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Charlieholtztoday at 12:33 AM3 repliesview on HN

Love to hear it! (Conductor founder here).

This is helpful to know - we're working on adding more agents, Copilot and OpenCode harnesses are among the most popular requests.

We also recently built an escape hatch. If you turn on Settings → Experimental → Big Terminal Mode you can create new terminals in the center panel (with ⌘⇧T) and use any agent you'd like (Copilot, OpenCode, etc). It isn't the best experience because you don't get notifications etc (yet), but at least it lets you use the harness you'd like until we build out the first-class UI for it.

Send me feedback anytime, I'm [email protected].


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Atotalnoobtoday at 2:24 AM

I’m interested in these types of tools, but the biggest issue I am currently having in my workflow is manually verifying everything is working. Tests and stuff are nice, but typically if there is a bug, the AI agents enshrine it in th tests.

However with worktrees I am not really able to easily copy secrets, etc to run my app, ports conflict, I end up with a bunch of separate dbs and services, etc.

Does conductor help with this? Have you all found any useful ways of making this easier or more automated?

BowBuntoday at 2:25 AM

Howdy, love your product. My coworker and I have literally been begging our coworkers to give it a try. To me, it was the key tool to 'get it' (coming from Cursor) when going from single threaded agentic dev to parallel agentic dev. Please keep up the great work.

atonsetoday at 1:13 AM

I was an early user of conductor and used it a lot (like from maybe oct to Jan). But then there was some bug where maybe it wouldn’t release file descriptors or something where my laptop needed to be rebooted twice a day. So I stopped using it months ago.

But I’ve tried to reinstall it since and it just gets stuck in a weird infinite loop.

I liked conductor though. Hope you are able to fix those bugs and I can try again in a few weeks.