Use cases
Ship it in the evenings.
The side project does not need your whole weekend. Brief the fleet after dinner, let six real Claude Code sessions work, and review the diffs before bed.
One evening
Brief once, review at the end.
8 pm, the brief
Type the goal into the bar. The Conductor plans it into a mission DAG and dispatches tasks across six terminals, each one a real Claude Code session on your existing login.
While you do other things
Auto-accept presses the safe affirmative on permission prompts, drifting sessions get nudged, exited CLIs are relaunched, and a usage limit rotates to the next pooled account.
10 pm, the review
Open the source control panel, read the git graph, and step through what the fleet changed. You decide what ships, and nothing leaves the machine until you push.
Built for nights and weekends
Side projects die on overhead, so Loom keeps it near zero. The app is free and Apache-2.0, and the installer is about 13 MB on macOS, Linux, and Windows. The fleet runs on the Claude login you already have, no API key required. The Conductor is bring-your-own-key across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and OpenRouter, or it can run fully local on LM Studio, MLX, or Ollama, which makes the planning side free too. The pricing page spells out the whole bill: the app costs nothing, you pay your model providers directly.
It is also a complete workspace, so the project never leaves one window:
- A WebGL terminal with tabs, splits, and search for anything you want to run yourself.
- A CodeMirror 6 editor with inline AI autocomplete and hunk-by-hunk AI diffs for the parts you write by hand.
- An auto-detected web preview, so the dev server shows up inside Loom the moment it boots.
Questions
The evening logistics.
What if I only have an hour?
Brief something an hour-sized, watch the live activity strips, and jump into any terminal if a session needs a steer. The fleet tips guide covers sizing briefs so they finish inside your window.
Can it keep going after I go to bed?
Yes. Auto-accept, stall recovery, and account rotation are built for unattended stretches. See overnight runs for the bedtime version of this workflow.
Where does my hobby code go?
Nowhere new. Loom is a local desktop app with no telemetry and no account beyond your Claude login, keys live in the OS keychain, and the sessions talk to Claude through the official CLI exactly as if you ran it yourself. Details on the privacy page.
Hand it the work.
Walk away.
macOS, Linux, and Windows. Around 13 MB. Free and open source.