Anthropic Lets Claude AI Agents Autonomously Design and Coordinate Sub-Agents
Anthropic has updated Claude so its agents can author their own multiagent workflows, letting a single Claude instance design, spawn, and coordinate sub-agents to complete a task. The capability is documented on platform.claude.com and surfaced via the Claude Developer Platform, meaning developers can now delegate orchestration logic to the model instead of hand-coding it. This shifts agent frameworks from static, developer-defined pipelines toward dynamically generated ones, where Claude decides how many agents to create and how they divide the work. It lands as Anthropic pushes Claude deeper into agentic coding and automation, directly competing with frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI that require manual graph construction.