Opus 5 model card shows 5-agent coding teams reach 0.6 score 2.2× faster
OfirPress · x · 2026-07-25
A ProgramBench experiment from the Claude Opus 5 model card compares three ways to run multi-agent coding tasks: a single agent, a 5-agent team, and an async setup with background subagents.
Key results:
- The 5-agent team reaches the same 0.6 score about 2.2× faster than the single-agent baseline.
- The async setup is slower at the start because the lead agent must decompose the task first.
- It ends with the highest final score, while the 5-agent team gets to roughly 60% hidden tests passed the fastest.
The takeaway is a practical tradeoff: more agents can improve latency and/or final score, but the best structure depends on whether you optimize for early progress or end quality.
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