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Warp rethought the terminal. Loom rethought the workday.
Warp is a genuinely modern terminal with AI woven in, and people love it for good reason. Loom Conductor is a mission system for a fleet of six Claude Code sessions, and its terminal happens to be excellent.
Table stakes
The terminal, taken seriously.
Real and fast
A WebGL renderer on xterm.js over native PTYs, with true color, search, tabs, and splits. It is a real terminal, not a chat box wearing one.
Windows included
Loom ships for macOS, Linux, and Windows, and on Windows every terminal tab can run WSL.
Six you can step into
The fleet's sessions are real terminals too. Watch any of them work, or click in and type when you want to steer one by hand.
Above the prompt
What a mission system adds.
Planning
A Conductor model, bring-your-own-key across a dozen providers or a local model, turns a goal into a mission DAG and dispatches tasks across the fleet.
Supervision
Loom watches every terminal, answers permission prompts with only the safe affirmative, recovers rate limits and stalls, and rotates pooled Claude accounts on usage limits.
Verification
Work is re-checked before it counts as done, with live activity strips showing what each session is doing right now.
Common questions
Terminal people ask.
Should I switch from Warp?
Not necessarily. If you live at a prompt all day, Warp is a fine home, and the two coexist happily on one machine. Loom earns its place when the unit of work is a mission rather than a command. See Loom vs plain Claude Code for what conducting actually adds.
What else is in the workspace?
A CodeMirror 6 editor with inline AI autocomplete and hunk-by-hunk AI diffs, a source control panel with the full git graph, auto-detected web preview of dev servers, markdown preview, a file explorer, a Design tab, and a theme engine with presets, custom themes, and background images.
What does it cost, and what does it phone home?
Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with an installer around 13 MB. No telemetry, no account beyond your Claude login, and keys live only in the OS keychain.
Hand it the work.
Walk away.
macOS, Linux, and Windows. Around 13 MB. Free and open source.