Claude Squad, and what to use when your team needs more

Short answer: Claude Squad is a great terminal tool for one developer who wants to run several agents at once. If that's you, keep using it. It has no team features, though. When more than one person on your team runs agents and you need to see each other's work, Coagy gives you a shared workspace for that, free for up to 4 developers.

What Claude Squad is

Claude Squad is an open source terminal app, licensed AGPL-3.0 (GitHub). You run cs and get one terminal UI that manages several agent sessions.

• It runs Claude Code by default, and also Codex, Gemini, Aider, OpenCode and Amp. You can point it at any program with -p.
• Each session gets its own git worktree and branch, so agents don't overwrite each other.
• tmux keeps the sessions isolated. It needs tmux and the GitHub CLI (gh) installed.
• You install it with Homebrew or curl, on macOS and Linux.
• It's free. The latest release is v1.0.20 from August 20, 2026 (releases).

For a developer who lives in the terminal, it's about as light as this gets. No account, no server, nothing to sign up for.

Where it stops

Claude Squad has no cloud, remote or team features. Everything lives in tmux on one machine. That means:

• Your teammates can't see what your agents are doing unless they look at your screen.
• When you close your laptop, your sessions stop with it.
• If you're out, nobody can pick up a half-finished session.
• Two developers can have agents working on the same files without either of them knowing.

None of that matters when you work alone. It starts to matter as soon as a second person's agents are in the same repository.

What Coagy adds for a team

Coagy is a shared workspace for a team's coding agents. Each developer keeps running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor on their own computer, with their own AI account. A small connector mirrors their sessions into the team's workspace.

	Claude Squad	Coagy
Several agents, each in its own git worktree and branch	Yes	Yes
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini	Yes	Yes, plus Cursor
Interface	Terminal (tmux)	Web workspace
macOS and Linux	Yes	Yes
Windows	Not stated	Yes, 10 and 11, no admin rights
Teammates watch each other's agents live	No	Yes
Ask or steer a teammate's agent, with the owner's approval	No	Yes
Hand a session to a teammate with context	No	Yes
Keep running when your laptop is closed	No	Yes, in Coagy cloud
Price	Free, open source	Free for up to 4 developers

Sessions in Coagy are private by default; the owner chooses what to share. When a teammate asks your agent a question, you approve the answer. When they steer it, every edit or command from their message asks you first. Shared project memory lets every agent search what the team has already decided.

Which one to pick

• You work alone and like the terminal: Claude Squad.
• You work alone and want a desktop app: look at Coagy Local, T3 Code or Emdash.
• Two or more developers run agents on the same codebase: Coagy.

More on the workflow: how to run several AI coding agents in parallel and git worktrees for AI agents.

Questions

What is Claude Squad?

Claude Squad is an open source terminal app that manages several coding agent sessions at once. It runs Claude Code by default, plus Codex, Gemini, Aider, OpenCode and Amp, and gives each session its own git worktree and branch inside tmux.

Is Claude Squad free?

Yes. Claude Squad is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. It installs with Homebrew or curl on macOS and Linux and needs tmux and the GitHub CLI.

Does Claude Squad work for teams?

Not directly. Claude Squad has no cloud, remote or team features; sessions live in tmux on one machine. For a team, Coagy mirrors each developer's agent sessions into a shared workspace where teammates can watch, ask and steer them with the owner's approval.

What is the best Claude Squad alternative?

For a team, Coagy, which is free for up to 4 developers. For one developer who wants a desktop app instead of the terminal, Coagy Local, T3 Code and Emdash are good free options.