Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained

What It Covers

Anthropic's Code with Claude developer event introduced five updates to Claude Code and the Claude API: scheduled routines, outcome-based agent iteration, multi-agent orchestration up to 25 agents, session memory consolidation called Dreams, and doubled usage limits.

Key Questions Answered

• •Scheduled Routines: Claude Code now supports three trigger types—cron schedules, HTTP webhooks, and GitHub webhooks—allowing automated tasks to run locally or in the cloud without manual initiation. Example use case: auto-drafting a customer newsletter every Monday at 6AM from a changelog file.
• •Outcomes Framework: Claude Managed Agents can now self-grade and iterate up to 20 times against a markdown rubric to reach a defined "done" state. Builders upload the rubric via the Files API or inline, then the agent autonomously refines output until it meets the criteria.
• •Multi-Agent Orchestration: The Claude API now supports explicitly defining teams of up to 25 agents sharing a single container and file system. Builders assign one orchestrator role and multiple sub-agents, each with distinct toolsets, enabling parallel workstreams on a single task from different functional perspectives.
• •Dreams Memory Consolidation: A research-preview API primitive lets builders call against a list of past agent sessions—up to 50 or more—triggering a batch review that extracts and writes the most relevant memories to disk on demand, rather than only on session-close hooks.