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It's basically what Emdash (https://www.emdash.sh/), Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/) & CO have been building but as first class product from OpenAI.

Begs the question if Anthropic will follow up with a first-class Claude Code "multi agent" (git worktree) app themselves.

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https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop

oh i didn't know that claude code has a desktop app already

It isn’t its own app, but it’s built in to their desktop, mobile and web apps.

And it uses worktrees.

I never heard of Emdash before and I am following on AI tools closely. It just shows you how much noise there is and how hard is to promote the apps. Emdash looks solid. I almost went to build something similar because I wasn't aware of it.

I am not sure if multi agent approach is what it is hyped up to be. As long we are working on parallel work streams with defined contracts (say an agreed upon API def that backend implements and frontend uses), I'd assume that running independent agent coding sessions is faster and in fact more desirable so that neither side bends the code to comply with under specified contracts.

Usually I find the hype is centered around creating software no one cares about. If you're creating a prototype for dozens of investors to demo - I seriously doubt you'd take the "mainstream" approach.

Maybe a dumb question on my side; but if you are using a GUI like emdash with Claude Code, are you getting the full claude code harness under the hood or are you "just" leveraging the model ?

Emdash is inducing CC, Codex, etc. natively. Therefore users are getting the raw version of each agent.

I can answer for Conductor: you're getting the full Claude Code, it's just a GUI wrapper on top of CC. It makes it easy to create worktrees (1 click) and manage them.

I don't think this is true. Try running `/skills` or `/context` in both and you'll see.

Hey, Conductor founder here. Conductor is built on Anthropic's Agents SDK, which exposes most (but not all) of Claude Code's features.

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

Thanks for clarifying, just wanted to point out it's not 1 to 1 with CC. Happy user of Conductor here btw, great product!

yeah, I wanted a better terminal for operating many TUI agent's at once and none of these worked because they all want to own the agent.

I ended up building a terminal[0] with Tauri and xterm that works exactly how I want.

0 - screenshot: https://x.com/thisritchie/status/2016861571897606504?s=20

looks like we both did haha: https://github.com/saadnvd1/aTerm

until then, the https://CommanderAI.app tries to fill the gap on Mac

They have Claude Code web in research preview

It still doesn't support plan mode... I'm really confused why that's so hard to do

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