Coordinating multiple Claude Code instances

Most writing about Claude Code assumes one engineer, one session, one project. That assumption stops being true the moment a team adopts the tool. You’d think two Claude instances working on the same repo would be a fringe edge case. It isn’t. The same engineer often has two terminals open, one focused on a backend change and another on a frontend tweak. Two engineers pair on a feature, each with their own Claude. A long-running session is left to grind through tests while a second session opens to plan the next workstream. As soon as you scale beyond solo use, you accumulate situations where two or more Claudes are touching the same files, with no idea about each other. ...

April 25, 2026

Scaling Claude Code across a consulting team

Claude Code is great when you’re working solo. Get a few people using it across a few dozen project repos, though, and the cracks show. Two engineers reach for it at the same time and end up with two completely different approaches to the same problem. Someone discovers a clever pattern on a Tuesday and the rest of the team finds out about it three months later. The project that someone set up beautifully with CLAUDE.md and skills and slash commands ages out of relevance because nobody updates it. New starters see Claude Code as “that thing some people use,” not the way the team works. ...

April 25, 2026