What happened on 4 November 2026?
Conductor, the Mac app for running several coding agents at once, announced that it is joining Meta. Its maker is Melty, Inc., as Conductor’s privacy policy and App Store listing name it (its terms of service say Melty Labs, Inc.). TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE reported the acquisition the same day; the terms were not disclosed. Conductor stopped new sign-ups and downloads of its Mac app immediately. Free users can no longer upgrade, and Pro subscribers keep their paid features at no charge.
What happens to Conductor Cloud?
From Friday 13 November 2026, cloud workspaces are read-only: old chats can be read and data exported, but no new messages sent, and active subscribers get refunds. From Friday 20 November 2026, Conductor Cloud is shut down and Conductor deletes the data users stored there.
Conductor’s announcement gives two ways out: right-click a cloud workspace and choose Transfer to local to move it and its chats to your Mac, or use Settings → Account → Export data to download everything. Conductor has not said whether transfers work once the cloud is read-only, so the safe deadline for them is 13 November 2026. How to export your Conductor workspaces walks through it.
What happens to the local Conductor Mac app?
Copies already installed keep working, and keep getting new models and critical bug fixes, until early 2027. Then the app winds down: updates stop and Conductor deletes the app’s user data. Conductor has not given an exact date. Because Mac app downloads stopped on 4 November 2026, you cannot install Conductor on a new or reset Mac.
What should I do, and by when?
| When | What to do |
|---|---|
| By 13 November 2026, when Cloud is read-only | Move cloud workspaces to your Mac with “Transfer to local”, or export them. Read-only cloud chats can be read and exported, not continued. |
| By 20 November 2026, when cloud data is deleted | Export anything left in Conductor Cloud (Settings → Account → Export data). |
| While Conductor still runs | Install a replacement and import your local workspaces, so you can compare the two side by side. |
| By early 2027 | Make sure every branch you care about is committed and pushed. Your worktrees are ordinary git, so the work itself does not depend on Conductor. |
Are my branches and worktrees safe?
Conductor’s workspaces are git worktrees (its documentation says so), so your branches and commits live in your own repositories, not in Conductor. Uncommitted changes exist only in the worktree folders, so commit what you want to keep before you archive or delete anything.
Where can I move?
microManager is a free app for macOS, Windows and Linux built to take over from Conductor’s local
app: it reads
.conductor/settings.toml and conductor.json, sets the CONDUCTOR_*
environment variables your scripts expect, and on a Mac imports your repositories, workspaces and chats in one click
without moving anything. The migration guide walks through it, and
the alternatives page compares other tools, each checked against its own site.