Superset

Superset is a desktop IDE for people who supervise agents instead of typing with one. It drives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Kimi Code, Mistral Vibe, OpenCode, Droid and Amp, each in its own worktree, and the trait that decides it is the in-app browser: you check the running app beside the diff without switching windows.

You need five or more tasks in flight to feel the difference. Pick it if you do and want a company behind the app. Pick Orca if you want the same shape with a fully open licence, and Conductor if you prefer the Mac-native feel.

The risk is fan-out on a bare host. The tagline promises 100-plus agents in parallel and there is no container layer, so a hundred processes with a hundred shells share one machine and one set of credentials. The parts that would move that work elsewhere are not ready: remote access is marked beta on the pricing page and the mobile app is marked coming soon.

Run a handful, not a hundred, until the remote story is out of beta. What it does right: the scheduled automations are explicit, so unattended runs are something you configured rather than something that happened.

Three documented properties. 1. Every workspace is a separate git worktree, so parallel agents never contend for a tree. 2. A TypeScript SDK exposes the same operations as the app, which makes a run scriptable and, in principle, reproducible. 3. The app serves MCP, so a managed agent can create workspaces and read diffs in the tool that manages it, a loop the documentation presents as a feature.

No benchmark is published and none is claimed for the app itself. The observation: when the supervised agent can drive the supervisor, the hierarchy is a convention, not an enforcement.

A Y Combinator company with a price on the page: Pro at $15 per user per month when billed yearly, $180 a seat a year, and the pricing page lists Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Vercel, Datadog and Amazon among users, a logo wall a Series A buys. Source-available rather than open keeps a hyperscaler from hosting it against them, which protects the seat price.

Moat: the desktop habit and integrations; switching cost is modest since worktrees are git. Likely acquirer: Linear or Vercel, both already integrated or adjacent. Position: long, with the caveat that agent vendors could ship the same window.

The demo is ten agents on ten worktrees in one window. Procurement: the free plan is capped at one user, so sixty engineers means Pro or Enterprise. Pro at the monthly rate is $20 a seat, $1,200 a month for sixty, and it includes the Linear and Slack integrations we would use. SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, IP restrictions and the SOC 2 Type II report are Enterprise, custom priced, annual only.

It does not run in CI; it is a desktop app. Onboarding is a download and a subscription the engineer already holds. Approved with conditions: Enterprise pricing in writing before rollout.

Source-available under Elastic License 2.0: I can read every line and build from the repo, but the licence forbids offering it as a managed service, and a fork that competes with them is off the table. That is honest about what it is, which I prefer to open-washing. There is a CLI installable with brew, and the licence text sits in the repo where I can check it.

No local-model setting exists because Superset does not call models; the agents in its worktrees do, on whatever keys I gave them. Grudging: the desktop app is good. Not mine, but not hiding anything either.