A Conductor alternative for teams
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Short answer: if you used Conductor to run several Claude Code or Codex agents side by side, Coagy does that too, and adds the part Conductor never did: your teammates can see what every agent is doing, ask it questions and pick up its work. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, and it's free for up to 4 developers.
What happened to Conductor
Meta acquired Conductor (Melty Inc.) on November 4, 2026, and its founders joined Meta Superintelligence Labs (TechCrunch, InfoWorld). New sign-ups and downloads stopped the same day. Reports say Conductor Cloud shuts down on November 20, and the Mac app only gets critical fixes into early 2027.
If your team's workflow depends on it, now is the time to move, before the cloud workspaces go away.
What Conductor did well
Conductor made one idea easy: give every coding agent its own git worktree, so five agents can work on five branches at once without overwriting each other. You watched them in one window, reviewed the diffs, and merged.
That idea is right, and Coagy keeps it. Every Coagy task gets its own worktree on its own branch, so parallel agents never share files.
Where Coagy is different
Conductor was a single-player tool: one developer, many agents, one Mac. Coagy is built for a team.
| Conductor | Coagy | |
|---|---|---|
| Parallel agents, each in its own git worktree | Yes | Yes |
| Claude Code and Codex | Yes | Yes |
| Gemini CLI and Cursor | Cursor | Yes, both |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux and Windows | No | Yes |
| Teammates see each other's agents live | No | Yes |
| Ask another person's agent what it changed and why | No | Yes |
| Steer a teammate's agent, with the owner's approval | No | Yes |
| Agents keep running when your laptop closes | Conductor Cloud (shutting down) | Coagy cloud, $0.20 a machine hour |
| Uses your own Claude, ChatGPT or API key login | Yes | Yes |
| Open to new users | No, since November 4, 2026 | Yes, free for up to 4 developers |
How to switch
- Merge or push any branches you still have open in Conductor, so nothing lives only in its workspaces.
- Sign up for Coagy and create a workspace for your repository.
- Run the one-line connect command on your computer. It works on macOS, Linux and Windows 10 or 11 without admin rights. Your agents keep running on your machine, with your own AI account.
- Start a task. Coagy makes a worktree and a branch for it and runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor there. Start a second and third task the same way to run them in parallel.
- Invite your teammates. People who only watch, comment and chat are free.
Other Conductor alternatives
Coagy isn't the only option, and it isn't the right one for everyone. If you work alone and only want more agents on one machine, look at:
- Orca: a free, open source desktop app that runs CLI agents in worktrees, with a Conductor migration guide.
- Superset (now Paradev): a workspace for any CLI agent, with cloud workspaces on a paid plan.
- Emdash: free and open source, runs 25+ agents in their own worktrees.
- Claude Squad: open source, runs in the terminal with tmux and worktrees.
- Cursor: runs parallel agents in local worktrees inside the editor, if your team is already on Cursor.
Pick Coagy when more than one person on your team runs coding agents and you want to stop asking "what is your agent doing?" in Slack. See how teams run Claude Code, Codex and Cursor together and how to run several agents at once without collisions.
Questions
Is Conductor shutting down?
Meta acquired Conductor on November 4, 2026. New sign-ups and downloads stopped that day, Conductor Cloud is reported to shut down on November 20, 2026, and the Mac app is expected to get only critical fixes into early 2027.
What is the best Conductor alternative for a team?
Coagy, if several people on your team run coding agents. It runs agents in parallel worktrees like Conductor did, and it also lets teammates watch each other's agents live, ask them questions and steer them with the owner's approval. It works on macOS, Linux and Windows and is free for up to 4 developers.
Does Coagy run agents in parallel like Conductor?
Yes. Every Coagy task gets its own git worktree on its own branch, so several Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor agents can work on the same repository at once without overwriting each other.
Does Coagy work on Windows and Linux?
Yes. Conductor was Mac only. Coagy's connect command works on macOS, Linux and Windows 10 or 11, without admin rights.
Do I pay for AI usage through Coagy?
No. Agents run with each developer's own Claude, ChatGPT, Google or API key login, so AI costs stay with your own provider accounts. Coagy is free for up to 4 developers.
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