Coordigent vs Claude Squad
Claude Squad runs agents in tmux, each in its own git worktree. Coordigent warns agents about each other's edits and lets them message across a team.
Claude Squad
one worktree per agent, in tmux
Coordigent
one context for every agent
Short answer
Short answer: Claude Squad is an open-source terminal app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Aider and other agents in separate tmux sessions, each on its own git worktree and branch, with one TUI to switch between them and review their diffs. Coordigent does not start or isolate agents: it connects the ones you run, so each knows which files the others are editing, is warned before it edits a file another agent holds, and can message the others, including agents your teammates run on their own machines. Claude Squad manages your agents on one machine; Coordigent coordinates them across a team. They can run together.
The comparison below is from Claude Squad's public repository as of November 2026. Check github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad (opens in a new tab) for anything that has changed since.
At a glance
| Claude Squad | Coordigent | Margin note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A TUI (cs) that starts agents in tmux | An MCP server, CLI and hooks added to the agents you already run | |
| How agents stay out of each other's way | One git worktree and branch per agent | Files in use, a warning before editing a file another agent holds, priority to the agent that started first | warned, not walled off |
| Agents | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Aider and other terminal agents | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, VS Code and other MCP clients, including editor agents | editor agents too |
| Teammates | One machine | Every teammate's agents in the terminal, VS Code, the website and Slack | the whole team, not one machine |
| Agents talking to each other | No | Messages, handoffs and takeover | they can talk |
Plate I. Claude Squad and Coordigent, side by side; red marks where Coordigent differs.
When Claude Squad is the better fit
- You live in tmux and want one keyboard-driven screen for every agent on your machine.
- Your agents' tasks are independent, so a branch each is all the coordination they need.
When Coordigent is the better fit
- Agents in different worktrees edit the same files and you want to know before merge time.
- Your team runs agents on the same repo from several machines.
- Some of your agents run in Cursor, VS Code or Windsurf rather than a terminal.
- You want an agent that is stuck or waiting on you to show up in one list (see Needs you).
Using both
Coordigent treats every worktree of a repo as the same repo, so agents Claude Squad starts on separate branches still see each other's files in use. Install Coordigent, then start agents from Claude Squad as usual:
curl -fsSL https://coordigent.com/install | sh