Claude Code Agent Teams (2026): What Changed After v2.1.178 and When a Team Beats Subagents

There are now two ways to run Claude Code work in parallel, and they are easy to confuse. Subagents live inside one session and report a result back. Agent teams are separate Claude Code instances that share a task list and message each other directly. Anthropic ships agent teams as experimental: disabled by default, and … Read more