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ORCA’s domain expertise is built into the product. Templates, deterministic HDL/FBDI generation, the mappings you set, preview, and loads all run without any AI key — the conversion engine works on its own. Adding an Anthropic Claude key layers the agentic experience on top: discovery, guided mapping, conversational chat, and error learning — the smoothness, finesse, and speed, not the foundation.

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Add your Anthropic API key

An admin sets the key in Settings → API Keys.
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Add the key

Click Add API Key and paste your Anthropic key (it starts with sk-ant-).
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Save and verify

Click Save Key. Use Test to validate, or Update / Remove later.
The key is encrypted at rest and never shown in plaintext — the card displays only a masked hint. It’s a per-tenant key that only admins can manage; analysts can view the tab but see no controls.
Without a key, ORCA still works. You can use templates, set mappings, generate load files, and load to Oracle with the built-in deterministic engine. What a key switches on is the AI layer — the conversion agent, chat, the workspace agent panel, Propose Mappings, and background jobs. Add a key and ORCA gets faster and smarter; it doesn’t stop working without one.

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How ORCA chooses a model

You don’t pick a model — ORCA routes each request across Claude’s Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus tiers to balance cost and capability: lighter, faster models for simple turns, and stronger models for complex reasoning and error diagnosis. In interactive chat this is a quick per-turn choice; heavier conversion reasoning can escalate further.
Model selection is automatic and not shown per answer. The chat cost bar surfaces spend, tokens, and calls for the session — useful for keeping an eye on usage.

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The ORCA Autonomous Agent

On the same tab, an admin can enable ORCA Autonomous Agent — project-level orchestration and interview-driven setup. It layers on top of the API key: the project-level chat mode needs both the key and this toggle on.

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Next steps

Connect to Oracle

Point ORCA at an Oracle Fusion pod and run discovery.