Meta has bought a tool that runs coding agents built by its rivals

Conductor lets a developer start several coding agents at once, each in its own parallel workspace, and the agents it runs come from labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI. It was founded in 2024 and launched its core product in summer 2025, so it's a young company by any measure.

Meta launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August. Buying the layer that coordinates other labs' agents alongside it suggests Meta sees value in where the work gets organised as well as in the model doing the typing.

I find that a useful way to look at the whole category. As individual agents get more capable, the harder problem for a team becomes everything around them: splitting a project into pieces that don't collide, reviewing what comes back, and deciding which agent suits which task. A tool that handles that sits closer to a project manager than to a programmer, and it works with whichever model happens to be strongest that month.

For anyone building software for clients, that has a practical consequence. The orchestration habits a team develops, such as how work is scoped, how output is reviewed and how context is shared, may turn out to be more durable than loyalty to any single model.

Conductor's cloud service shuts down on 20 November, and its founder has said something new will follow early next year. It'll be interesting to see whether the next interface looks like an editor, a dashboard, or something we haven't named yet.