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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

At a glance Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service for training and evaluating agents across task domains. The same Orchard infrastructure supports software-engineering, web-navigation, and personal-assistant agents, and can train them directly inside real deployment harnesses such as Codex, OpenClaw, and ZeroClaw—letting researchers reuse environments, data pipelines, and evaluation workflows across tasks. Or

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