Claude Code Unveils 'Agent View' to Manage Multiple Agents on One Screen

Agent View has been added to Claude Code, allowing you to launch, monitor, and respond to multiple background Claude Code sessions from a single screen.

Each session survives without a terminal, kept alive by a separate supervisor process. Status appears as table rows, letting you see the session name, work in progress, and last change time at a glance. One-line summaries are generated by a Haiku-class model, so you can grasp the status without opening the transcript.

Status indicators are distinguished as follows.

• Working: running tools or generating a response
• Needs input: waiting on a permission decision or question
• Idle: waiting for input
• Completed / Failed / Stopped: finished, errored, or stopped

Process-alive status is also shown. Sessions that are working can respond immediately, and even if the process dies, it's automatically respawned on peek, reply, or attach. /loop sessions sleep until the next iteration, showing the run count and a countdown.

Controls are designed around a Dispatch-Peek-Attach-Detach flow. You enter a prompt in the input box to launch a new session, use Space for Peek to view recent output and PR links, Enter or → to Attach, and ← from an empty input to keep it running in the background. Multiple-choice questions are answered with number keys, and for stuck sessions, Tab fills in a suggested answer. Shift+Enter dispatches and immediately attaches.

Work isolation is handled via git worktree. Edit sessions created in Agent View are automatically separated under ~/.claude/worktrees/ as needed, and the worktree is deleted along with the session when it's removed. When a PR has been opened, CI status is also shown in the row.

Additionally, shell commands like claude agents, claude attach, claude logs, claude stop, claude respawn, and filters in the form a:<name>, s:<state>, #1234 are provided. However, Claude Code v2.1.139+ is required, it's currently in Research Preview, and running more parallel sessions consumes quota and billing faster. If the local machine sleeps, background sessions also stop, and it can be fully disabled via the disableAgentView setting or the CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AGENT_VIEW environment variable.