Navigating Claude Code: Agent Teams in Practice
Previously in series
- The Bare Minimum Setup
- CLAUDE.md Done Right
- Models, Tiers, and Effort
- The Context Window Tax
- Hooks That Guard Your Code
- MCP Servers Worth Adding
- Skills That Actually Fire
- Subagents Done Right
Introduction
Claude Code already spawns agents without being asked. Give it two independent questions in one session and it may run them in parallel — subagents handling each, results surfacing in your main context. Most of the time you will not notice it happening, and you cannot do much about it if you want to redirect one mid-flight.
Agent Teams is what you reach for when that invisibility becomes a problem. Here you spell out the roles yourself, and every teammate is a separate session sitting in its own pane where you can watch it work and interrupt it. Anthropic shipped this in early February 2026. One session leads, the others do the work, nobody shares...
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