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Copilot finishes your line. Loom finishes the job.
GitHub Copilot made AI pair programming normal, and it is very good at it. Loom Conductor plays a different position: it runs whole missions across a fleet of six Claude Code sessions while you do something else.
The short version
Two tools, two postures.
Copilot pairs
It lives in your IDE, completes the line you are typing, and answers questions in chat. You stay at the keyboard the whole time, and that is exactly the point.
Loom conducts
You hand it a goal. A Conductor model plans it into a mission DAG of tasks, dispatches them across six real Claude Code CLI sessions, and supervises every terminal until the work is verified.
Different denominators
Copilot saves seconds, thousands of times a day. Loom hands back hours, a few times a day. Plenty of developers keep both, because they never compete for the same moment.
While you are away
Supervision is the feature.
Prompts answered
Claude Code asks before edits and commands. Loom presses only the safe affirmative so six sessions never sit waiting. Auto-accept is toggleable, and shift+tab cycles any single terminal's permission mode.
Failures recovered
Rate limits and stalls are detected and recovered, and pooled Claude accounts rotate automatically when one hits a usage limit.
Done means verified
Work is re-checked before it counts as finished. The mission DAG and live activity strips show exactly what each session is doing.
Common questions
Fair questions.
Do I have to give up Copilot?
No. Keep autocomplete in your IDE if you like it. Loom also ships its own editor, CodeMirror 6 with inline AI autocomplete and hunk-by-hunk AI diffs, so quick edits between missions stay in one window.
Does Loom need an API key?
The fleet runs on your existing Claude login, no API key required. Only the Conductor is bring-your-own-key, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Groq, Cerebras, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenRouter, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or local LM Studio, MLX, and Ollama all supported.
What does Loom cost?
The app is free and open source under Apache-2.0, with an installer around 13 MB for macOS, Linux, and Windows. You pay your model providers directly. There is no telemetry and no account beyond your Claude login.
Hand it the work.
Walk away.
macOS, Linux, and Windows. Around 13 MB. Free and open source.