Conductor is an orchestration tool from Melty Labs that lets a developer deploy and manage multiple Claude Code agents in parallel on their own machine. Its aim is described as making a small swarm of coding agents as easy to run as a single one. The name is noted as counterintuitive: despite being called Conductor, the tool belongs to the orchestrator side of the Conductor and Orchestrator Modes distinction rather than the conductor side.
Capabilities
Each agent runs in its own isolated Git worktree, which is how conflicts between agents working at the same time are avoided. A dashboard shows all running agents — described as seeing “who’s working on what” — and lets the developer review their code as they progress rather than only at the end.
Adoption & Ecosystem
The future of agentic coding: conductors to orchestrators presents Conductor as one of a set of emerging platforms and open-source projects for orchestrating several agents at once, grouping it with Claude Squad. It quotes one user, Juriy Zaytsev, a staff software engineer at LinkedIn, who described it as the option that made the most sense to him — “a perfect balance of talking to an agent and seeing my changes in a pane next to it” — and called its GitHub integration seamless, noting that a task showed as “Merged” immediately after a pull request was merged and offered an “Archive” button. That is one user’s account as relayed by the post, not a general evaluation.