Hi, I’m Bilal.

I’ve been writing software for about two decades. In my off-hours I build free apps for nonprofits and my community, and the occasional tool I want for myself.

orchid is one of those tools. I was already paying for more than one coding agent, and each was good on its own. What I didn’t have was a way to let them work together without me sitting in the middle: one writes, another reviews, my tests decide, and I hear about it only when there is a real decision to make.

So orchid is deliberately small: a bash state machine, git for memory, and the CLIs I already had. I dogfood it on itself and on the apps I build, and I write down what breaks. The README says plainly what is enforced, what is policy and what hasn’t been proven yet.

It’s the third of shellbell, which brings a terminal to you when it needs attention, and sous, which keeps one list of what is waiting on you. I build and maintain all three on my own. The code is open so you can read it, run it, and write the engine adapter your work needs.