Dynamic workflows officially introduced in Claude Code; Available in research preview

By Estuti Bajpai Published on May 29, 2026, 10:25 IST

Yesterday, Claude introduced dynamic workflows in Claude Code, helping Claude take on the most challenging tasks end-to-end.

Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code

Dynamic Workflows can handle complex, legacy codebases end-to-end. During early access, dynamic workflows were used for a wide range of use cases, including: Codebase-wide bug hunts, profiler-guided optimisation audits, security audits, large migrations, modernisation efforts and critical work that needs to be checked twice.

Claude also gave an example of how dynamic workflows can unlock at scale, as it was recently used to rewrite Bun.

How does it work?

Claude plans dynamically based on your prompt, breaks it into subtasks, and fans the work out across subagents running in parallel. Results are checked before they’re folded in, and you come back to a single, coordinated answer.

Dynamic workflows are built for parallel and long-running work that can extend into hours and days, doing the most complex engineering work that previously would have taken weeks. Dynamic workflows consume more usage than a typical Claude Code session. The first time a workflow triggers, Claude Code shows what’s about to run and asks you to confirm. Organisation admins can also optionally disable workflows through managed settings.

For the best experience, users are advised to turn on auto mode when using dynamic workflows. From there, you have two ways to start a workflow:

Ask Claude to create a dynamic workflow directly, or
Switch on a new Claude Code-specific setting called ultracode. This is accessible through the effort menu, and it sets the effort level to xhigh, while letting Claude decide automatically when to use a workflow to handle your task.

Availability

Dynamic workflows are available in research preview in the Claude Code CLI, Desktop and the VS code extension for Max, Team and Enterprise (if admin enabled) plans, as well as on the Claude API on Amazon, Bedrock, Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry.

If you are on a Max or team plan or using Claude Code via the API, dynamic workflows are on by default. If you are on the Enterprise plan, dynamic workflows are off by default at launch. Your admin can easily change this in the Claude Code settings.

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