# Conductor 58 Hacker News commenters recommended Conductor and 25 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Mac app for running many coding agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree, with easy setup. Critics say it is closed source and Mac-first. ## Why people recommend it - Easy git worktree setup and teardown (6 comments): "I started using it last week and it's been great. Uses git worktrees, experimental feature (spotlight) allows you to quickly check changes from different agents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052821)) "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." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874122)) "Worktrees took way too much setup and hand-holding for me, but conductor.build made it easy!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492661)) - Runs many agent sessions in parallel (6 comments): "it was the key tool to 'get it' (coming from Cursor) when going from single threaded agentic dev to parallel agentic dev" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871667)) "I use conductor with git worktrees and will literally have 10 or 20 running at a time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925489)) "I'm using conductor.build to manage multiple codex sessions at once." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079215)) - Visual UI for agent workspaces (3 comments): "The difference is removing friction, having a UI that shows me what's set up, that I don't need to hit the filesystem or git status to check in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879779)) "Conductor/Composer/Superset etc realized making the sidebar PRs/worktree focused rather than chat focused can feel great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632688)) "UI like Codex, Cursor, T3 Code, Conductor, Intent etc are necessary." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496995)) - Easy switching between models (2 comments): "makes it incredibly easy to try different models, even within the same workspace" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849186)) "lets me flip trivially between OpenAI/Anthropic models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884203)) ## What people warn about - Crashes, bugs and memory leaks (3 comments): "there was some bug where maybe it wouldn’t release file descriptors or something where my laptop needed to be rebooted twice a day" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871275)) "Conductor's been crashing on startup all morning, and nothing I try fixes it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650258)) "Memory leaks and random bugs seem to crop up in Conductor far too often." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600950)) - Closed source, login required (2 comments): "I like conductor.build, they are doing amazing job, but I don't want to give up my freedom and get heavily reliant on closed source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936390)) "didn't love that they weren't open source or required a login to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023251)) - Tied to specific workflows (2 comments): "those have some improvements but are opinionated towards a specific set of workflows" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503614)) "Existing tools like Conductor felt too tied to specific workflows (e.g. Git-based)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783674)) - Runs agents on host with weak sandboxing (3 comments): "This occurred when using conductor.build with .claude/settings.json enabling sandboxing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255067)) "not very jazzed about the fact that it was running the agents directly on the host" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716787)) "Conductor relies mostly on the safety model of the underlying harnesses" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627137)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Superset](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superset.md): 33 recommend - [AX by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ax.md): 15 recommend - [ctx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ctx.md): 13 recommend - [Zenflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zenflow.md): 13 recommend - [Vibe Kanban](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vibe-kanban.md): 11 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.conductor.build/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Conductor", https://hackerapproved.com/p/conductor/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).