Your first Mule API in Orca Cockpit

The biscuit beta is long enough to take a Mule project from an empty Ask thread to a running hello-world API. This is the shortest path we use ourselves.

Before you open the IDE

• Accept your Clerk invite, set a password, and land on Account.
• In Vault, save your Cursor API key and Anypoint Connected App (client ID, secret, org ID).
• Download Orca Cockpit for Mac or Windows.

Do not start in the IDE. Secrets are website-only writes. The desktop hydrates them after Sign in.

Sign in, then Ask

Open the app and choose Sign in. Clerk on orcaesb.com, then back to localhost. You should land in Ask with Connections showing Cursor and Anypoint.

What applications and vCores can you see in this Anypoint org? I am about to add a hello-world HTTP API.

Open the Project

When you are ready for files on disk, open the default Project created on first account visit. One Project, one Linux VM. Extra Projects come from Orca Cockpit IDE. The website /access page lists them.

Scaffold a Maven Mule project named hello-api with GET /hello returning {"message":"ok"}. Show the OAS, then write the flows on this Project.

What “done” looks like

Left: one bot selected. Center: the thread that created the project. Right: the VM where the listener ran. If any panel is empty, that is the next fix — not a new tool to install on your laptop.