Guide
A Conductor alternative for Windows
Conductor popularised a simple idea: every coding agent gets its own git worktree, and you review the diffs side by side. It is a Mac app. The idea is not.
What the workflow actually is
Strip the app away and the workflow has four parts: a worktree per task, an agent CLI running in each, a way to see which ones are working or waiting, and a diff to review before merging. None of that is macOS-specific — git worktrees and the agent CLIs run on Windows.
Option 1: by hand
git worktree add per task, one Windows Terminal tab per worktree, claude or codex in each, and git diff before merging. It works and it is free. It stops being pleasant around the third task, when you are tracking which tab is which branch and cleaning up worktrees by memory.
Option 2: WSL
Running the whole toolchain inside WSL gives you a Linux environment where more tools assume they are at home. The cost is a second filesystem: repositories that live on the Windows side are slow to work on from WSL, and editors, credentials and paths now exist twice.
Option 3: a native workspace
Nix Agents is a native Windows agent development environment (x64 and ARM64) built for this workflow: each session gets its own git worktree and a real ConPTY terminal, sessions sit on one board, and each diff is reviewed before merge. It runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI and other agent CLIs as themselves, with your own logins — no API keys of its own. It is in free beta.
Questions
- Is Conductor available for Windows?
- Conductor is built for macOS. Check its own site for current platform support; this page is about running the same workflow on Windows.
- Do I need WSL to run Claude Code or Codex in parallel on Windows?
- Not for the workflow itself — git worktrees work natively on Windows. Check each agent CLI’s own documentation for its current Windows support.