Claude Code Projects gets proactive coordinator, /fork and thread sharing

Claude Code Projects now has a coordinator that reports to you instead of waiting to be asked, according to Anthropic's developer account. A project is one ongoing conversation in which Claude splits a goal into tasks and runs each task as a separate thread working in parallel. The coordinator is the part of Claude in that main project chat that directs those threads. ClaudeDevs says it is now "much more proactive": it answers your questions in the project chat and gives you status updates on threads that are still running.

That matters because of how Projects is built. When Anthropic introduced it in September (Intel), the pitch was that threads keep working in the cloud after you close your laptop. The October walkthrough showed each thread as its own session on its own branch, opening pull requests and fixing failed checks, with a tab listing the threads that are waiting for you. With several threads running unattended, the hard part is knowing what happened while you were away. A coordinator that volunteers progress in the main chat means you can find out without opening each thread.

The headline for this item also names a /fork command and thread sharing. The post's text describes only the coordinator change, and its attached demo video had no transcript, so this explanation does not cover /fork or thread sharing.