Agent orchestrators (Conductor, Vibe Kanban) vs team memory
By Soumen Sarkar · October 2026
Comparison. If you want to run many coding agents at once and review what each made, use an orchestrator such as Conductor or Claude Squad. If your team's agents keep building on calls the others never heard about, use team memory. Most teams running agents in parallel have both problems.
What are you trying to fix?
An orchestrator runs many agents for one person. Team memory keeps many people, and all their agents, working from the same calls. If you want five agents going at once and one place to review them, use an orchestrator. If your agents, or your teammates' agents, keep contradicting each other, use team memory. Most teams running agents in parallel have both problems.
- "I want several agents working at once, and I want to see and merge what each one made." An orchestrator. Conductor runs Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents side by side on a Mac, each in its own workspace, and you review and merge from one window. Claude Squad does the same from the terminal, with a tmux session and a git worktree per agent.
- "I want a board of tasks, each one handed to an agent." Vibe Kanban puts issues on a kanban board and gives each agent a workspace with a branch, a terminal and a dev server, with inline comments on the diff.
- "My agents never touch the same file, but my teammate's agents still undo our calls." Team memory. What one session decided reaches the next one before it edits that part of the code.
- "We tried to wire our agents together ourselves, and the glue became the project." Team memory. One plugin and one MCP server, instead of scripts that copy notes between sessions.
The same day, with each
This is a scene, not a customer: three developers and a PM on a normal Tuesday. Ana and Ravi each run an orchestrator, with four agents apiece.
In the morning Ravi's agents pick up three tasks from his board. One of them adds retries to the webhook sender and decides that a failed delivery is retried five times, then dropped. Across the room, Ana's agent is building the admin page that shows failed webhooks. It assumes failures are kept forever, so it builds a "retry now" button.
With orchestrators alone, both developers have a good morning. Each agent works in its own worktree, nothing collides, and each diff reads well in review. Both merge. On Thursday the PM clicks "retry now" on a webhook the sender already dropped, and nothing happens. Somebody spends an afternoon finding out why. Neither orchestrator could show Ana what Ravi's agent had decided.
With orchestrators and team memory, the same agents run the same way. The difference comes the first time Ana's agent reads the webhook code. A hook gives it an area brief: Ravi's retry work in progress, and the decision to drop after five tries, with its reason. Ana's agent builds the button for the window that exists. Where it is still unsure whether dropped webhooks should be kept for the PM, it records an assumption instead of stopping. The PM answers from a link, and the agent has her answer at its next turn.
At the end of the day, the orchestrators gave each developer eight agents' worth of work, reviewed from one place. Team memory gave the team one webhook story instead of two.
When an orchestrator is the better choice
Often. Campfyrr doesn't run, start or orchestrate agents at all.
- You work alone, on tasks that don't overlap. A worktree per task and a careful review may be all you need.
- Your pain is agents colliding in one checkout. Worktrees fix that, and orchestrators set them up for you. Campfyrr doesn't isolate files.
- Your pain is reviewing many diffs. Orchestrators show every agent's diff in one place and let you comment and merge. Campfyrr doesn't review code or show a whole session as a transcript.
A note on Vibe Kanban: its company shut down on 10 April 2026, saying most users were free and it found no business model. The project carries on as open source and community maintained, local workspaces keep working, and the team features (issues, comments, projects and organisations) were removed.
What it costs
Claude Squad is open source and free (GitHub). Vibe Kanban is open source under Apache-2.0 and free (GitHub). Conductor's prices come from search summaries of its pricing page, so confirm before buying (Conductor pricing): local workspaces on a Mac are free, Pro is $50 a month, and Teams is $60 per user a month for five or more. For 5 developers on Conductor Teams, five times sixty is $300 a month; business teammates usually don't need an orchestrator seat.
Campfyrr is $9 per developer a month, minimum 3, or $7 billed yearly; business teammates who read and answer are free (pricing). For 5 developers and 3 business teammates, five times nine is $45 a month, or $35 billed yearly. Everything is free during early access.
The cost that matters more is people's time. With orchestrators alone, each developer starts, watches, reviews and merges their agents, and is the only link between their agents and everyone else's. With team memory, each developer installs the plugin once. After that, the daily job is answering an assumption when one is sent to you.
Verdict
Choose an orchestrator if you want many agents running at once, kept out of each other's files, and reviewed from one window. Conductor for a Mac app, Claude Squad for the terminal.
Choose Campfyrr if your team's sessions keep building on calls the others never heard about (sessions don't know about each other), or the glue you built to keep agents in step became its own project (Claude across every system). See what a session gets.
Use both if several people on a team each run parallel agents. The orchestrator keeps each person's agents apart; team memory keeps everyone's decisions together. More in Campfyrr vs Conductor and git worktrees vs shared memory. Every product in this space is reviewed in our research.
The problem this answers: Sessions don't know about each other: "My teammates' Claude Code sessions don't know what each other are doing."
The principle behind this: Build on what's coming: Unfinished work is a promise, and a promise can be built on.
Move as one at agent speed. Nobody waits. Add Campfyrr to Claude: it briefs every agent before it touches the code, keeps assumptions and handoffs where the team can see them, and never takes your code (what it keeps).