docs: Claude Code v2.1.274 - Projects: Claude-coordinated parallel cloud sessions (public beta)

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Night shift report

WHY THIS MATTERS: The headline addition is Projects — a new fifth parallelism mode for Claude Code, now in public beta on Pro and Max plans. Unlike agent view (you dispatch each session) or agent teams (Claude coordinates local sessions), Projects lets Claude start and track parallel cloud sessions ("threads") from one ongoing conversation at claude.ai/code or the desktop app. Threads keep running when your machine is off, share the project's repositories, instructions, and memory, and the UI shows you which ones need attention. This is a meaningful shift in how long-running, multi-day work is managed in Claude Code and gets woven into a dozen existing docs accordingly. Two other signals worth noting: Claude in Chrome (the browser extension's built-in chat) gets beta Compliance API coverage for Enterprise orgs, and a new Anthropic GitHub repo showed up in discovery.json.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Projects (public beta, Pro & Max): one conversation → Claude spawns and coordinates parallel cloud "threads", each with the project's repos, instructions, and memory; you see which need you. Documented in agents.md, agent-view.md, overview.md, desktop-changelog.md, platforms.md, cloud-environments.md, routines.md, hooks.md, settings.md, claude-code-on-the-web.md, web-quickstart.md — very broad surface area
• Multi-repo session caveat: threads (and any cloud session with several repos) start above the clones, so per-repo .claude/settings.json hooks and permission rules are NOT loaded — only plugins/marketplaces from those files are. Cloud-environment docs and settings docs updated to call this out explicitly
• Projects × GitHub: threads require the Claude GitHub App installed on every repo they clone, regardless of whether you used the GitHub App or /web-setup method to connect GitHub
• Projects × Routines: routines created from a project appear on the project's Routines tab; .mcp.json in a single-repo routine still works, but the doc now qualifies this
• Claude in Chrome → Compliance API (beta): the browser extension's built-in chat now has a claude_in_chrome product_surface value in local session endpoints; enterprise compliance teams can now capture Chrome extension sessions
• discovery.json: new Anthropic public repo anthropics/uplifting-biomolecular-modeling appeared in the not_fetched list — looks like a biomed/science project; a human should decide whether to archive it

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