Conductor and Talyn are built around the same idea. You give each task its own agent, on its own branch, in its own workspace, and you run several of them at once. Conductor called the unit a workspace. Talyn calls it a session.
On November 4, 2026, Conductor announced that it is joining Meta. If you use Conductor Cloud, you need somewhere to move your work this month. This page says what changes on which date, what carries over to Talyn unchanged, and what Talyn does not do.
Ready to move? Open the browser app or download Talyn, sign in with GitHub, and pick up your first branch in a few minutes.
The Conductor timeline
From Conductor's own announcement:
- November 4: no new sign-ups and no new downloads. Existing Pro users keep Pro features for free.
- November 13: Conductor Cloud goes read-only. You can read old chats and export data, but you cannot send new messages. Active subscribers get a refund.
- November 20: Conductor Cloud shuts down and Conductor starts to delete cloud user data.
- Early 2027: local Conductor gets new models and critical fixes until then, and then it winds down.
What carries over unchanged
Your setup scripts. Talyn reads conductor.json and
.conductor/settings.toml, so a repository set up for Conductor works with no
changes. The setup, run and archive scripts run as they did, and every
CONDUCTOR_* variable your scripts use is set, with the same value as its
TALYN_* name. See repository setup.
Your subscriptions. Talyn runs first-party Claude Code on your Claude Pro or Max plan and Codex on your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan. You sign in with the account. There is no API key and no token markup.
The way you work. Each session has its own branch, sandbox, diff, terminal and run scripts. Sessions never touch each other's files. In the desktop app, a session can also run in a git worktree on your own computer, and a local session uses none of your box-hours.
Cloud sandboxes. Each cloud session runs in its own Firecracker microVM. Talyn builds an image of your repository with the setup already done, so a new session does not start from a clean machine. A sandbox goes to sleep after 10 minutes without work, and a sleeping sandbox costs nothing.
How to move
- Before November 13, save your work in Conductor Cloud. Push the branch of each workspace you want to keep to GitHub. Conductor also lets you right-click a cloud workspace and choose Transfer to local, and export everything from Settings → Account → Export data.
- Open Talyn. Download it for macOS, Windows or Linux, or use the browser app. Sign in with GitHub and install the Talyn GitHub App on the repositories you work in.
- Connect Claude, ChatGPT or both. Talyn uses the subscription you sign in with. See connect your agents.
- Pick up each branch. Start a session and choose Create from… to open it on an existing branch or an open pull request.
Talyn does not import Conductor chats. The work is on the branch, and the session starts a new conversation on top of it.
What Talyn adds
- Windows, Linux and the browser. The same account and the same sessions on macOS, Windows, Linux and at app.talyn.dev.
- Threads. One conversation with a goal that starts a session on every repository that needs a change, and keeps track of each one.
- Past the pull request. One button opens the pull request. The same button then fixes failing checks, resolves conflicts and merges. A merge queue lands ready pull requests in order and sends an agent when one breaks.
- Code review in the app. Several reviewers read a change, then a check drops what it cannot back up. Nothing reaches GitHub unless you post it.
- Work that starts without you. Scheduled automations run a prompt on a schedule. GitHub automations run on pull request events. Both run in the cloud with the app closed.
- Slack, MCP servers and a public API. Start a session from a Slack message, give the agent your Linear or Sentry tools without putting the keys in the sandbox, or drive sessions from your own scripts.
What Talyn does not do
- No Cursor or OpenCode. Talyn runs Claude Code and Codex.
- No public iOS app yet. The mobile app is coming. Today you can use the browser app on your phone.
- Team sharing is not generally available. Each person has their own workspaces.
- GitHub only. No GitLab and no Bitbucket.
- Windows builds are unsigned. SmartScreen warns on the first install.
Price
Talyn is free with 10 box-hours a month. Pro is $40 a month for 200 box-hours, every sandbox size and up to 100 sandboxes at once. A box-hour is one standard sandbox awake for one hour, billed per second. The model runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, so you pay Talyn for the machines, not the model. See pricing.
Which one
Stay on local Conductor if your work already lives in local workspaces on your Mac and you are happy to move when it winds down in early 2027.
Use Talyn if you used Conductor Cloud, you want your agents to keep working with the laptop closed, or you need Windows, Linux or the browser.