Sokudo vs Conductor
Both run coding agents in parallel Git worktrees with diff review. Sokudo adds named personas, a Kanban board with a reviewer, a Wiki Engine, and a harness that learns from finished runs and proposes rules for your approval. On November 4, 2026, Conductor announced it is joining Meta and winding down.
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Pick Sokudo
When parallel agents need roles, reviews, and a memory.
Delegate tickets to named agents with their own roles, instructions, and models, each implementation agent in its own worktree, with a reviewer before anything ships. Give every agent the same Wiki Engine, knowledge base, rules, and memory, and let finished runs propose rules for your approval. Design on the canvas, query the database, and open SSH sessions beside the code.
Pick Conductor
Parallel agents on your Mac, for as long as it is maintained.
Conductor runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode in isolated Git worktrees on your Mac, with a diff viewer, agent review, checks, and pull requests. Its November 4, 2026 announcement says it is joining Meta: sign-ups and downloads stopped that day, Conductor Cloud ends on November 20, and the Mac app gets new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027.
Where Sokudo pulls ahead.
Both run several coding agents at once, each task in its own Git worktree, and both put the changes in front of you before they merge. The differences are what surrounds the work and what Conductor has announced for its future. Here is what each product describes.
| Criterion | Sokudo | Conductor |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | An IDE with agents, design, data, and browser tools in one workspace. | A Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode in parallel, each task with its own workspace, branch, diff, and review path. [5] |
| Current status | In public beta and open to new users. | Joining Meta. No new sign-ups or downloads since November 4, 2026. Conductor Cloud: read-only November 13, shuts down November 20, 2026. The Mac app: new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. [3] |
| Orchestration | Delegate tickets across providers, with implementation agents in their own worktrees and a reviewer. | One Git worktree and branch per workspace, so agents work in parallel; several agents can also share one workspace on the same branch. [8] |
| Personas | Custom agent roles, instructions, and model choices. | Each chat picks a harness and a model, and Codex sessions can use a personality. Named personas or roles are not described. [12] |
| Work tracking | Kanban tickets, dependencies, and worker review in the IDE. | Workspaces start from a branch, pull request, or GitHub or Linear issue, and a Checks tab gathers CI, review comments, and todos before merge. [9] |
| Wiki Engine | Citation-backed Pages and an interactive Graph of your codebase, read by you and your agents. | A generated codebase wiki is not described in Conductor’s docs. [5] |
| Project context | A workspace knowledge base, rules, and memory that agents draw on in later sessions. | Repository Settings hold standing instructions for agents, reviews, and pull requests; conventions live in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and skills, and task notes in .context. A Conductor-managed knowledge base or memory store is not described. [12] |
| Self-improving harness | Finished runs can save learnings to the knowledge base and propose rules that wait for your approval. | A post-run learning loop is not described in Conductor’s docs or changelog. [13] |
| Design canvas | Design screens and hand the canvas to agents in the same workspace. | A design canvas is not described. In the browser preview, you can annotate the running page and attach the notes to the chat. [14] |
| Database | Inspect schemas and query data in the database manager. | A built-in database client is not described. MCP servers can give agents database access. [15] |
| Remote work | Remote SSH sessions and commands alongside the workspace. | Conductor Cloud runs agents in Linux sandboxes you can open over SSH, until its announced November 20, 2026 shutdown. Local workspaces run on your Mac. [16] |
| Browser | An in-app browser with extension support for previews and wallet flows. | An in-app browser preview for your local dev server, launched as experimental. Browser extensions are not described. [14] |
“Not described” means the cited Conductor pages do not document an equivalent feature; it does not prove the feature is impossible. “Experimental” is Conductor’s own label. Dates are as announced by Conductor on November 4, 2026. Sokudo capabilities: [1].
Open Sokudo when the job is bigger than a branch.
Choose Sokudo if
- You delegate to named agents with distinct roles, instructions, and models.
- You want tickets, dependencies, implementation, and review on one Kanban board.
- You want every agent to start from a shared codebase wiki, knowledge base, rules, and memory.
- You want finished runs to save learnings and propose rules for you to approve.
- You want a design canvas, a database manager, and SSH sessions built into the IDE.
Choose Conductor if
- You already run Conductor on your Mac and are comfortable with its announced timeline: new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027.
- Your team’s flow is built on its diff viewer, Checks tab, and pull-request actions, and you plan to stay until it winds down.
- You still have Conductor Cloud workspaces to transfer to your Mac or export before November 20, 2026.
- You want to wait for what the Conductor team ships next, which its announcement expects early next year.
What you actually get.
Straight answers about Sokudo and Conductor.
What is the difference between Sokudo and Conductor?
Both run several coding agents in separate Git worktrees and put the diff in front of you before you merge. Conductor is a Mac app built around that loop: a workspace per task, a diff viewer, agent review, checks, and pull requests. On November 4, 2026, it announced that it is joining Meta and winding down. Sokudo builds the workplace around the agents: named personas, a Kanban board with dependencies and review, a Wiki Engine, a knowledge base, rules, and memory, a design canvas, a database manager, and remote SSH.
Is Conductor shutting down?
In stages, according to its November 4, 2026 announcement that Conductor is joining Meta. New sign-ups and app downloads stopped that day. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13, 2026 and shuts down on November 20, 2026, when Conductor begins deleting Cloud user data. The local Mac app keeps working and gets new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, when it starts winding down. Sokudo last checked these dates on November 9, 2026.
Can I move my Conductor work to Sokudo?
Your code, yes; your Conductor chats, not directly. Conductor workspaces are Git worktrees on branches of your own repository, so pushed branches and pull requests stay with your Git host. Open the repository in Sokudo and continue from them. Sokudo does not import Conductor workspaces, chats, or settings. To keep a copy, use Conductor’s Settings → Account → Export data, and Transfer to local for Cloud workspaces before Cloud shuts down.
Can both tools run agents in parallel?
Yes. Conductor gives each workspace its own Git worktree and branch and runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode side by side; several agents can also share one workspace on the same branch. Sokudo delegates tickets to a roster of agents with roles, instructions, and models, runs implementation agents in their own worktrees, and keeps review as a separate step on the board.
What is the Sokudo Wiki Engine?
The Wiki Engine maps your project into citation-backed Pages and an interactive Graph of files, dependencies, and modules. You use it to understand the architecture and how modules fit together. Your agents can search and read the same pages, so people and agents work from one shared guide to the codebase.
How does Sokudo keep project context for agents?
Each Sokudo workspace has three context stores. The knowledge base holds reference material such as architecture notes and conventions. Rules hold the instructions agents should follow. Memory holds durable decisions, preferences, and gotchas, found by meaning rather than keywords. Agents draw on all three in later sessions. Conductor uses Repository Settings for standing agent, review, and pull-request instructions, plus files such as AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, skills, and per-workspace notes in .context; its docs do not describe a Conductor-managed knowledge base or memory store.
How does self-improvement work in Sokudo?
When self-improvement is on for a workspace, Sokudo reviews each delegated run after its agents finish. When a run produces something worth keeping, Sokudo saves it to the knowledge base or proposes a rule, and marks the entry as written by an agent. A proposed rule does not take effect until you approve it, and you can turn the feature off for any workspace. It changes the context your agents receive; it does not retrain any model.
When should I keep using Conductor?
Keep using Conductor if it already runs on your Mac and its announced timeline suits you: new models and critical bug fixes for the local app until early 2027. New users can no longer sign up or download it, and Conductor Cloud shuts down on November 20, 2026. Choose Sokudo when you want named agents, tickets with review, shared project knowledge, a design canvas, and a database manager in one workplace.
The workplace, not the window.
Give each agent a persona. Keep the board, the canvas, the database, the remote machine, and the browser in Sokudo.