Reviews: 10 tools for running coding agents together

• band-desktop.md

  #018.3

  BAND for desktop

  Agents from different vendors handing off work in shared rooms, locally

  Editor's pickLocal
• devin-desktop.md

  #027.8

  Devin Desktop

  One IDE managing local and cloud agents, including Devin's own coordinator

  Local + cloud
• conductor.md

  #036.6

  Conductor

  Parallel Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode runs on a Mac, with a clean review path

  Local + cloud
• nimbalyst.md

  #045.7

  Nimbalyst

  A free, open-source visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex sessions

  LocalOpen source
• claude-code-agent-teams.md

  #055.7

  Claude Code agent teams

  Claude-only teams with a lead, shared task list and direct messages

  ExperimentalLocal
• sculptor.md

  #065.4

  Sculptor

  Free, open-source parallel agents in local containers (research preview)

  LocalOpen sourceExperimental
• github-copilot-agent-hq.md

  #075.2

  GitHub Copilot + Agent HQ

  Issue-to-PR work assigned to several agents inside GitHub

  Cloud
• openai-codex.md

  #084.8

  OpenAI Codex

  OpenAI-only parallel tasks across CLI, desktop app and cloud

  Local + cloudOpen source (CLI)
• factory.md

  #094.7

  Factory

  Plan-driven Missions run by an orchestrator with Factory's own Droids

  Local + cloud
• cursor.md

  #104.5

  Cursor

  Parallel cloud agents and best-of-n runs inside an IDE you already use

  Local + cloud

Buzz (Block), buzz.xyz

An open-source desktop workspace from Block, in Developer Preview, where people and agents share communities with channels, threads and DMs. Coding agents join through an ACP harness (Goose, Codex, Claude Code), and each agent has its own keys. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, on a relay you operate or, during early access, on Block-hosted relays that were free with published limits (5 GB media, 365-day retention, 5 communities) when we read buzz.xyz/support on 2026-08-19. Loop prevention and crash recovery are not documented. Not scored because agent-to-agent handoff behaviour and setup effort are not documented in the sources we read.

Sources (read 2026-08-19)

• Buzz
• Block: Buzz repository
• Buzz: support