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Managing your server by chat

Every Orca server has a chat with Ask Orca, your AI server admin. Type what you want in plain English and Orca runs it on the server you own. Install a mod, build a custom plugin, restart after a config change, set the difficulty, or read the logs after a crash. You stay in the console the whole time.

This page covers what Ask Orca can do today. Each action listed here is wired and works right now. For the full picture of the AI admin, see the Ask Orca hub. A few things are still done from the dashboard, not chat, and those are spelled out at the end so you know where to go.

What Ask Orca does today

These are the wired actions. Ask in plain English and Orca acts on your server. Chat is free, and so is building, downloading, and installing mods and plugins.

  • Install any mod, modpack, or plugin. Name a project from Browse (39,000+ from Modrinth and CurseForge) and Orca installs it onto your running server.
  • Build a custom mod or plugin. Describe a feature and Orca writes the code, compiles it to a signed .jar, and deploys it onto the server.
  • Start, stop, or restart the server. Stop preserves your world.
  • Run console commands. Give items, teleport, set the time or weather, and run gamerules from chat.
  • Set difficulty, gamemode, and the whitelist. Change settings and manage who can join by asking.
  • Read logs and diagnose a crash. Orca reads the server logs, finds what went wrong, and walks you through the fix.
  • Create and list your servers. Spin up a new server or see the ones you already have, without leaving chat.

How a request runs

You type the request, Orca picks the matching action, and it runs against the server you own. For an install, Orca fetches the project, drops it onto the server, and tells you when it is live. For a custom build, Orca writes the code, boots a test server in its sandbox to confirm the jar loads, auto-fixes its own build errors, and only then deploys the finished, signed file.

For a crash, Orca reads the logs, names the likely cause, and either fixes it when you ask or tells you the exact step to take. Running servers are AI-assisted: Orca acts when you ask, so you stay in control of every change.

Example things to ask

A few requests that map straight to wired actions:

  • "Install Create and restart the server."
  • "Build me a plugin that gives every new player a starter kit."
  • "Set the difficulty to hard and turn on keepInventory."
  • "Whitelist my friend's handle and op me."
  • "The server keeps crashing on boot, read the logs and tell me why."
  • "Make a second server running Paper in US West."

Done from the dashboard, not chat

A handful of actions live in the server dashboard instead of Ask Orca. If you ask for one of these in chat, head to the dashboard to do it:

  • Resize RAM. You add gigabytes from the dashboard, not by asking.
  • Change the Minecraft version or loader. Both are set when you create the server.
  • Delete a server. This is a dashboard-only action.
  • Install a Bedrock add-on. Bedrock add-ons are not a chat install.

Safe by design

Ask Orca only acts on servers you own. Every action is scoped to your server, screened, and logged, and Orca refuses destructive or abusive requests. That is Guardian, the layer that keeps the AI admin inside the lines while you run your server from chat.

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