{"slug":"parallel-coding-agents","kind":"shootout","status":"testing incomplete","tier":"deep","title":"Parallel AI coding agents shootout","category":"agent-frameworks/orchestrators","repos":[{"repo":"stablyai/orca","stars":95173,"license":"MIT"},{"repo":"ruvnet/ruflo","stars":75950,"license":"MIT"},{"repo":"OpenHands/OpenHands","stars":null,"license":null},{"repo":"NousResearch/hermes-agent","stars":254625,"license":"MIT"},{"repo":"kdlbs/kandev","stars":963,"license":"AGPL-3.0"}],"claims":[{"claim":"5 GitHub repos that let you run multiple AI coding agents in parallel","source":"https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2111181634821062671"},{"claim":"Run many AI coding tasks at once, then review all changes in one place","source":"https://x.com/GithubProjects/status/2109708440235057612"}],"plan":"Give every tool the same 3 independent issues on a sample repo, with the same model and budget. Measure correct merged changes, conflicts, cost and wall time.","who_its_for":"Developers juggling several coding tasks at once.","notes_so_far":[],"topic":"robotics","explainer":"Tools that run several AI coding agents at the same time, each on its own task or git worktree, and then let you review all the changes in one place. Orca, Kandev and OpenHands are workspaces for this; Ruflo is a multi-agent harness; Hermes Agent is a self-improving agent.","measure":["Correct, mergeable changes on the same 3 independent issues","Merge conflicts between agents","Cost and wall-clock time","Setup effort"],"sneak_peek":["4 of 5 tools installed and started: ruflo, openhands-agent-canvas, kandev, orca. hermes-agent failed to install after 1,192 seconds.","Claude Code x3: 3 of 3 issues fixed and passing their original tests. The slowest agent took 340 seconds of wall time.","Merging gave 1 clean merge and 2 conflicts. The merged full suite ended with '1 error'.","Agents also committed __pycache__ .pyc files along with their real fixes."],"gallery":[],"results":{"jobs":[{"id":5,"title":"Parallel coding agents: smoke 5 tools; 3 issues x 3 parallel agents (Claude Code, Hermes)","kind":"claim","status":"done","started":"2026-10-18T02:45:04Z","finished":"2026-10-18T04:26:40Z","wall_seconds":6096,"install_friction":null,"artifacts":["raw/parallel-coding-agents/job-5/hermes-build.txt"]}],"smoke_only":false,"ingested":"2026-10-18T15:02:22Z"},"last_test_finished":"2026-10-18T04:26:40Z","published_ct":"Oct 21, 2026","verdict_caveats":["The Hermes arm never ran because the hermes-agent install failed, so this is one agent setup, not a full shootout.","Only 3 small planted issues were used."],"standard_missing":["dependency/CVE scan","canary secret plus telemetry/network-egress capture","install-script review","permissions requested","license","upstream maintenance status","known CVEs of bundled components","computed score"],"analysis_status":"testing incomplete"}