Conductor
Conductor is a workflow engine that runs multi-step jobs and AI agents reliably, so steps survive crashes and retries, for developers.
What it is good for
- Keeping long multi-step automated jobs running after crashes or network failures
- Coordinating AI agent steps, tool calls, and human approvals in one workflow
- Inspecting, retrying, pausing, or replaying a running automated process
- Running background services written in several programming languages together
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Framework or SDK
- Tasks
- Works with
- Node.js, Java, Docker, Python, Go, MCP
Momentum
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- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 32,404
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Conductor free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Conductor?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Conductor work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Node.js, Java, Docker, Python, Go, and MCP.
- What is Conductor good for?
- Keeping long multi-step automated jobs running after crashes or network failures, coordinating AI agent steps, tool calls, and human approvals in one workflow, inspecting, retrying, pausing, or replaying a running automated process, and running background services written in several programming languages together.
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