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At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas.

Could you share a comparison with the other tools out there?

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For me the greatest difference is that superset is terminal-centric while conductor is chat-centric.

GUIs slow you down, in my opinion. But having the nice visual diff is something we can't really do well in TUIs, so very welcome.

So, superset, for me (been using for quite some time now) is basically to organize my agent and terminal sessions per task and project.

I can switch context much easier and can also resume working on something days later, with all my tabs nicely available and separated.

This was consuming me before, a dozen or more tabs and windows in my computer that I don't really remember to which task each belongs to.

Note that Anthropic specifically called out that usage through Conductor will be metered as "programmatic usage" in their June 15th pricing change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126438

My colleagues are planning to get around this by using Conductor's big terminal mode. At which point I think it's basically just a git worktree manager?

If you want to do that you mine as well give Superset a try, we've put a lot of time into giving a good terminal experience, with baked in notifications and a daemon that runs in the background so your terminal sessions dont die when the app updates or closes.

Nice work Avi, you got a user out of this message, at least for now. The background service keeping the terminals alive is lovely stuff.

I don’t see any specific mention of Conductor, is this confirmed?

yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you like the chat experience conductor is still a bit more polished, we'll get to that level of polish soon, but if you care more about the terminal and cloud and more new integrations we are shipping superset is better.

Very excited about the remote workspaces! Perfect for me as I've set up a remote Mac as a Claude terminal. I know it's only just released but the typing is quite laggy... have you considered something like mosh? I've been using this from the terminal and it makes it feel as fast as running locally.

When you say “terminal first”, are you terminal-first enough that I could use vim buffers for editing?

yes, it's essentially a terminal with extra agent hooks tracked and more customized review flow. if it runs in a terminal it runs in Superset.

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