Conductor
Mac app for running parallel Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents
Overview
Conductor is a native macOS app from Melty Labs (YC S24) that runs multiple Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode agents in parallel, each in an isolated git-worktree workspace with its own branch, terminal, and diff. Free — you bring your own agent subscription or API keys.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
What you can produce with Conductor
- Isolated git-worktree workspace per agent
- Runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode in parallel
- Per-task branch, terminal, live preview and diff view
- Reuses existing agent subscriptions/API keys (no markup)
- macOS native app (Apple Silicon)
- Free to use
ASEAN Perspective
Conductor in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Conductor solves a real problem cleanly: running several coding agents on the same codebase without them clobbering each other's changes. Each agent gets its own git worktree, branch, terminal and diff, so review and merge stay tractable even with several agents running at once. It's free — you bring your own Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor subscription — and reuses logins you already have.
The catch is the GitHub OAuth setup, which requests broad account-level permissions (including org settings and deploy keys) just to clone a repo you already have checked out locally. Developers have flagged this as disproportionate, and the team has acknowledged it, with a move to scoped GitHub App permissions still pending as of mid-2026.
Apple Silicon Mac only, no Windows or Linux plan announced. Worth it if you already pay for Claude Code or Codex and want to run them in parallel without babysitting git manually.
What people say
Conductor comes from Melty Labs, a YC S24 team that previously built Melty, an open-source AI code editor. The app itself is closed source, though the company publishes an official conductor-releases repository on GitHub for changelogs and issue tracking. As of June 2026, Melty Labs is a roughly six-person San Francisco outfit running on $22M in Series A funding, with a fast release cadence — Cursor support and a new "Dispatcher" feature landed in v0.63.0 that same month, alongside earlier support for Codex and OpenCode.
The core mechanic: each task an agent works on gets its own git worktree — an isolated copy of the codebase with a dedicated branch, files, terminal, live preview, and a reviewable diff — so multiple agents can work the same repo simultaneously without stepping on each other. Reviewers describe the UI as clean and the workflow as genuinely faster than manually managing worktrees by hand; one write-up cited a developer averaging around 17,000 lines of code produced per day with roughly 35% test coverage on the generated code, though that kind of output figure reads as one power user's anecdote rather than a typical result.
Pricing is straightforward: free. Conductor doesn't run its own model or charge API markup — you authenticate with your existing Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor account and pay those providers directly. Planned paid collaboration features (for teams reviewing agent output together) haven't shipped as of mid-2026.
The most consistent complaint is the GitHub permissions model. Because Conductor's OAuth integration doesn't support GitHub's granular permission scopes, it requests broad read-write access to a user's entire GitHub account — including organization settings and deploy keys — just to clone and manage a single repository. One frustrated user summed up the mismatch: they'd wanted a simple worktree manager for a repo already checked out locally, not a request for account-wide GitHub access. Melty Labs has acknowledged the issue is a limitation of OAuth apps versus GitHub Apps and says a migration to scoped GitHub App permissions is planned, though no ship date had landed as of this review.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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