| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 70 | 68 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 2 of 7 | No. 3 of 7 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 76 | 79 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 72 | 75 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 60 | 47 |
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| Community posts sampled | 18 | 12 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 12 | Crowd cooler by 28 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 15k | 41k |
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| npm weekly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported users | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 29 | 8 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not listed | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 6 | 3 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | A | B |
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| Permission model | B | n/e |
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| Data access scope | B | n/e |
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| Data storage | A | A |
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| Data retention & training | n/e | n/e |
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| Incident history | A | A |
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| Compliance | A | D |
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| Transparency | B | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free, paid from $20 | Free |
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| Plans | - Free: Free
- Pro: $20 / monthly
- Enterprise: Custom
| - Herdr runtime (open source): Free
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| Product |
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| Category | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses |
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| Maker | Superset Inc. | Herdr (Can Celik; YC F26) |
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| Licence | Elastic-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
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| Use it via | Desktop app, CLI, MCP server, API, Mobile app | CLI |
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| Runs on | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
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| Models it drives | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, any terminal-based coding agent | any terminal agent CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, Copilot, Grok, Hermes, Pi and others; 22 detected by default) |
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| Key features | - One git worktree, branch, terminal set and port range per workspace
- Runs any CLI coding agent unmodified in a persistent terminal (sessions survive app restarts via a background daemon)
- Built-in diff viewer, PR review and CI check view
- In-app browser pane with per-workspace port detection and a Design mode for UI edits
- Agent status sidebar with notifications when an agent needs attention
- Scheduled automations, CLI, TypeScript SDK and MCP server
- Remote access to workspaces on other machines and an iPhone app (Pro)
| - Workspaces, tabs and panes with mouse support and tmux-style detach/reattach
- Automatic agent state detection (working, blocked, done, idle) with notifications
- Remote machines over OpenSSH from one client window (v0.9.0+)
- Socket API and CLI for scripting agents, panes, workspaces and worktrees
- Plugin marketplace and custom popup panes
- Session history and restore stored locally
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Terminal-first design lets users run the real Claude Code/Codex CLIs with their latest features, which reviewers contrasted with Conductor's custom chat UI
- Supports many agents rather than one or two vendors
- Persistent terminals that survive app updates or closing were singled out by users
| - Users running many agents say it makes it easier to see which agent needs attention than plain tmux (HN comments, July-Sept 2026)
- Reconnect from several machines to the same running agents over SSH (HN, Bitdoze review)
- Reviewers credit the socket API for orchestration patterns tmux lacks (Bitdoze, Developers Digest)
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| Criticised for | - Some users reported terminal rendering glitches and freezes
- Reviewers and users found the PR/workspace flow less polished than Conductor and the UI growing 'bloated'
- Linear and some team features are gated behind the $20/user/month Pro plan; sign-in to the vendor cloud is required for the hosted build
- No Windows build; Linux build is experimental
| - Several users do not see the added value over tmux or zellij (HN, r/commandline)
- Reports of lag, rendering and hotkey issues, e.g. with many remote machines or under WSL (HN Sept 2026, r/ClaudeCode)
- Agent detection relies on screen manifests and is probabilistic for unsupported agents (Developers Digest)
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 5 | 4 |
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