claude agents, is one screen for all your background sessions: what’s running, what needs your input, and what’s done. Dispatch new sessions, watch their state at a glance instead of scrolling through transcripts, and step in only when one needs you. Each background session is a full Claude Code conversation that keeps running without a terminal attached, so you can open it, reply, and leave whenever you want.
Agent view is in research preview. The interface and keyboard shortcuts may change as the feature evolves.
Quick start
This walkthrough covers the core agent view loop: dispatch a task, watch its row update as Claude works, peek to check on it and reply, and attach for the full conversation. The session you dispatch keeps running after you close agent view, so you can leave and come back to it.1
Open agent view
From your shell, run:If you haven’t yet accepted the workspace trust dialog for the directory, Claude Code shows it before agent view opens, the same dialog
claude shows. Accept to save trust for the workspace and continue. If you decline, Claude Code exits without opening agent view.Agent view opens with an input at the bottom and a table that fills in as sessions start. Press Esc at any time to return to your shell; if you opened agent view by backgrounding a session with ←, Esc returns to that conversation instead. Your sessions keep running while you’re away and reappear the next time you open agent view.2
Dispatch a session
Type a prompt describing a task and press
Enter. A new background session starts on that task and appears as a row showing whether it’s working, waiting on you, or done. The new session uses the model shown in the agent view header. Which permission mode it starts in depends on how you opened agent view.Every prompt you enter here starts its own new session. Typing another prompt and pressing Enter launches a second session alongside the first rather than sending a follow-up to it. You can run several in parallel this way.Each session uses your subscription quota independently, so see Limitations before dispatching many at once.3
Peek and reply
Select a row with the arrow keys and press
Space to open the peek panel. It shows the session’s most recent output, or the question it’s waiting on, rather than the full transcript. Type a reply and press Enter to send it without leaving agent view.4
Attach and detach
Press
Enter or → on a row to attach when you want the full conversation. The session takes over the terminal as a full interactive Claude Code session. Press ← on an empty prompt to detach and return to the table.5