Anthropic Ships Agent View in Claude Code
Anthropic shipped Agent View as a research preview on 2026-05-12, available on all paid Claude plans (Claude Code v2.1.139+). Developers press the left arrow key inside any session to open a unified dashboard listing all active agents with colour-coded status: yellow for sessions needing input, green for done. The /bg command backgrounds the current session; claude --bg "<task>" launches a detached agent from cold. A new /goal command enables long-running auto-research loops analogous to Codex-style objectives.
Why It Matters
Agent View converts "babysit one terminal" into "supervise a fleet" — a qualitative shift for agentic workflows. Multiple corroborating sources confirm same-day release; the research-preview label signals production hardening is still pending.