How to Orchestrate Coding Agents with Conductor, with Charlie Holtz

Shane and Abhi welcome Charlie Holtz from Conductor to AI Agents Hour. Charlie shares how frustration with managing multiple Claude Code instances led to building Conductor. They discuss Conductor's July 2025 launch as the first agent orchestration Mac app, early design choices, and its impact on the market.

Charlie outlines a future in which agents run 10x longer and require less supervision, along with new tools such as Kanban boards and a CEO dashboard. The conversation covers multi-agent coordination, designing for both humans and AI, and the importance of user feedback.
Watch a live demo showcasing Conductor's parallel agents, code review, GitHub integration, and continuous deployment with GitHub Actions and Vercel. They also explore ways to keep users within the app while allowing flexibility, code-editing strategies, and upcoming remote workstation support.

AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream hosted by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Airing Mondays at 12PM Pacific on YouTube and X, the show covers breaking AI news, agent development techniques, and features interviews with industry experts building AI applications today.

🧰 RESOURCES MENTIONED
https://www.conductor.build/

📚 MASTRA RESOURCES
Mastra: https://mastra.ai
Learn Mastra in the world's first MCP-Based Course: https://mastra.ai/course
Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/book
Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/blog/patterns-book https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduJjc515f6RZJqtkR2ByqJZrB0iP8B7SUKnjjZE9IajH_I8w/viewform

MASTRA?
Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework designed for building and shipping AI-powered applications and agents with minimal friction. It supports the full lifecycle of agent development—from prototype to production. You can integrate it with frontend and backend stacks (e.g., React, Next.js, Node) or run agents as standalone services. If you’re a JavaScript or TypeScript developer looking to build an agentic or AI-powered product without starting from first principles, Mastra provides the scaffolding, tools, and integrations to accelerate that process.

00:00 Origin Story of Conductor
01:07 Launch and Early Positioning in the Orchestration Space
01:50 The Future
02:46 Autonomous Work and Multi-Agent Coordination
03:39 Designing for Both Humans and AI
04:03 User Education and Feedback Loop
04:48 Live Demo
06:17 Multi-Tasking and Workspace Management
07:31 Code Review and Pull Requests
09:21 Integration and Continuous Deployment Features
10:00 Keeping Users Within the Application
10:35 Editing Code: Directly or with AI?
11:44 Current Integrations and Future Plans