AI Orchestrators Decision Table
An attempt to find a good agent orchestrator or two, that can support these styles of software AI dev:
- Mostly AI assisted coding (currently leading: conductor)
- Mostly vibe coding (currently exploring configuring pi from scratch)
Ideally one tool could be used for both.
Leave any suggestions in the comments please, all are welcome.
| Feature | conductor | emdash | superset | agor | Maestro | opencode | JAT | pi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worktrees | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Task overview | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Line comments | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Github PRs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Claude TOS | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| opencode | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| pi | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multi-agent workflows | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multi-agent conversations | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Shared config | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Legend
- Worktrees - Support for worktrees per task, with setup/teardown scripts
- Task overview - Ability to see all tasks from all projects in one place
- Line comments - Convenient UX for leaving code review line comments locally
- Github PRs - Convenient UX for creating and reviewing Github PRs
- Claude TOS - Ability to use Claude subscription while adhering to Anthropic TOS
- opencode - Ability to run opencode agents
- pi - Ability to run pi agents
- Multi-agent workflows - Automate multiple proprietary and open CLIs into workflows
- Multi-agent conversations - UI for talking to multiple agents at once
- Shared config - Ability to reuse agents and skills across different CLIs (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, opencode), when running them inside the orchestrator