Anthropic Launches Claude Code Projects in Beta: Parallel Cloud Sessions That Keep Running After You Close Your Laptop
Claude Code Projects just turned your laptop into a coordinator. Parallel cloud sessions keep running—and Claude decides what becomes a thread.
Why it matters
Anthropic shipped a fundamental redesign of Claude Code's project model: from static folders to persistent, agent-coordinated parallel sessions. Practitioners using Claude for development now get async, autonomous work that survives laptop closure—a meaningful shift in how AI coding assistants handle multi-threaded work.
The key facts
5 to knowClaude Code Projects redesigned: single ongoing conversation replaces folder-based structure
Claude acts as coordinator, deciding which work becomes its own thread
Each thread runs as a full Claude Code cloud session on its own branch
Sessions persist after user closes laptop (async/background execution)
Feature in beta (availability expanding)
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Publisher excerpt: Anthropic redesigned Projects in Claude Code. The old project was a folder: some files plus one chat. The new one is a single ongoing conversation where Claude acts as coordinator. You describe work, and Claude decides what becomes a thread. Each thread is a full Claude Code cloud session running…