Five Ways Claude Code Runs Multi-Step Work. The Two Questions That Pick the Right One. (opens in new tab)

Author(s): Anup Karanjkar Originally published on Towards AI. Single agent, subagents, skills, agent teams, dynamic workflows — a builder’s map, and the one that isn’t really orchestration On May 28, Claude Code got its fifth way to run a multi-step job, and I watched a room of good engineers immediately reach for the wrong one. The article argues that choosing between Claude Code’s multi-step primitives is not primarily about how many agents you want to spawn—agent count is an output, not an...