Claude Code’s biggest upgrade yet ran 5 agents at once — here’s what happened
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Claude Code multi-agent upgrade, directly relevant to agent orchestration.
Summary
Anthropic's Claude Code dynamic workflows, shipping with Opus 4.8, let the AI write its own orchestration scripts to dispatch hundreds of parallel subagents while keeping the context window free of intermediate results. In a test, five agents built a CLI tool in under seven minutes, producing 62 passing tests at an estimated cost of $3–$5. The architectural shift moves orchestration logic out of the LLM's context and into a separate script, enabling large-scale parallel execution without context-window overflow.