Anthropic's official X account, @ClaudeDevs, posted the following around 5:10 PM PT on September 17, 2026: "Today we're rolling out Projects in Claude Code on desktop and web. A project is one conversation with Claude. It splits the work into threads itself, runs them as parallel cloud sessions, passes context between them, and keeps going when you leave. In beta for select users." The announcement introduces a redesigned Projects feature in Claude Code on desktop and web, now in beta.
What Was Announced
According to the official blog post, projects have been redefined from a folder into a conversation. You describe a goal, and Claude scopes the request, delegates the work, coordinates threads running in parallel, reviews the outputs, and assembles the finished result. Each thread is a separate Claude Code cloud session working on its own branch and copy of the repository; if multiple threads touch the same code, the overlap is resolved as a merge conflict just like any other pull request. Threads can further split their work using subagents, loops, and workflows when needed. Over time, projects build up a shared memory of details, alongside a library that collects files and artifacts produced during the work.
What It Means for Users
Previously, running several sessions at once meant dividing the work yourself, repeating the same background for each session, and checking back manually to see what finished. With the new projects, you can send work into a single conversation and Claude opens a new thread or routes it to one already in progress, continuing even after you step away. You can monitor and steer progress from your phone, making it easier to manage long-running work that spans multiple repositories or services, or areas that keep generating new tasks.
How to Use It
Starting Requirements
- Who it's for — The beta starts with Claude Pro and Max subscribers who have used cloud sessions in Claude Code and don't have existing projects in claude.ai chat or Cowork.
- Platform — Available in the sidebar at claude.ai/code or in the Code tab of the desktop app. Not yet available on Team or Enterprise plans.
- Waitlist — Pro or Max users who don't see the feature yet can join the waitlist.
Setup and Usage Steps
- Create a project — When starting a project, you select a goal along with the repository or context to work with. Claude suggests work it can pick up right away.
- Configure the environment — You can set the project's cloud environment, connectors, plugins, instructions, and model.
- Manage progress — Monitor and guide overall progress in the main project chat, or dive into individual threads to examine and steer the details directly.
Who Uses It, and For What
- Multi-repository work — Connect API, web, and mobile repos and open a thread per repo to migrate callers, run tests, and open pull requests.
- Performance work — The official example is setting a goal to reduce checkout p75 latency, then having Claude profile each endpoint, test optimizations, and open PRs across parallel threads.
- Non-code work — Upload documents such as a folder of contracts or a support-ticket export and keep asking follow-up questions of them.
Things to Watch
- Beta limits — Access starts with select users, expands to more Claude Code users on the same plans over the following week, and later extends to chat, Cowork, and Team and Enterprise plans.
- Existing projects — Existing projects on Pro and Max plans keep working as they do today and will be upgraded when the rollout reaches chat and Cowork.
- Usage — Because each thread is a full cloud session, projects can reach usage limits faster. You can check project-specific usage and choose the model and effort level for both the coordinator and worker threads.
- Where threads run — Threads run in the cloud today; running alongside your local tools, code, and network is said to be coming soon.
What's Still Unconfirmed
The official materials don't specify an exact timeline for expanding to Team and Enterprise plans or to chat and Cowork, nor concrete usage-limit numbers during the beta rollout. An exact release date for running threads locally is also not included in the official announcement.
Check Anthropic's official channels for the latest status.
Official resources: claude.com/projects-redesigned · code.claude.com/claude-projects
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