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Anthropic's Claude can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel through dynamic workflows

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Anthropic is adding dynamic workflows to its Claude Managed Agents, bringing multi-agent orchestration to the platform. The managed agent infrastructure has been around for a while, but dynamic workflows are new. A lead agent creates a plan, distributes tasks to sub-agents, and merges the results when they're done. Up to 1,000 agents can run in parallel per execution.

Whether this is cost-effective seems debatable. A senior OpenAI engineer recently called agent swarms a massive waste of tokens, but Anthropic points to its own testing: The team hid 70 bugs in a 116,000-line codebase and found that a single agent caught between 14 and 27 per run, while the dynamic workflow consistently hit 66. Whether those gains hold across different task types remains to be seen, so, as always, it's worth testing with your own workloads.

To activate dynamic workflows, select the "multiagent_20261001" agent type. Because these workflows can burn through "a lot of tokens," Anthropic recommends starting small. You can get going through the documentation or by running "/claude-api managed-agents-onboard" in Claude Code. Ad Ad

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Anthropic is adding dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, letting a lead agent distribute tasks across up to 1,000 sub-agents at once. In testing, a single agent found at most 27 of 70 hidden bugs in a codebase, while the multi-agent workflow consistently caught 66. The…

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Northern Virginia Office Vacancy Falls Again as AI, Defense Demand Builds

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Northern Virginia’s office market continued to tighten in the third quarter as more demand from artificial intelligence, technology and defense tenants bolstered weaker leasing activity.

The market posted 672,378 square feet of positive net absorption during the quarter, reversing losses from the first half of the year tied to buildings being removed from the market, according to JLL. The National Science Foundation ’s 380,000-square-foot move to 401 Dulany Street accounted for much of the gain.

Northern Virginia’s office vacancy rate fell for a sixth straight quarter to 21.7 percent. Total available space dropped to 33.6 million square feet, its lowest level in a decade, and 25.5 percent below the 45.1 million-square-foot peak in 2023.

Leasing activity slowed to just 1.3 million square feet on the quarter, with no deals of more than 100,000 square feet. AI, technology and defense companies committed to more than 300,000 square feet of net new space. And defense spending and tech investment are expected to continue driving momentum.

Relocations and new leases have accounted for 58 percent of leasing so far in 2026 in a reverse to the renewal era of 2021 through 2023.

Office supply is beginning to strengthen rents, according to JLL. Class A direct asking rents reached $42.51 per square foot per year, while overall direct asking rents averaged $38.13. JLL’s longer-term data shows asking rents have risen since 2022 for Trophy, Class A and Class B properties, while Class C rents have slipped.

New construction remains virtually nonexistent, with only about 34,000 square feet underway. Meanwhile, more than 10 million square feet of existing office inventory has been proposed for redevelopment, a dynamic JLL expects will continue tightening the lower end of the market while limited Trophy supply pushes demand toward Class A properties.

Gregory Cornfield can be reached at gcornfield@commercialobserver.com.