Codecast vs Conductor
Conductor runs a fleet of agents in parallel on one Mac. Codecast records and steers the sessions your whole team runs, on every machine.
Codecast is a team dashboard and memory for coding agent sessions: a daemon syncs every session your team runs — any supported agent, any machine — into one searchable, steerable record.
Conductor is a macOS app for running multiple Claude Code and Codex agents in parallel on your Mac, each in an isolated git worktree, with a dashboard for monitoring, review, and merging. Conductor’s site.
Side by side
| Codecast | Conductor | |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Records and steers the agent sessions you already run in your own terminals; adds a team layer on top | Launches and manages agent runs itself, in worktrees it creates on your Mac |
| Agents supported | Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini (OpenCode and pi in progress) | Claude Code and Codex |
| Where it runs | Daemon on every machine where agents run; clients on web, desktop, iOS | One macOS machine |
| Team visibility | Every teammate's sessions in one feed and inbox, with per-directory privacy controls | Single-user: your Mac, your runs |
| Search & memory | Full-text search across all past sessions; agents query team history themselves (cast search / cast ask) | Session history within the app for your local runs |
| Line-level attribution | cast blame traces any line of code to the conversation that wrote it | Not a goal; review happens per-run before merge |
| Remote steering | Web, desktop, and iOS apps; answer permission prompts from any device | On the Mac running it |
| Open source | MIT, self-hostable backend | Closed source |
Choose Conductor when
- You work solo on one Mac and mainly want to fan a feature out across parallel agents with clean worktree isolation.
- You want the tool itself to own launching, reviewing, and merging each run.
Choose Codecast when
- More than one person (or one machine) runs agents, and you want everyone's sessions visible in one place.
- You want a permanent, searchable record — and agents that can consult it — rather than a per-run workflow.
- You steer long-running sessions from your phone or another machine.
They compose: Conductor's runs are real Claude Code sessions, so a codecast daemon on the same Mac records them like any other session — Conductor for the parallel-run workflow, codecast for the team record.