Conductor

Conductor: Parallel AI Coding Agents on Your Mac

If you have spent time waiting for Claude Code to finish one task before you can start the next, Conductor is the direct answer to that frustration. Conductor is a Mac app for orchestrating teams of coding agents -- specifically, it lets you spin up multiple Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents simultaneously, each working in its own sandboxed environment, while you monitor and review everything from a single interface.

What It Actually Does

Conductor is a Mac app that lets you run multiple Claude Code agents in parallel, each with an isolated copy of your codebase. The isolation mechanism is git worktrees, not separate full clones, which is a meaningful implementation detail. The git worktree approach is clever -- true isolation without the overhead of multiple clones.

The recommended workflow is straightforward: create one workspace per feature or task, let an agent start working on it, and instead of watching it run, immediately spin up another workspace for the next task. Conductor's own advice is to create one workspace per feature. Once agents finish, you review their diffs and merge. You can see what each agent is working on, then review and merge their changes in one place.

Who It Is For

Someone made the interesting point that this type of chunk work makes more sense to senior devs or tech leads whose workday is usually a series of interruptions, as opposed to the devs who need to get "in flow." That framing is accurate. If you are the kind of developer who is already juggling multiple concerns at once -- triaging bugs while a PR sits in review while a feature branch stalls -- Conductor maps well onto how you already work. You are just replacing "context switching between your own tasks" with "dispatching agents and reviewing their output."

It is less suited to developers who prefer deep, focused work on a single problem. The parallel model requires you to act more as a reviewer and director than as an implementer, which is a real shift in how you engage with code.

Pricing

The free pricing eliminates financial risk -- download it, test whether parallel AI workflows fit your projects. For developers already paying for Claude Code or Codex subscriptions, Conductor adds no marginal cost beyond time learning the new workflow model.

Conductor itself costs nothing. The real cost is whatever you are already spending on your Claude or Codex access. If you are already paying for Claude Max, adding Conductor is purely additive.

Strengths

The git worktree approach is the most technically sound part of the design. Agents do not stomp on each other because they each have a genuinely separate working tree, not just a separate conversation. The real-time dashboard showing what each agent is currently doing means you can catch runaway or confused agents early rather than discovering the mess after the fact.

Conductor is a Mac-native app that orchestrates multiple coding agents in parallel -- Claude Code and OpenAI Codex -- each working in isolated git worktrees. It gives you real-time visibility into what each agent is doing, lets you review their changes, and merges everything back when ready. The integration with Vercel's AI gateway is also documented, which signals that the tool is getting real adoption beyond hobbyist use.

Limitations

The platform has real constraints worth knowing before you commit to it. The narrow focus (Mac-only, two agents) limits market size. Competition from well-funded alternatives may squeeze the product. If your team uses Windows or Linux, Conductor is not an option at all.

There is definitely some care needed to represent the workspace name vs. task name vs. task branch , and the current UI makes this more manual than it needs to be. For solo developers the overhead is manageable, but for teams wanting shared agent workflows or enterprise audit trails, the tool is not there yet.

The tool also only supports Claude Code and Codex. If your team uses Gemini CLI or another agent runtime, you are out of luck for now.

Bottom Line

Conductor solves a real and specific problem: the serial bottleneck of running one AI coding agent at a time. It does this with a technically sensible approach and no additional subscription cost. The Mac-only constraint and the early-stage UX mean it is best treated as a power-user tool for individual developers or tech leads who want to experiment with genuinely parallel AI-assisted development today. Conductor is a UI-driven tool that allows devs to run multiple Claude Code agents in parallel, each with its own isolated workspace. The tool handles git worktrees automatically, letting devs monitor agent progress, identify issues, and review code changes. For what it is, it does that job cleanly.