# Conductor joins Meta; its cloud shuts down November 20

URL: https://techaiwire.com/articles/conductor-joins-meta-cloud-shutdown-november-20-export-workspaces/

_By Claire Whitmore - Nov 6, 2026_

**By the numbers:**

- Nov 13 - Conductor Cloud goes read-only
- Nov 20 - Conductor Cloud shuts down and data deletion begins
- 100,000+ - people using Conductor, per its website

Conductor, the Mac app that runs several AI coding agents side by side, is joining Meta, its team announced on November 4, 2026. Its hosted service, Conductor Cloud, becomes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20. Anyone with work in the cloud has about two weeks to move it, and the local app only keeps getting updates until early 2027.

"I have big news: Conductor is joining Meta," chief executive Charlie Holtz wrote in the [announcement](https://www.conductor.build/announcement). Axios first reported the deal. Meta confirmed it but "wouldn't comment further or provide additional details," according to [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/meta-acquires-ai-coding-startup-conductor/). The price was not disclosed.

Conductor lets a developer start several coding agents at once, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, each in its own copy of a project. The developer then reviews and merges what each agent did. Conductor launched in July 2025, the announcement says. More than 100,000 people use it, SiliconANGLE reports, citing the company's website.

## Conductor's shutdown dates

The announcement lays out four steps. The 0.93.0 release notes, published the same day, repeat the cloud dates.

| Date | What changes | What you can still do |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, November 4 | No new sign-ups or downloads. Free users can't upgrade to Pro | Pro users keep Pro features for free |
| Friday, November 13 | Cloud workspaces go read-only | Read old chats and export data. Active subscribers get a refund |
| Friday, November 20 | Conductor Cloud shuts down, and deletion of cloud user data begins | Nothing in the cloud. Export before this date |
| Early 2027 | The local app starts winding down | Until then it gets new models and critical bug fixes |

The same 0.93.0 release still added features. It put GPT-6.1 Terra in the Codex model picker. Archived cloud workspaces now show their pull requests, last known changes and file tree.

## What the notice says about your data

Conductor gives two ways out of the cloud. "To move a cloud workspace and its chats to your Mac, right-click it and choose Transfer to local," the notice says. For a full copy, it points to Settings, then Account, then Export data.

On privacy, the team writes: "We have never sold or trained on Conductor user data, and we still won't." A second line matters more for planning: "We'll delete all Conductor user data when the app shuts down in early 2027."

That sentence does not say whether "user data" includes the folders on your own Mac. Conductor's [documentation](https://www.conductor.build/docs/concepts/git-worktrees) explains where those live. Workspaces "are usually created under `~/conductor/workspaces/<repo name>/<workspace name>`," it says. Each one is a Git worktree: a second working folder attached to the same repository, with its own branch.

The documentation also says workspace notes and handoffs "can live in the gitignored `.context` folder." Gitignored means Git never records those files. If you rely on those notes, copy them out yourself, because no branch or push will carry them.

## Tested: what Git keeps when a workspace folder is deleted

To see what survives if a workspace folder disappears, Tech AI Wire rebuilt Conductor's documented layout in a throwaway folder. The test ran on macOS 26.6.2 with Git 2.51.0, using plain Git commands, not the Conductor app. It made two workspaces. The first, task-a, held one committed change. The second, task-b, held one file that was never committed. Then the test deleted the whole `conductor/workspaces` folder.

```
$ git worktree list
…/demo-app                              83cdd92 [main]
…/conductor/workspaces/demo-app/task-a  e2fbc27 [task-a]
…/conductor/workspaces/demo-app/task-b  83cdd92 [task-b]
$ git branch --no-merged main
+ task-a
$ git worktree list   (after deleting the workspaces folder)
…/demo-app                              83cdd92 [main]
…/conductor/workspaces/demo-app/task-a  e2fbc27 [task-a] prunable
…/conductor/workspaces/demo-app/task-b  83cdd92 [task-b] prunable
$ git worktree prune && git branch
* main
  task-a
  task-b
$ git log --oneline task-a
e2fbc27 agent work
83cdd92 init
```

The committed change survived, because a commit lives in the main repository, not in the workspace folder. The uncommitted file in task-b was gone with the folder, and Git had no copy of it. The `git branch --no-merged main` command is the quick way to list agent branches you have not merged yet.

## Why Meta wants Conductor

Holtz plans to work with Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, TechCrunch reports. "I'm convinced MSL has the highest talent density of all the labs," Holtz wrote on X. The team promises "something new for you to use early next year," with no details.

Meta already has its own coding agent, Muse Code, which launched in August. According to SiliconANGLE, Meta's most capable Muse Wonder models "stay closed inside its own Muse Code terminal and application programming interface." Meta introduced [Muse Wonder](/articles/meta-muse-wonder-frontier-model-api-pricing-benchmarks/) in October as its first frontier model. Conductor, by contrast, ran other companies' agents.

Holtz and chief technology officer Jackson de Campos founded the company, formally Melty Inc., in 2024. It raised a $22 million Series A in March, led by Spark Capital and Matrix, SiliconANGLE reports. The pattern is familiar: in October, the [Deno team joined Cloudflare](/articles/deno-joins-cloudflare-deploy-shutdown-runtime-final-year/) and gave its hosting service six months.

## What this means for developers

- **Cloud users: move this week.** Right-click each cloud workspace and choose Transfer to local before November 13, while you can still work in it. After that you can only read and export.
- **Export everything once.** Settings, Account, Export data gives you an archive of the chats you may want later. Do it before November 20, when deletion begins.
- **Commit and push agent work.** Run `git branch --no-merged main` in each repository Conductor touched. Push every branch you want to keep to your remote.
- **Copy your `.context` notes.** They are gitignored, so only a manual copy saves them.
- **Don't plan on new seats.** Downloads stopped on November 4, so a new teammate cannot install the app.
- **Subscribers: watch for the refund.** The notice promises one to active subscribers but gives no date or method.
- **Pick a replacement before early 2027.** Conductor only ran other companies' agents. Those tools stay where they are; what goes away is the app that ran several of them at once.

## Sources

- [Conductor is joining Meta](https://www.conductor.build/announcement) - Conductor
- [Conductor 0.93.0 changelog](https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.93.0-conductor-is-joining-meta) - Conductor
- [Git worktrees](https://www.conductor.build/docs/concepts/git-worktrees) - Conductor Docs
- [Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/meta-acquires-ai-coding-startup-conductor/) - TechCrunch
- [Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once](https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/04/meta-acquires-ai-coding-startup-conductor-whose-app-runs-several-coding-agents-at-once/) - SiliconANGLE