GoKawiilAnthropic overhauls Claude Code Projects, but feature is cloud-only for now
Anthropic has rebuilt the 'projects' concept inside Claude Code, giving cloud-based sessions persistent threads, shared memory, and the ability for Claude to coordinate multiple parallel work streams on its own. The upgrade is initially limited to select Pro and Max subscribers using cloud sessions who have no existing projects, while local, terminal-based workflows are excluded from the new system entirely.
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Coordinating multiple AI coding agents at once is a known pain point, and this redesign aims to let Claude manage delegation, review, and assembly automatically rather than requiring developers to babysit each thread. However, by limiting the rollout to cloud users and leaving local developers without access, Anthropic risks creating a split experience where power users working directly in terminals miss out on the most significant new capabilities.
- New Claude Code Projects add persistent threads and shared memory for multi-agent coordination.
- Only select cloud-session Pro and Max subscribers without existing projects get the feature initially.
- Local, terminal-based Claude Code workflows are not yet supported by the redesign.
Source: zdnet.com — David Gewirtz, 2026-09-17
Published there as: “Claude Code’s revised projects adds AI orchestration, but local developers must wait”
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