This week, Anthropic didn’t just launch routines for Claude Code. It also a redesigned desktop experience for its coding agents — with a few small tweaks to the overall app, too.

As Anthropic describes it, “The new app is built for how agentic coding actually feels now: Many things in flight, and you in the orchestrator seat.”

Mixed metaphors aside, this means you can now see all the active and recent sessions more easily, putting the emphasis on managing agents as they work on multiple repos and across them.

As Frederic Lardinois writes in his story, when you need to ask a question while the agent is working, you can now open a side chat that knows the main context but doesn’t redirect the agent while it is working.

Go deeper: Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster

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