How to set up a Claude Code project so a coordinator runs your related tasks as parallel threads while you step away.

Use a project when one goal keeps producing tasks over days or weeks; see 📝Claude Code Projects for how it works and 📝Claude Coordinator for the role Claude plays in it.

What You'll Need

A Pro or Max plan with Projects showing in the sidebar at claude.ai/code or in the desktop app's Code tab (it may sit under More)
For code work, a GitHub repository with the Claude GitHub App installed and push access from your connected account

Steps

Open Projects — Select Projects in the left sidebar, then New project. The New project dialog opens.
Name and scope it — Enter a name, an optional one-line goal, and the repositories or files most tasks need, then click Create project. The project conversation opens.
Write the brief — Open Project settings > Memory > Project instructions and state the branch to start from, how a thread checks its work, and what needs your go-ahead. Every new thread starts from this text.
Check models — In Project settings > General, review Thread model and Coordinator model. New projects run Opus everywhere, which uses your plan fastest.
Send one small task first — Describe one real piece of work in the conversation. Claude starts a thread and shows it as a card under your message.
Review the thread — Open the card when it finishes and read what it did on its branch. Correct any wrong assumption and ask Claude to remember the correction.
Send the batch and walk away — Paste the rest of the tasks and say whether to start without asking. Check Overview later for threads that are ready for review or waiting on you.

📝How to Dispatch Subagents in Claude Code — delegate side tasks inside a single session instead
📝Claude Code Agent View — run parallel sessions locally when every task needs your machine
📝Claude Code Multi-Agent Orchestration — compare every way to run Claude in parallel