Agent orchestrator · Orchestrator (Desktop / Cloud)

Backgrounder

Verified Sep 2026

Quick answer: Running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Goose, or Pi in Daytona sandboxes with GitHub sync — web or Electron UI, agent switching, branched chats, conflict resolution, and scheduled background runs.

Best for

Running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Goose, or Pi in Daytona sandboxes with GitHub sync — web or Electron UI, agent switching, branched chats, conflict resolution, and scheduled background runs.

Skip if

You want a local worktree ADE without Daytona (Termic/Conductor), Cursor Background Agents / Devin-class builders, or an orchestrator that includes the agent models themselves.

Who it fits

  • Running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Goose, or Pi in Daytona sandboxes with GitHub sync — web or Electron UI, agent switching, branched chats, conflict resolution, and scheduled background runs.
  • People who prefer a dedicated desktop coding surface
  • Builders who start in the browser without a local IDE setup
  • Terminal-first engineers who live in the shell and git
Experimental

Pros

Web + Electron control plane to run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Goose, Pi, and other coding-agent CLIs as isolated background processes in Daytona sandboxes wired to GitHub; switch agents mid-run, branch chats, merge conflict resolution, and scheduled agents; `npx background-agents` desktop launcher loads backgrounder.dev; OSS building blocks (Apache-2.0) for self-hosting the same stack.

Cons

Orchestration only — you still bring and pay for underlying agent CLIs; young product with JS-heavy docs that are thin for crawlers; hard dependency on Daytona sandboxes; not Cursor Background Agents (Cursor Cloud) or a Devin-class vibe builder; catalog has not hands-on verified runs.

Facts

Locality:
Hybrid (local + cloud)
Surfaces:
Desktop, Web, CLI
Maturity:
Experimental
Open source:
Source available
Verified:
Sep 2026

Agent standards & memory

AGENTS.md: Delegates to agentsSKILL.md: Delegates to agentsRules / memory: Chat threads, branched conversations, scheduled agent runs, and Daytona sandbox state synced to GitHub repos; wraps underlying CLI harness memory.Free web interface at backgrounder.dev (per awesome-ai-devtools); OSS packages self-hostable (Apache-2.0); BYO Daytona + agent CLI costs. Public hosted plan prices unclear as of Sep 2026.

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