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title: Orchestration
created: 2026-09-24
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status: in progress
tags: [agents, orchestration]
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Running many coding agents at once: worktree managers, kanbans, terminal multiplexers, dashboards, and the mobile clients that supervise them from anywhere.

- [AX](ax/index.md) - Google's Kubernetes-native orchestrator that runs agent tasks, workspaces, and network gates as declarative cluster manifests, the category's first datacenter-scale control plane.
- [Claude Squad](claude-squad/index.md) - free AGPL terminal app running multiple coding agents in tmux, each in its own worktree.
- [cmux](cmux/index.md) - Manaflow's libghostty macOS terminal for parallel agents, notification rings free, cloud execution paid (Pro $50, Max $200 monthly).
- [Conductor](conductor/index.md) - the macOS app for parallel Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode sessions with diff review and PR flow.
- [Crystal](crystal/index.md) - Stravu's worktree manager, deprecated February 2026 for Nimbalyst, kept here as a death record.
- [dmux](dmux/index.md) - the MIT tmux TUI where every task pane gets its own worktree and branch.
- [Emdash](emdash/index.md) - the Apache-2.0 agentic development environment from General Action (YC W26), local or over SSH.
- [Foremerge](foremerge/index.md) - the Apache-2.0 protocol where parallel agents publish what they are about to change before they change it, catching the plan collisions Git merges without complaint, from GPTree's internal tooling.
- [Gas Town](gastown/index.md) - Steve Yegge's tmux town of 20-30 supervised agents, shut down in September 2026 after Yegge admitted he never successfully built anything with it, kept as the category's cautionary record.
- [Happy Coder](happy-coder/index.md) - the MIT encrypted mobile client wrapping Claude Code and Codex sessions, 23.8k stars, second only to cmux in the category.
- [JetBrains Air](jetbrains-air/index.md) - the standalone agentic environment running Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie in parallel, isolated per task and bundled with the AI subscription.
- [Omnara](omnara/index.md) - the YC S25 Apache-2.0 Go control plane where agents are YAML and supervision happens from dashboard, phone, CLI, API, or Slack.
- [Paseo](paseo/index.md) - the open-source daemon driving coding agents from desktop, web, and native mobile apps, self-hosted and solo-maintained.
- [Superset](superset/index.md) - the YC-backed, source-available agentic IDE running parallel CLI agents in worktrees on your own subscriptions.
- [Vibe Kanban](vibe-kanban/index.md) - the Apache-2.0 kanban for parallel agents, orphaned by Bloop's April 2026 shutdown, community commits resumed in September 2026 but still no release.
- [Worktrunk](worktrunk/index.md) - the Rust `wt` CLI making worktrees as easy as branches, with lifecycle hooks and a one-command merge.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the [Orchestration Feature Matrix](orchestration-feature-matrix/index.md).

## Changes

- 2026-08-24 - Added Claude Squad.
- 2026-08-24 - Added cmux.
- 2026-08-24 - Added Conductor.
- 2026-08-24 - Added Crystal.
- 2026-08-24 - Added dmux.
- 2026-08-24 - Added Emdash.
- 2026-08-24 - Added Vibe Kanban.
- 2026-08-27 - Added Gas Town.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Omnara.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Paseo.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Superset.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Worktrunk.
- 2026-09-06 - Added Happy Coder.
- 2026-09-12 - Added JetBrains Air.
- 2026-09-21 - Added AX.
- 2026-09-22 - Added Foremerge.