workflow-orchestrator vs conductor
workflow-orchestrator is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Nadav Barkai. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). conductor is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by conductor-oss. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-16. Each is among the other's three closest plugins by what they say they do, both are of the same kind, and both are known: listed on a curated marketplace or on several, or with a figure of note.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  conductor | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace barkain/claude-code-workflow-orchestration | Listed Version: 2.1.1 Forks (GitHub): 14 Stars (GitHub): 87 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.6.6 Forks (GitHub): 10 Stars (GitHub): 24 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | workflow-orchestrator | conductor |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 87 (better) | 24 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 14 (better) | 10 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 10 | 6 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/barkain/claude-code-workflow-orchestration | github.com/conductor-oss/conductor-skills |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 2 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
workflow-orchestrator
Delegation system with workflow orchestration, specialized agents, and parallel execution for Claude Code
conductor
Teach Claude to orchestrate microservices and business processes with Conductor. This skill adds full workflow lifecycle management: define workflows with any task type (HTTP, SWITCH, FORK_JOIN, WAIT, HUMAN), run them synchronously or asynchronously, monitor executions, and manage failures with pause/resume/retry/restart. Key capabilities: - Create workflow definitions with proper JSON schema and input expressions - Start, monitor, and search workflow executions by status, time, or correlation ID - Signal WAIT and HUMAN tasks for human-in-the-loop patterns - Scaffold workers in Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby, or Rust - Visualize workflows as Mermaid diagrams - Manage multiple environments with CLI profiles - Enterprise features: schedules, secrets, webhooks (Orkes) Works with any Conductor server — local development or remote. Installs and configures the conductor CLI automatically.
How to run each
workflow-orchestrator As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add barkain/claude-code-workflow-orchestration
/plugin install workflow-orchestrator@barkain-pluginsconductor As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install conductor@claude-communityCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: workflow-orchestrator · What it can do: conductor · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.