Claude Code's Dynamic Workflows orchestrates up to 16 parallel subagents
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-27
The author tried Anthropic's newly released "Dynamic Workflows" in Claude Code with Opus 5.5 and calls it the most impressive multi-agent orchestration experience yet.
The official Cookbook recipe shows how it works:
- Instead of turn-by-turn orchestration, Claude writes a JavaScript script that the Workflow tool executes in the background, spawning subagents in parallel or stages, holding results in variables, and applying filter/loop/verification logic in plain code. Launchable from Python via the Agent SDK.
- Each subagent is a full Claude Code agent: clean context, only the scripted prompt, constrained by your tool allowlist.
- Model routing per stage: cheaper models for mechanical extraction, the strongest for judgment calls, or override all with CLAUDECODESUBAGENTMODEL.
- Up to 16 subagents run concurrently.
- Demo task: fact-checking a report against source docs with parallel verifier and skeptic subagents.
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