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Keep one project moving after Conductor Cloud

Conductor says Conductor Cloud becomes read-only on November 13, 2026 and shuts down on November 20. Here's how to save your work, and, if you want, try one repository with an OpenRig team on your own Mac.

1. Save your work first

Conductor's announcement gives two ways:

  • Right-click a workspace and choose Transfer to local to move it and its chats to a Mac.
  • Settings → Account → Export data downloads an archive.

Do it before November 13, while Cloud can still be changed; exports stay possible until November 20. Conductor also says its local app keeps getting model updates and critical fixes until early 2027. Conductor's instructions

2. Put one branch on your Mac

  1. Commit and push the work you want to keep, then clone that branch on your Mac.
  2. Install its dependencies and run its tests.
  3. Write a short handoff note: the goal, the branch, how to run and test it, what works, and the next change.

Keep exported chats for reference.

3. Add OpenRig's setup skill

You'll need your own Mac with Node.js 22 or 24 (on Apple silicon, Node.js 22), tmux, and Claude Code installed and signed in. What you need

In your repository:

npx skills add https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/tree/v0.7.12/skills/rigs --skill rigs --agent claude-code
claude

Then type /rigs in Claude Code. It shows what it will set up and asks before installing anything. It finishes by opening the OpenRig view, a terminal window where you talk to the operator: OpenRig's own agent, which starts and runs teams for you. What setup does

4. Start Workshop

In the operator's window, ask for Workshop, a team with a lead, builder, reviewer and QA agent. Give it your repository path and your handoff note, and ask for the all-Claude preset so all four agents use Claude Code.

Workshop's agents run commands and edit files without asking, so read the launch plan before you say start.

5. Get one result

Ask the operator to open the lead's terminal, orch-lead@workshop. Give the lead one small fix plus a way to check it. Review the diff and run the tests yourself before you give it more.

This is a fresh setup with a manual handoff. It doesn't bring over your Conductor conversations, worktrees or settings, and we haven't tested a move from Conductor. It runs on your own Mac with your own Claude Code login.