Conductor
Conductor is a Mac application for running multiple coding agents at the same time, each in its own isolated workspace, with a single view for tracking what each one is doing and reviewing the changes it produced. It supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode rather than binding to one vendor's agent.
A coding agent occupies the whole project while it works. It edits files, runs tests, and holds the checkout. Independent pieces of work queue behind each other as a result, and throughput is capped by having one workspace rather than by how fast the agent itself is. A developer with three unrelated tasks runs them in sequence and waits on each.
Conductor's stated purpose is to run parallel agents in isolated workspaces on a Mac so their edits do not collide, then let the developer "see at a glance what they're working on, then review and merge their changes." The product is therefore part launcher and part control panel: instead of watching one terminal, the developer sees several agents mid-task and approves or discards each result. The vendor describes the workspaces as isolated per task. The underlying isolation mechanism is not documented on the product page or the documentation introduction, and pricing and macOS version requirements are not stated there either.
Placed in Assess because there is no first-person production use. The center position rather than inner reflects three open questions: the product is young, at version 0.76.0 at the time of review; the operational facts that would decide adoption, including cost, isolation mechanism, and concurrency limits, are not publicly documented; and it is a paid-product bet in a space where a do-it-yourself alternative already works. Conductor occupies the buy end of the spectrum whose assemble-it-yourself end is Parallel Coding Agents with tmux. Both make the same wager, that isolated parallel workspaces raise throughput, but Conductor packages it as a product and spreads it across four agent vendors instead of one.
