Agent view and background agents

Agent view is the dashboard: several full Claude Code sessions running in parallel, visible from one screen.

Where it sits among the parallelism features

There are three overlapping concepts and they are genuinely different:

Feature	Unit	Purpose
Subagents	Child agent inside one session	Contain context cost of a subtask
Agent teams	Multiple sessions that message each other	Coordinate strands of one effort
Agent view	The interface	Watch and control several sessions

Agent view is the window, not the orchestration. You can use it with independent sessions that have nothing to do with each other.

Worktrees usually come with it

Two sessions editing the same working directory will fight. Git worktrees give each one its own checkout, which is why Anthropic documents them alongside parallel sessions rather than as a separate git tip.

What it does not do

• It does not merge results. Combining work is still yours, or an agent team’s.
• It does not multiply your usage allowance. Parallel sessions consume in parallel.