Add defract to Parallel Agent Runners

[joaosp]

Adds defract to the Parallel Agent Runners section (alphabetically, between crystal and dmux).

defract is a macOS app that runs your Claude Code agents through a structured story → design → architecture → implementation → review lifecycle, with a visual design stage. Local-first; bring your own Anthropic key.

[Keesan12]

The structured lifecycle here is a useful signal.

A lot of tooling still gets grouped as if everything is just "an agent that runs in parallel", but a story -> design -> architecture -> implementation -> review flow is solving a different problem than a plain parallel runner.

That matters because people evaluating these tools are often really choosing between:

• raw execution speed
• workflow structure
• review confidence
• control / stop conditions

So even beyond this specific entry, PRs like this are a good reminder that category precision is going to matter more as the ecosystem fills out.

[joaosp]

@Keesan12 - parallel runners for me wasn't enough and thats why I started building defract - the end-of-day cognitive load was massive when I was running 20 tabs all day long and holding context mostly in my head

I'm sure there's a lot of developers out there who won't like the structure defract somewhat imposes - but for me it was game changer

Fully agree with you that category is going to be extremely important moving forward - as there's going to be an explosion of "flavors" for running agents!