Rating certificate · AW/26-09/28826 Sept 2026
Not enough evidence
The Register / Orchestrators & meta-harnesses / Claude Squad
Register entry · Orchestrators & meta-harnesses · updated 26 Sept 2026
Claude Squad
Claude Squad (`cs`) is an AGPL-3.0 terminal app that starts each task in its own tmux session and git worktree, so multiple CLI coding agents can work in parallel from one window. Users can review each instance's diff before committing or pushing, and an experimental auto-yes mode lets agents run unattended. It requires tmux and the GitHub CLI and installs via Homebrew or a shell script. Development continues at a slow pace (one release in the last 90 days).
What reviewers and users praise
- Small dependency footprint (one binary plus tmux and gh) and fits existing terminal workflows
- Isolated worktree per task with a review step before shipping
What they criticise
- Users describe it as buggy or 'janky' (lost prompts, stdin races, tmux session issues)
- No native Windows support (tmux/pty); a Windows binary fails at start
- TUI only and does not impose a structured workflow; AGPL-3.0 can be a blocker in companies
- Slow release cadence
Experts vs the crowdneeds both scores
Experts—
Crowd—
| Price | Free |
|---|---|
| Use it via | CLI |
| Runs on | macos, linux |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Updated | Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026 |
How the rating was worked out
Weights for Orchestrators & meta-harnesses: adoption 40%, experts 30%, crowd 30%. Fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. The method.
| Adoption & momentumweight 40% | 53 | GitHub stars 8.5k → 59 · 1 releases in 90 days → 40reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Expertsindependent reviews · weight 30% | — | No independent reviews found |
| Crowdcommunity sample · weight 30% | — | Only 5 community items sampled (6 needed) |
| Rating | — | Not rated: fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. |
Evidence checks. 1 review from tool directories, AI-written pages or unnamed authors not counted. 2 GitHub issues not counted as sentiment. How evidence is checked.
Trust & safety
Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: B.
B
Permission model
Agents run with their own permission prompts by default; auto-accept is an opt-in experimental flag (-y/--autoyes). No sandbox beyond git worktree separation. source
C
Data access scope
Each task gets a git worktree, but agents run as the user with normal filesystem access; scoping is not documented beyond the README. source
A
Data storage
Runs entirely locally (Go binary + tmux); no vendor service or account. source
n/e
Data retention & training
Local tool with no vendor data collection found (no telemetry code found in a repo search); model data handling is governed by the underlying agent. No policy exists to grade.
A
Incident history (24 months)
No GitHub security advisories or NVD CVEs found for claude-squad. June 2026 releases removed an unused go-git dependency with a transitive advisory and bumped the Go toolchain for GO-2026-4602 (dependency hygiene, not incidents). source
D
Compliance
Community open-source project; no attestations (N/A). source
A
Transparency
AGPL-3.0 source on GitHub with tagged releases. source
The experts
0 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.
- None found.
The crowd
5 coded posts from reddit, hackernews.
0 positive4 mixed1 negative
- negative
claude-commander: claude-squad was too janky
r/ClaudeCode · 4 Mar 2026 · reddit.com - mixed
have been using Claude Squad to manage worktrees which I'm finding make me go a bit fuzzy in terms of managing what's what because I can't see all my trees
r/ClaudeCode · 19 Jun 2026 · reddit.com - mixed
Claude Squad is great for parallelizing raw agents and interacting with them from a single terminal window. But as far as I know, it doesn't enforce any specific engineering workflow
HN comments · 30 Jun 2026 · news.ycombinator.com - mixed
I'm using claude-squad for the same purpose at the moment, will try this one out
HN comments · 8 Apr 2026 · news.ycombinator.com - mixed
Agor (tries to be a weird canvas board) and Claude Squad (TUI only), but none of those are quite what I'm looking for.
HN comments · 1 Apr 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
Pricing
As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open source | Free | Free under AGPL-3.0; agent/model subscriptions paid separately |
Recent changes
- 20 Aug 2026
v1.0.20: recover instances whose tmux session died with the server; record base commit for existing-branch sessions source
- 17 Jun 2026
v1.0.19: Go toolchain security bump and removal of an unused go-git dependency source
- 23 May 2026
v1.0.18: diff computed only for the selected instance; fixes for pause/dirty-state handling source
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Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.