Anthropic just pulled swarms into the core.
Yesterday marked another foundational day in agentic coding. Opus 4.6 dropped, but the bigger story is that agentic teams are now native to Claude Code.
For months, many of us have been parallelizing development through swarms—frameworks and add-ons bolted onto the base offering. Today, Anthropic embraced that trend and pulled it directly into the core product.
And they did it well.
I tested it by giving Claude Code two complex epics from one of my projects—both designed to add full agentic capability to my app. A bit cheeky, I know ... getting agent teams to build agent teams ... whatever ...
What happened next impressed me.
After analyzing the interdependencies across all the GitHub issues, Claude Code broke execution into five sprints. It understood which issues could run in parallel and which had to be completed first. Sprint one: three issues in parallel. Sprint two: two dependent issues. And so on. By sprint five, it parallelized all six remaining issues because there were no interdependencies left.
Each issue is developed in its own work tree. Technically, everything could run simultaneously, but Claude Code was smart enough to avoid the merge-conflict nightmare that would ensue.
The system parsed the problem and allocated work the way a very experienced senior engineer would.
For those of us tracking where the puck is going ... it moved another significant portion up the ice today. The way we built software 18 months ago looks nothing like how we will build it going forward.
For a product guy like me, that's catnip.
Carpe Agentem 🏒
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