ccmanagervscmux
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
ccmanager
Kodai Kabasawa · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.75 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 8.2
- Longevity
- 6.0
“It will drive nine different coding agents for you, and there is still only one of you to read what they wrote.”
cmux
Manaflow · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.62 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 6.0
“A terminal for coordinating many agents on exactly one operating system, so the agent wars are settled by what laptop you were issued.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | ccmanager | cmux |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesEditing is performed by the managed agent CLIs; ccmanager itself only manages their sessions. | No |
| Git operations | Yes | NoThe sidebar displays branch and pull request status but cmux performs no git operations itself. |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | YesThrough documented devcontainer integration, which runs the agent session inside a container. | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | YesNative panes for Claude Code Teams and oh-my-opencode orchestration; cmux runs and watches the agents rather than running an agent loop of its own. |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor Agent, Copilot CLI, Cline CLI, OpenCode, Kimi CLI, MiniMax Code) | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Amp, Aider) |
| Bring your own model | Yesccmanager runs whatever agent command you configure as a preset, so the model comes from the agent CLI you point it at rather than from ccmanager itself. | No |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | free |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| GitHub stars | 1,256 | 27,557 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | ccmanager | cmux | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.3 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.5 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 6.0 | cmux — Twenty-six thousand stars and an optional supporter tier: enormous attention converted into a donation box, which is not a revenue model. |
| La Jefa | 6.0 | 5.5 | ccmanager — Nothing to buy and nothing to administer: no headless mode, so it never enters a pipeline, and macOS and Linux only leaves my Windows engineers out. |
| El Hacker | 8.3 | 7.5 | ccmanager — MIT, `npx ccmanager` with nothing to install, and every agent it drives is just a command preset I define myself. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.