Claude Projects Explained: 5 Ways Claude Code Runs Agents

Claude Projects can run several Claude Code agents in the cloud while your laptop is closed, and a new project starts every thread on Opus at high effort. Here are the 5 ways Claude Code runs agents at once (subagents, agent view, agent teams, dynamic workflows and projects), which one your work needs, and what to change before your first project. What's inside: why Anthropic rebuilt projects as a conversation, how the 5 ways differ by who does the coordinating, what a project uses up on a Pro or Max plan (and why "run at most two threads" isn't a hard cap), what happens to running work when you hit your usage limit, and a first-batch setup from Anthropic's own docs. Chapters 0:00 Claude Projects 0:38 From folder to conversation 1:41 Who does the coordinating 2:29 Teams, workflows and projects 3:30 The cost of a dispatcher 4:24 Work that keeps going 5:18 Set it up first 6:13 Which one you need 7:07 Your next step Sources (checked 2026-10-23) Projects redesigned: from folder to conversation (Anthropic, 2026-09-17): https://claude.com/blog/projects-rede... Let Claude coordinate ongoing work with Projects (Claude Code docs): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claud... Run agents in parallel (Claude Code docs): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agents Projects are in public beta on Pro and Max plans and rolling out gradually (there's a waitlist if you don't see Projects yet); details are from Anthropic's pages on the date above. We didn't run a project ourselves. Narration uses a synthetic voice. #ClaudeCode #ClaudeProjects #AIAgents