Love to hear it! (Conductor founder here).

This is helpful to know - we're working on adding more agents, Copilot and OpenCode harnesses are among the most popular requests.

We also recently built an escape hatch. If you turn on Settings → Experimental → Big Terminal Mode you can create new terminals in the center panel (with ⌘⇧T) and use any agent you'd like (Copilot, OpenCode, etc). It isn't the best experience because you don't get notifications etc (yet), but at least it lets you use the harness you'd like until we build out the first-class UI for it.

Send me feedback anytime, I'm charlie@conductor.build.

Anyone know of a similar tool to conductor for Linux?

T3 Code should be similar: https://t3.codes/

I’m interested in these types of tools, but the biggest issue I am currently having in my workflow is manually verifying everything is working. Tests and stuff are nice, but typically if there is a bug, the AI agents enshrine it in th tests.

However with worktrees I am not really able to easily copy secrets, etc to run my app, ports conflict, I end up with a bunch of separate dbs and services, etc.

Does conductor help with this? Have you all found any useful ways of making this easier or more automated?

Conductor has a feature that lets you define a script to copy .env and other things as needed from main repo into new worktrees on creation.

I don't use it much anymore, but last I did I would run into port conflicts with docker projects.

Conductor is really nice! A feature I would really like would be to be able to automatically configure “direnv allow” in the different shells as I use nix & direnv all the time

I was an early user of conductor and used it a lot (like from maybe oct to Jan). But then there was some bug where maybe it wouldn’t release file descriptors or something where my laptop needed to be rebooted twice a day. So I stopped using it months ago.

But I’ve tried to reinstall it since and it just gets stuck in a weird infinite loop.

I liked conductor though. Hope you are able to fix those bugs and I can try again in a few weeks.

Howdy, love your product. My coworker and I have literally been begging our coworkers to give it a try. To me, it was the key tool to 'get it' (coming from Cursor) when going from single threaded agentic dev to parallel agentic dev. Please keep up the great work.

Ah shoot sorry to hear that! I’m one of the creators. Can you email me charlie@conductor.build and I can help debug it for you?

co-creator of Conductor here! Conductor is actually a Tauri 2.0 app so it uses the native safari renderer. working on getting remote workspaces working as we speak!

>so it uses the native safari renderer.

Brutal. I had to renice it and do some shenanigans to make it work crispy but now it's decent. Has a lot of hang ups like if you leave a text input focused for too long the fans on your laptop will start.

Founding Engineer @ Conductor (San Francisco, ONSITE)

Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We launched in July through Show HN, and are used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and YC.

We’re on a mission to build the human interface to AI organizations. We’re a team of four looking for one or two more exceptional engineers or designers. No AI experience needed, just some enthusiasm for the awesome alien power of LLMs.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conductor/jobs/MYjJzBV...

Fixed! You can now give Conductor fine-grained GitHub repository access.

Or, skip the integration and use your local GitHub CLI auth.

Are you still using outdated GitHub Oauth apps for this, or have you swapped to GitHub Apps? GitHub Apps are newer and have Oauth flows, but have a fine-grained permissions model instead of the Oauth permission model.

More info: https://docs.github.com/en/apps/oauth-apps/building-oauth-ap...

More-over, can you document the GitHub permissions needed and which GitHub App(s) this tool uses? Are you using device-flow, online oauth-flow, etc? And where are the Oauth tokens stored if so? Is there any server-side component where you might be storing tokens?

Thanks!

Ah, we’d love for Conductor to feel magical to use — we spend a lot of time thinking about this. Any chance you could say more about what’s lost?

Is some of the intermediary output being suppressed? This gives the feeling of CC "working" on my behalf.

Being able to quickly hit escape to interject. Escape again to see the conversation history.

The key bindings should be exactly the same.

I don't think I'm looking for an interface to replace CC - it's a great interactive terminal app.

I just want a better way to manage the sessions.

Thank you! Yes I agree :)

Sorry about that! We’re working on making this more intuitive.

Internally our workflow looks like this: - we have a script that sets up a repo — copies env variables, runs pnpm i, inits a db, etc - we have a field in the repo settings called “setup script.” every time you make a new workspace, that script runs

Hopefully will be much improved over the next week or two!

Thank you! Yes, I agree, we're adding plan mode soon. For now I find Opus responds reliably to "plan this out and don't make any changes."

> - Entering messages when the agents can result in task lists to save time.

Ah yes, queuing coming soon too! Do you prefer if the queued messages send when Claude is finished or interrupt it?

Queued would be more useful as we can also stop the conversation and prompt right away.

Yes Mac only (for now)