Coordigent vs Conductor
Conductor runs coding agents on a Mac, each in its own git worktree. Coordigent warns agents about each other's edits across worktrees and teammates.
Conductor
one worktree per agent
Coordigent
one context for every agent
Short answer
Short answer: Conductor is a Mac app that runs several Claude Code or Codex agents side by side, each in its own git worktree, so their edits stay apart until you merge. Coordigent is a coordination layer: it tells each agent which files the others are editing, warns before two of them edit the same file, and lets agents message each other, across worktrees, machines and everyone on your team. Conductor keeps agents apart; Coordigent lets them work on the same code without colliding. You can run both: agents Conductor starts are still Claude Code and Codex, and Coordigent picks them up.
The comparison below is from Conductor's public site and documentation as of November 2026. Check conductor.build (opens in a new tab) for anything that has changed since.
At a glance
| Conductor | Coordigent | Margin note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A desktop app that starts and manages agents | An MCP server, CLI and hooks added to the agents you already run | |
| How agents stay out of each other's way | Each workspace is its own git worktree and branch | Agents see which files are in use and are warned before editing a file another agent holds; nothing is locked | warned, not walled off |
| Agents | Claude Code and Codex | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, VS Code and other MCP clients | any MCP client |
| Platforms | macOS on Apple Silicon | macOS, Linux and Windows | three platforms, not one |
| Teammates' agents | Conductor Cloud adds workspaces teammates can follow and prompt | Every teammate's agents in one live view, with conflicts between them reaching both agents | both agents hear it |
| Agents talking to each other | Not the model: workspaces are isolated | coordigent.message.send, coord msg, Slack replies and handoffs | they can talk |
| Where you watch | Conductor's window | Terminal (coord), VS Code, the website and Slack |
Plate I. Conductor and Coordigent, side by side; red marks where Coordigent differs.
When Conductor is the better fit
- You work alone on a Mac and want one window to start, watch and merge several agents.
- The tasks you hand out never touch the same files, so isolation alone is enough.
- You want the app to set up worktrees, run scripts and open pull requests for you.
When Coordigent is the better fit
- Agents' work touches the same code: a refactor in one, a feature that calls the refactored code in another. Separate worktrees hide the conflict until merge; Coordigent shows it while it is happening (see Conflicts).
- More than one person runs agents on the same repo. Coordigent shows each teammate's agents and the files they hold, and an agent editing a file a teammate's agent holds is told who has it.
- You use more than one tool, or Linux or Windows.
- You want agents to hand work to each other instead of you copying context between windows (see Handoffs).
Using both
Coordigent counts a repo's worktrees as one repo (see Files in use), so two Conductor workspaces editing src/api.ts on different branches show up as a conflict before either is merged. Install Coordigent once on the Mac:
curl -fsSL https://coordigent.com/install | shThe installer links Claude Code and Codex at user level, so the agents Conductor starts get the Coordigent tools and hooks without changes to any workspace.