ccmanagervsDeepCode
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
6.70 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.”
DeepCode
HKUDS · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.84 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 9.3
- Longevity
- 5.0
“Open source and free, this agent harness runs locally as a CLI, desktop app, or headless for CI.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | ccmanager | DeepCode |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesEditing is performed by the managed agent CLIs; ccmanager itself only manages their sessions. | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | YesThrough documented devcontainer integration, which runs the agent session inside a container. | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor Agent, Copilot CLI, Cline CLI, OpenCode, Kimi CLI, MiniMax Code) | |
| 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. | Yes |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | free |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 1,256 | 16,665 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | ccmanager | DeepCode | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 6.8 | ccmanager — Pick it if you run three or four agent sessions and lose track of which one is waiting on you; pick Conductor if you would rather have a window than a terminal. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 7.0 | DeepCode — DeepCode claims to be an agentic coding platform but lacks a browser, limiting its ability to research solutions outside the local environment. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.3 | ccmanager — It executes no edits of its own, so its correctness question reduces to session and worktree lifecycle, and status-change hooks make that lifecycle observable. |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 6.8 | DeepCode — This is a well-engineered open-source harness from a university lab, not a company; use it for research, but don't bet your production workflow on it. |
| 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 | 8.5 | DeepCode — DeepCode is a proper, MIT-licensed agent harness I can host myself, with MCP support and a headless mode for CI. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.