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Conductor Shutting Down After Meta Deal: Key Dates and How to Keep Your Work

Conductor joined Meta: Cloud goes read-only Nov 13 and shuts down Nov 20, 2026. Official export steps, refund details, and parallel-agent alternatives.

T Terapep ·

Meta has acquired Conductor, the Mac app that runs several coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and others) side by side in separate workspaces. The cloud product closes this month, and the local app winds down in early 2027. This guide covers the dates, what you need to do before each one, and which tools offer parallel agents today. It only uses Conductor's own announcement, official product docs and named news reports.

Last checked: November 6, 2026.

TL;DR

  • Nov 4, 2026: Conductor announced it is joining Meta. New users can no longer sign up or download the app. Existing Pro users keep Pro features for free, and free users can no longer upgrade (Conductor announcement).
  • Fri, Nov 13: Conductor Cloud becomes read-only. You can still read old chats and export data, but you can't send new messages (announcement; changelog 0.93.0).
  • Fri, Nov 20: Conductor Cloud shuts down and Conductor starts deleting Cloud user data (announcement; also reported by TechCrunch).
  • Refunds: Conductor's FAQ says "Active subscribers will get a refund." It gives no date for the payment.
  • Local Mac app: It keeps getting new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, then winds down. Conductor says it will delete all user data at that point (announcement).

The Nov 13 read-only date is more than one outlet's report. It appears in Conductor's own announcement and changelog, and SiliconANGLE reported it too. TechCrunch's article mentions only the Nov 20 cloud shutdown.

Dated checklist

When What to do Source
Before Nov 13 Finish any running Cloud tasks. After Nov 13, Cloud workspaces can't take new messages. Announcement
Before Nov 13 (ideally) Right-click each Cloud workspace and choose Transfer to local to move the workspace and its chats to your Mac. Announcement, changelog 0.93.0
Before Nov 20 Download your data from Settings → Account → Export data. Conductor says to export "before this date." Announcement
Before Nov 20 Push the branches you care about to your Git remote (see below). Conductor docs: Git worktrees
After Nov 20 Cloud is gone and Cloud data deletion has started. The local app still works. Announcement
Before early 2027 Move your daily workflow to another tool. Conductor plans to delete all user data when the app shuts down. Announcement
Questions Email support@conductor.build. Changelog 0.93.0

Conductor says Transfer to local and Export data both work during the read-only window. Still, doing them before Nov 13 leaves you time to fix a failed transfer while the Cloud is fully working. That timing advice is ours, not Conductor's.

What happens to the local app

According to the announcement, the local Conductor app keeps receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, and then begins winding down. Two details matter:

  • No new installs. Signups and downloads stopped on Nov 4. Keep your existing install, because you can't download it again.
  • Data deletion in early 2027. The FAQ says Conductor will delete all user data when the app shuts down in early 2027. It gives no exact date.

The team has also hinted at a new product. TechCrunch quotes CEO Charlie Holtz teasing "something new" by early next year. Neither Conductor nor Meta has said what it will be, and SiliconANGLE notes the new interface hasn't been described. Nothing published so far says it will support the agents Conductor supports today.

The 0.93.0 release (Nov 4) still added features, including GPT-6.1 Terra in the Codex model picker. Archived Cloud workspaces now show their PRs, last known changes and file tree (changelog).

How to keep your work

1. Cloud workspaces: Transfer to local

This is Conductor's documented path for Cloud users. Right-click a Cloud workspace and choose Transfer to local. This moves the workspace and its chats onto your Mac (announcement). Repeat for each Cloud workspace you want to keep, before Nov 20.

2. Everything: Export data

Go to Settings → Account → Export data to download all your data (announcement). Conductor hasn't documented the file format or what the export contains. Check the download before you rely on it.

3. Your code: it's already in Git

Conductor's docs say each workspace is a Git worktree. Conductor creates one "for that workspace and checks out a branch inside it." Workspaces are "usually created under ~/conductor/workspaces/<repo name>/<workspace name>" (Conductor docs: Git worktrees). Per the docs, each workspace maps to one branch, and the branch is the usual unit for review and PRs (Workspaces and branches).

The docs say you can push to origin from the Conductor UI or the terminal, but they don't give step-by-step instructions. General Git practice (not Conductor-specific): in each workspace folder, commit what you want to keep and push the branch to your remote. Untracked and gitignored files aren't part of a branch. The docs say a new worktree doesn't bring untracked or gitignored files along. Copy any local .env files or similar separately.

What we could not confirm

  • What the Export data download contains, or its format.
  • Whether the Conductor iOS app (released in 0.90.0) keeps working after Cloud shuts down.
  • When refunds are paid, and whether you need to do anything to get one.
  • Any user-reported migration steps on Hacker News or Reddit. We searched and found no thread with additional verified steps.

Alternatives for running parallel agents

These tools officially document running several coding agents at once in isolated checkouts. We list only features stated in each vendor's own docs, and the list isn't ranked. Note that Conductor ran these vendors' agents on your own subscriptions and keys (SiliconANGLE), so you may already pay for one of them.

Tool (maker) Parallel feature Isolation Source
Claude Code (Anthropic) claude --worktree <name> starts an isolated parallel session, one per terminal. claude agents opens agent view, one screen for your background sessions. Each worktree is a separate checkout on its own branch. Background sessions move into their own worktree under .claude/worktrees/ before editing files. Common workflows, Agent view
Claude Code subagents (Anthropic) "Background subagents run concurrently while you continue working." Each subagent has its own context window. An optional isolation: worktree setting runs a subagent in a temporary Git worktree. Subagents
Cursor Agents Window (Cursor) Run many agents at once, mainly in the cloud. Hand a task to a cloud agent with /in-cloud. Agents can work in "isolated Git checkouts." Agents Window docs
Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app (OpenAI) Run multiple independent chats in the same project. Managed worktrees under $CODEX_HOME/worktrees by default. Git worktrees, App docs

A few points of comparison:

  • Closest to Conductor's layout: Claude Code's agent view and Cursor's Agents Window each show many agents on one screen. Codex runs parallel chats in the ChatGPT desktop app.
  • Cloud vs local: Cursor documents moving agents between cloud and local. Claude Code's worktree and agent-view features run on your machine.
  • Mixing vendors: Conductor's main draw was running agents from several labs in one window. Each tool above is built around its own vendor's agent.

FAQ

Is Conductor shutting down? Partly, for now. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on Nov 13 and shuts down on Nov 20, 2026. The local Mac app keeps getting new models and critical fixes until early 2027, then winds down (announcement). New signups and downloads stopped on Nov 4.

Will I get a refund? Conductor's FAQ says active subscribers will get a refund. It doesn't say when the refund is paid or whether you need to request it. For account-specific questions, email support@conductor.build.

Can I still use Conductor locally? Yes, if it's already installed. It keeps receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. You can't download it again, because downloads stopped on Nov 4 (announcement).

What is the best Conductor alternative? It depends on which agents you use. Claude Code (by Anthropic), Cursor's Agents Window and Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app all document parallel agents with Git worktree isolation (see the table above). If you rely on Conductor's ability to run several vendors' agents in one window, check each tool's docs for multi-vendor support. None of the docs we read describe it.

Does Meta acquiring Conductor affect my code or data? Your code lives in Git worktrees and branches in your own repository, which you control (Conductor docs). Conductor-held data is a separate matter. Deletion of Cloud data starts Nov 20, and all Conductor user data is to be deleted when the app shuts down in early 2027. The FAQ says "We have never sold or trained on Conductor user data, and we still won't" (announcement). Meta confirmed the deal to TechCrunch but declined to comment further (TechCrunch). Meta hasn't published anything about how Conductor data will be handled.

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#conductor#meta#claude code#openai codex#cursor#ai coding agents#git worktrees#developer tools
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