Anthropic has introduced agent view in Claude Code: one place to manage all your Claude Code sessions. Before this, running agents in parallel meant managing multiple terminal tabs, a tmux grid, and an overloaded mental ledger of what to tackle next.
With agent view, you can kick off new agents, send them to the background, and jump in only when Claude needs you. A single glance tells you which agents are waiting on input, which are still working, and which are done.
As someone who covers Claude Code regularly, this is one of those quality-of-life additions that addresses a real friction point. Running three or four parallel sessions used to mean context-switching across windows constantly. Agent view collapses that overhead directly into the CLI.
What Agent View Actually Does
Agent view works as a session roster inside the CLI. Each row shows a Claude Code session, its current state, its last activity, and whether it is working, waiting for input, completed, failed, idle, or stopped.
Agent view improves visualizing and interacting with your Claude Code sessions in the CLI. Press the left arrow from any session or run claude agents from the terminal to open it. Each row shows the session, whether it needs your input, the contents of its last response, and when you last interacted with it. Select a session to peek at the last turn.
Sessions keep running in the background without a terminal attached, which means closing the view doesn't kill your work. When you attach to a session, Claude posts a short recap of what happened while you were away. While attached, the session behaves like any other Claude Code session: every command, keyboard shortcut, and feature works.
Key Technical Highlights
Developers can open agent view from any session with the left arrow or start it directly with claude agents. They can also move an existing session into the background with /bg, launch a new background job with claude --bg "[task]", peek at the latest turn with the spacebar, reply inline, or attach to the full transcript with Enter or the right arrow.
A few other details worth noting from the official documentation:
- Agent view is a research preview and requires Claude Code v2.1.139 or later. Check your version with
claude --version. - The interface and keyboard shortcuts may change as the feature evolves, and administrators can disable agent view for an organization with the
disableAgentViewmanaged setting.
