Claude Code Tasks Are Here (New Update Turns Claude Code ToDos to Tasks)

Abstraction: Claude Code Tasks feature upgrades ephemeral Todos to persistent cross-session tasks

Key points:

• The old Todos in Claude Code lived only in memory — closing a session wiped them, and subagents had no visibility into what the main agent was tracking
• Tasks replace Todos with persistent, coordinated work items that survive across sessions and are visible to subagents
• Core idea: break complex work into manageable pieces that persist, coordinate, and scale across multiple sessions and agents
• Anthropic added Tasks to support Opus 4.5's longer autonomous workflows that require more than an in-memory checklist
• Competitors including Google Antigravity and Augment Code had similar task-tracking features before this Claude Code update

Connections: Claude Code · Anthropic · Agentic Coding · AI Agents

Source: https://medium.com/@joe.njenga/claude-code-tasks-are-here-new-update-turns-claude-code-todos-to-tasks-a0be00e70847