mngr
Shares rank 24 of 26 agent orchestrators by recommenders
Free tool from Imbue for running and managing many Claude agents in parallel, with reported success; critics note centralized key, permission and dashboard management is lacking.
Free tool from Imbue for running and managing many Claude agents in parallel, with reported success; critics note centralized key, permission and dashboard management is lacking.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs many agents in parallel
“run a bunch of agents in parallel and they should be able to smooth out any issues”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Why AI Code Needs the Same Rigor We Should've Been Using All Along” “have been having a ton of success with it”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “A case study in testing with 100 of Claude agents in parallel”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Lacking centralized key and permission management
“The centralised key and permission management and agent dashboarding is severly lacking though.”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox”
Other agent orchestrators people recommend
The four most recommended other agent orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Gas Town | 95 | 212 | 31% | 10 | 1 mo3 owners | — |
| Conductor | 58 | 25 | 70% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Superset | 33 | 16 | 67% | 8 | 2 mo4 owners | Approved |
| Scion by Google | 28 | 32 | 47% | 8 | — | — |
| mngrThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“In the spirit of composing small units of software together, `mngr` works with `latchkey`”
“The centralised key and permission management and agent dashboarding is severly lacking though.”
“It seems to have a bunch of the features you're looking for.”
“it's very easy to just attach to those sessions”
“have been having a ton of success with it”
“mngr is an example of how to do that.”
“run a bunch of agents in parallel and they should be able to smooth out any issues”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.