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Elco Console vs Claude Squad

Choose Claude Squad if you live in the terminal and want free, open-source juggling of several agent sessions in separate worktrees. Choose Elco Console if you want those agents to run a workday without you: on a schedule, with rules, a team log and an inbox.

What Claude Squad is

According to its repository, Claude Squad is a terminal app that uses tmux and git worktrees to manage multiple Claude Code, Codex and Gemini sessions. It's free and open source under AGPL-3.0 (github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad).

Where Claude Squad is the better choice

• It's free and open source.
• It works with several agent CLIs, not only Claude Code.
• It stays in your terminal; nothing to open in a browser.
• Git worktrees per session keep parallel changes apart.

Where Elco Console is different

• Unattended by design: a workday scheduler, auto-continue with a daily cap, error back-off and end-of-day handoffs.
• Coordination between agents: a shared team log and a task board, with messages delivered when an agent's run ends.
• A decision inbox you can clear from your phone through your own authenticated tunnel.
• A web UI with live transcripts, rather than a terminal UI. Mac only, $99 once.

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