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January 24, 2026 | Read Online

Claude Code's boring new "Tasks" update just changed AI coding forever

You hear "Claude Code Tasks" and you roll your eyes thinking this is just another boring task list feature.

Not realizing that this unlocks the full power of one of the most revolutionary Claude Code upgrades so far:

Sub-agents.

Claude Code can now spawn new agents running in parallel -- to break down a long complex task into simpler sub-tasks.

This is way better than our typical agent reasoning mode -- because each sub-agent now has a completely new session for itself.

No more complex bloat from previous tasks -- which means more space to think and give accurate results.

Each sub-agent only has to focus on its own task -- and report back when it's done.

Claude Tasks is here to keep all the sub-agents coordinated and in line with the overall goal of what you're trying to achieve.

Now you have a real task list that shows up in your terminal as progress is made:

All the sub-tasks are coordinated intelligently -- so for example you can see that Task B will be delayed if it depends on output from Task A:

And something really important about this is that the task list isn't fragile anymore.

It survives:

long sessions
context compaction
jumping into side quests and back

So Claude doesn't forget the overall plan just because the conversation moved around.

Effortlessly reuse tasks across sessions

This is the part most people are going to miss at first.

You can run multiple Claude Code sessions and point them at the same task list:

CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST_ID=my-project claude

Now all those terminals share one checklist.

That means you can:

have one session refactoring files
another running tests or builds
another hunting edge cases

…and they all coordinate against the same "what's left to do" list.

It basically turns Claude Code into a lightweight multi-agent setup without any extra tools.

1. Long workflows are finally reliable

Before this, Claude's planning lived inside the chat context.
That's a terrible place for anything that needs to last more than a few turns.

Tasks gives Claude a stable memory for:

what it already did
what it still needs to do
what order things should happen in

So you stop getting weird regressions like:
"Why are you re-doing step 3 again?"

2. Forget history, just share the list

Once you…

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