Claude Code Agent Teams Explained (Complete Guide)

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🚀 Join 800+ builders going deeper on Claude Code: https://www.skool.com/earlyaidopters/about 📦 Download the Agent Teams Guide + 24 Diagrams (FREE): https://bit.ly/3ZrsZ3Z 📅 Book a strategy call: https://calendly.com/d/crfp-qz3-m4z --- Claude Code's Opus 4.6 release introduced Agent Teams - and they completely change how multi-agent work gets done. In this video, I break down exactly how agent teams work under the hood, when to use them vs subagents, and I walk you through the real-time surveillance dashboard I built to monitor everything agents do. If you've been using subagents and wondering why your frontend and backend agents keep building on different assumptions - this is the fix. Shared task lists, agent-to-agent messaging, and a team lead that actually coordinates. --- ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Agent Surveillance Dashboard Preview 1:05 - What We'll Cover 1:27 - Why Token Cost Matters 1:50 - Step 1: Enable the Feature Flag (Cheat Code) 3:17 - Verifying Agent Teams Are Active 4:00 - How Teams Persist vs Subagents 4:23 - Step 4: Assign the Right Model Per Agent 5:00 - Invoking Agent Teams (Magic Words) 5:55 - How Teams Work In Depth 6:19 - The Communication Problem with Subagents 7:00 - Cross-Communication Between Agents 7:32 - The Built-In Kanban (Shared Task List) 8:00 - Full Team Lifecycle Explained 8:56 - Display Options: tmux vs Surveillance Dashboard 10:00 - tmux Demo 10:31 - The Surveillance Skill (How It Works) 11:00 - Agent Teams vs Subagents (Key Differences) 12:17 - When to Use Agent Teams (4 Use Cases) 14:10 - When Subagents Are Still Better 15:00 - Applied Example: Debugging with Competing Hypotheses 16:00 - Applied Example: Building Authentication 16:42 - Decision Flowchart: Teams vs Subagents vs Nothing 17:37 - Pros and Best Practices 18:00 - Gotchas (Token Cost, File Overwrites, No Resume) 19:00 - Visualizing the Architecture (ASCII Art) 20:00 - How I Built the Surveillance Dashboard 21:00 - Message Protocol and Task Lifecycle 21:52 - Live Demo: Spinning Up a Team + Surveillance 22:32 - History Tab and Session Audit 22:58 - Free Resources + Community --- 🔗 RESOURCES: • Agent Teams Docs: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/agent-teams • Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code • Warp Terminal: https://www.warp.dev --- #ClaudeCode #AgentTeams #Opus46 #AIAgents #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #Subagents #MultiAgent #AIAutomation #AICoding #AITools #AgentDashboard #ClaudeCodeTutorial #AIWorkflow