Agents -- How to Do Ten Things at Once

A subagent is Claude running in a separate context window, working on a focused task while you do something else. Foreground vs. background agents, how to write agent prompts that actually work, the four architecture patterns, and how to run ten parallel workstreams without conflicts.

How-To May 23, 2026  ·  11 min listen  ·  Claude Code series, ep. 2

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Claude Code series
1 Foundation -- How to Think About the Terminal 12 min 2 Agents -- How to Do Ten Things at Once 11 min 3 Hooks -- Making Claude Code Do Things Automatically 12 min