Superset opens a hundred terminals. Aura tells you which ones were right.
Superset is a macOS editor built for running many terminal agents at once — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Aider, Gemini CLI and more, each in its own worktree, with a diff viewer, a chat panel and an in-app browser around them. Aura shares the ambition and stops in a different place: it treats the agent as the easy part and the review as the hard one.
What each one is for
What Superset is great at
- Scale
Ten agents is the advertised floor and a hundred is not a joke. If your bottleneck is how many terminals you can babysit, Superset raises the ceiling further than anything else.
- Breadth of engines
Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Aider, Copilot, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI and its own chat all run under one roof.
- A real editor around it
Diff and file editing, port management, an in-app browser for docs and your dev server, MCP tooling. You can stay inside it all day.
- Shipping fast
Multiple releases a week, north of 11,000 GitHub stars, and the source is there to read.
What Aura adds on top
- A licence you can build on
Aura is Apache-2.0. Superset moved from Apache-2.0 to the Elastic License 2.0 in 2026 — source-available, not OSI open source, and it forbids offering the software as a hosted service.
- Meaning, not lines
Aura diffs the AST. You read which functions changed and what they now do, in English, instead of scanning hunks.
- A gate before the merge
Every task carries a goal; the commit is checked against it and against what the agent said it did. A mismatch stops the commit.
- One shared history
A hundred agents on a hundred worktrees is a hundred stories. Aura keeps one intent log across all of them, so the repo can still be explained afterwards.
Dimension by dimension
Side by side
When to pick which
Pick Superset if…
- Raw parallelism is the thing you are short of.
- You want one window that is also your editor, browser and port manager.
- The Elastic licence is fine for how you use it.
Pick Aura if…
- You need the licence to be OSI open source, or you are shipping a hosted product.
- You want the changes reviewed by something other than your own eyes at 6pm.
- You need a record of why each commit exists that survives the session.
- You are on Linux or Windows.
Keep Superset. Add the control layer.
Superset can drive the agents while Aura sits underneath on the same repository: the Aura CLI tracks intent and proves commits regardless of which window launched the agent. If you want the orchestration you already like plus a gate at the commit, that combination works.
Aura & Superset
Is Superset open source?
It is source-available under the Elastic License 2.0, which is not an OSI-approved open-source licence and restricts offering the software as a hosted service. It was Apache-2.0 until 2026. Aura is Apache-2.0 today across the engine, CLI and extension.
Can Aura run as many agents as Superset?
Aura Crew runs a dependency graph rather than a free-for-all, so the number in flight is whatever the graph has unblocked. The design goal is different: fewer agents that cannot collide, rather than the highest possible count.
Which is better for a solo developer?
If you want maximum agents in one editor, Superset. If you want to be able to explain and prove what landed, Aura.
Ship with proof, not hope
Free public beta for macOS and Linux. Point it at a repo and keep driving Superset, now with a semantic diff, a verdict and a record on every change.