Claude Projects Upgraded Again: Supervising Agent Proactively Reports Progress, Tasks Can Branch and Set Reminders

Beating AI News Flash: Anthropic has updated Claude Code Projects, with a key focus on enhancing the proactive capabilities of the manager Agent. It can now answer questions directly in the project's main chat and proactively report on the progress of various tasks, so users no longer need to open each conversation individually to check.

This update also adds two existing commands to Projects. Using `/btw`, users can move a new question that comes up temporarily into a separate conversation without interrupting the current task; using `/fork`, users can branch a new conversation from an existing one to try different approaches without affecting the original work.

Users can also set reminders for any conversation. For example, by asking Claude to remind you tomorrow to check a certain task, the relevant conversation will be temporarily collapsed from the list and reappear at the scheduled time, with the manager reminding you in the main chat.

In addition, a single conversation can now generate a read-only link to share with any logged-in Claude user for viewing, but conversations that have accessed the local computer cannot be shared. The interface also adds entry points for recently used, updated, and pinned conversations, and displays thumbnails of files generated by each conversation. Project settings and local folder access have also been simplified.

These updates have rolled out to the web and desktop versions, and the latest mobile version also adopts the new interface. Projects is still in public beta for Pro and Max users, and users who have not yet gained access can continue to apply for the waitlist.