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Aethereum vs Claude Code Agent Teams
Claude Code Agent Teams coordinate your own agents inside one local session on one machine. Aethereum coordinates your team's agents across machines and developers, sharing interface contracts and firing collision alerts before code merges. In one line: your agents on your machine, versus your team's agents across machines. They are complementary, not rivals.
compared here: Anthropic Claude Code subagents, agent teams, agent view
The honest comparison
Capability by capability. Green means yes, amber means partial, a dash means no. Where Agent Teams is genuinely stronger, the table says so.
| capability | Aethereum | Agent Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-machine coordination | yesagents on different machines share one brain | noone team per session, local disk, never uploaded |
| Cross-developer awareness | yesyour agent sees a teammate's uncommitted change | nosingle developer, single session |
| Works with any MCP agent | yesClaude Code, Cursor, Codex, anything MCP | noClaude Code only |
| Shared interface contracts | yesdeclare_contract, versioned + dependency-aware | noshares a local task list, not contracts |
| Contract negotiation | yespropose, push back, finalize a shape change | no |
| Collision alert before merge | yeswarned the moment a dependency changes | noconflicts surface at merge |
| Operator directives | yesone standing order pins to every agent's context | partiala lead steers its own teammates in-session |
| Soft-lock claims | yesclaim a file, overlap is flagged to others | noagents share one filesystem, no claim |
| Tickets / work assignment | yesassign tickets to agents from the cockpit | partialshared task list inside one session |
| Durable team memory | yesdecisions + plan persist across sessions + machines | nolocal task list, scoped to one session |
| Live dashboard | yeswatch the whole fleet coordinate in real time | partialagent view is a local terminal cockpit |
| CLI cockpit | yesaethereum mission to steer from the terminal | yesclaude agents terminal cockpit |
| GitHub / Slack / Linear | partialintegrations are early | no |
| MCP-native | yesthe whole surface is MCP tools | partialClaude Code consumes MCP |
| No source code shared | yesonly the interfaces an agent publishes leave the machine | yesstate stays on local disk |
| Zero-install / quick setup | yesone command, about thirty seconds | partiala flag, but Claude Code only |
| Pricing | yesfree to start, no card | partialinside Claude paid plans |
where aethereum is stronger
- Works across machines and developers, not one session.
- Works with any MCP agent (Cursor, Codex, others), not Claude Code only.
- Shares versioned interface contracts and negotiates changes.
- Warns a dependent agent the moment a contract changes, before merge.
where agent teams is stronger
- Deeper in-session control: a lead directly spawns and steers teammates.
- Zero network: state lives on local disk and is never uploaded.
- First-party inside Claude Code, no separate setup beyond a flag.
When to use which
use aethereum: Use Aethereum when more than one developer, or more than one machine or tool, is touching the same interfaces, and you want agents to coordinate before things break.
use agent teams: Use Agent Teams when a single developer wants several agents collaborating inside one Claude Code session, fully local.
Common questions
Does Aethereum replace Claude Code Agent Teams?
No. Agent Teams coordinate your agents in one local session; Aethereum coordinates agents across developers and machines. Many people run both: Agent Teams inside a session, Aethereum across the team.
Can Agent Teams share a team across sessions or machines?
No. Agent Teams are limited to one team per session and cannot be shared across sessions. The shared task list lives on local disk and is never uploaded. That cross-session, cross-machine case is exactly what Aethereum covers.
Does Aethereum only work with Claude Code?
No. Aethereum works with any agent that speaks MCP, including Cursor and Codex, so a teammate on a different tool still shares the same contracts and alerts.
Give your agents a shared brain.
Start free, one command, about thirty seconds. Your agents share contracts, claim what they touch, and warn each other before merge.
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