrchStep is a workflow automation and CI/CD engine that runs anywhere as a single binary.
Key Principles
- No platform required. OrchStep is a CLI binary, not a SaaS product. It runs inside your existing CI/CD.
- Shell-first. Delegates to your existing tools (terraform, kubectl, aws, docker).
- Built for AI agents. MCP server, skill documents,
--format json on every command.
- Module ecosystem. Reusable components for common tasks.
- Keyboard-first UX.
orchstep menu opens an interactive task picker with single-keystroke hotkeys and fuzzy search — and refuses to hang in a pipeline.
Who is OrchStep for?
- DevOps engineers automating multi-step operational workflows
- Platform teams standardizing deployment and infrastructure processes
- LLM agents that need to orchestrate complex tasks programmatically
- Anyone who's outgrown bash scripts but doesn't need a full platform