Alternatives

Best Conductor Alternative

Conductor alternatives come up when you want broader agent support beyond Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, a built-in editor or agent-drivable browser, container isolation, or scriptable control from a CLI.

What to look for in a Conductor alternative

  • Support for the agents you already use — and custom terminal agents
  • A built-in editor, browser, diff viewer, and code review
  • Worktrees plus optional container, cloud, or remote-SSH isolation
  • A CLI or API for launching, checking, and messaging agents

Recommended options

Agentastic

Our pick

Native macOS workspace with 40 built-in agent definitions for parallel git worktrees. Built-in editor, browser, diff viewer, and code review.

Paseo

Open-source agent orchestrator with desktop, web, mobile, and CLI clients connected to a self-hosted daemon.

Superset

Source-available macOS workspace for running any CLI agent in parallel terminal panes and git worktrees.

cmux

Open-source TUI for running multiple AI coding agents tmux-style.

How to switch from Conductor cleanly

Open the same repository in Agentastic and your installed agent CLIs are discovered automatically. The worktree-per-task mental model carries over; Agentastic adds 40 built-in definitions, a native editor and browser, containers, remote workspaces, and the system-wide dev CLI.

Common questions

Why move from Conductor?

You may not need to. Conductor is a strong chat-first choice for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Agentastic fits better when you want a terminal-first native IDE, many more agent definitions, browser automation, containers, remote SSH, or scripting.

Does Conductor support git worktrees?

Yes. Both Conductor and Agentastic isolate parallel tasks with git worktrees.