Orchestrating agent swarms is cool, but there’s a lot of overhead and debugging involved. The ability to chat with your lead agents in real time while they continue to work independently is fantastic, especially for complex work like research or validating a hypothesis. The lead session coordinates tasks, assigns work, verifies results, and consolidates everything, while still allowing you to be the “human in the loop” as needed.

I’ve been testing the experimental Agent Teams feature in Claude Code with tmux, and it’s very intuitive. Claude Code automatically spins up new tmux sessions for each subagent. These sessions can run in the background, and you can use regular tmux commands to work with them.

Caveats

1. The feature is experimental
2. Only works with Opus 4.6
3. Does not support all terminal emulators