Claude Code Tasks Feature

🆕New Features

Friday, January 23, 2026

Users are discussing the new "Tasks" feature in Claude Code, an upgrade from "TodoWrite" that shifts task planning from the context window to the filesystem, enabling longer autonomous operation.

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@GitHub_DailyGitHubDaily

Using Claude Code for development is indeed powerful in terms of functionality, but having to operate everything in the command line every time makes it quite cumbersome when you want to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, review conversation history, or manage different

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@EricBuess

@trq212 Sweet! I'm integrating tasks right now! They're awesome! They're already in https://t.co/iQqp5UfGFP so Claude knows how to build them in. 🔥

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@EricBuess

This is awesome! No more todos. Use Tasks! Tasks: - are a new primitive that help Claude Code track and complete more complicated projects and collaborate on them across multiple sessions or subagents. - can have dependencies on each other that are stored in the metadata - are stored at ~/.claude/tasks so that multiple subagents or sessions can collaborate on them. When one session updates a Task, that is broadcasted to all sessions currently working on the same Task List - sessions can collaborate on a single Task List by started claude with an environment variable, e.g.: CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST_ID=groceries claude This also works for claude -p and the AgentSDK. Inspired by Beads, by Steve Yegge.