Anthropic has begun a beta release of a new project experience for Claude Code, its agentic coding tool, letting Claude scope, delegate, coordinate, review, and assemble work across multiple sessions on its own. The update, announced September 17, 2026, reaches only select Claude Pro and Max subscribers at first.
Under the new setup, Claude Code projects now allow users to describe tasks and have Claude manage the work. Claude scopes requests, delegates work, coordinates parallel threads, reviews outputs, and assembles finished results. Users can steer progress throughout, including from a phone, and Claude continues working after the user steps away from the computer.
The change targets a long-standing friction point in multi-session builds. Managing multiple sessions across a build previously required dividing work, juggling handoffs, and stitching results back together.
Two Worked Examples
Anthropic points to a checkout performance goal as one illustration. A user can configure a project to reduce app checkout p75 latency, and Claude profiles each endpoint, tests optimizations, and opens PRs in parallel threads.
A second example spans repositories. A user can connect API, web, and mobile repos and set a goal to retire a deprecated v1 endpoint. Claude creates a thread per repo to migrate callers, run tests, open PRs, and indicates which need to merge first.
Who Gets In, and When
Stay ahead of the AI curve
The most important updates, news, and content — delivered weekly.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Updated projects are available in beta starting today, September 17, 2026, to select Claude Pro and Max subscribers who use cloud sessions in Claude Code and have no existing projects on web or desktop. Access will expand over the coming week to more Claude Code users on Pro and Max plans. Updated projects across all of Claude and Team and Enterprise plans will come after that.
Pro or Max users without access can join a waitlist. Existing projects on Pro and Max plans continue to work as they do today, and those existing projects will be upgraded as the rollout expands to chat and Cowork. A blog post provides more information.
A Phased Rollout
The staged approach means the feature lands first with a narrow group, then widens. Anthropic has not said how many subscribers fall into the initial cohort or how long each phase will last.
Claude Code is a product by Anthropic, and Claude projects are a feature within it. The update remains in beta.