Anthropic launches Claude Code Projects, an ‘always-on’ conversation that remembers and delegates your long-running dev work
Key Points:
- Anthropic has launched Claude Code Projects, an AI-powered coordination agent designed to help developers manage ongoing software development by subdividing work into parallel threads and maintaining shared project memory across sessions.
- Unlike the existing Claude Projects workspace, Claude Code Projects focuses specifically on coordinating multiple Claude Code sessions for continuous development tasks, preserving context, routing work, and enabling asynchronous, parallel workflows.
- The system features a coordinator agent that directs worker threads, allowing developers to steer and inspect individual tasks while maintaining an overarching project goal, improving efficiency and reducing the need to re-establish context in each session.
- Claude Code Projects currently runs worker threads in the cloud with plans for local execution soon, which will support private repositories and internal tools; it is initially available to select Claude Pro and Max subscribers with broader access planned.
- This launch reflects a broader industry trend toward managing multiple AI coding agents concurrently, with Anthropic emphasizing a persistent conversational coordinator as the control layer, differentiating it from competitors like OpenAI, GitHub, and Google.