What's this about?
New Projects starts in Claude Code beta for selected Pro/Max cloud users: one ongoing conversation routes work into parallel threads and continues while the laptop is closed. This is distinct from yesterday's chat/Cowork merge.
What exactly is coordinator agent?
One agent holds project context and delegates bounded tasks to workers. Coordination can reduce manual session management, but does not guarantee conflict-free integration or correct results.
What's the community saying?
Official X: 8,205 likes, 411 replies; developer and practitioner perspectives sampled.
- Boris Cherny says he stopped manually managing sessions.
- Mollick demonstrates specialist teams but explicitly calls their results non-definitive.
- Developer posts highlight shared memory and background synthesis across workstreams.