If you are new to Claude Code, turn off dynamic workflows before they burn through your usage limit.

Last week in my workshop, this caught a few learners off guard. One prompt spun up 100+ agents to research “AI patterns to avoid in web design,” and burned through their Claude usage limit about 15 minutes into the workshop. We had to stop everyone and switch it off on the spot just to keep the session moving.

Here is what happened.

On 28 May, Anthropic shipped dynamic workflows alongside Claude Opus 4.8. Instead of working through your task turn by turn, Claude can now write a script that fans out to many subagents at once. A single run can spawn up to 1,000 agents.

For the right job, this is genuinely useful. Codebase-wide audits. 500-file migrations. Research questions where every source gets cross-checked against the others. Big work that one conversation cannot hold.

For a beginner who did not ask for it, it is a footgun.

The catch: dynamic workflows are ON by default.

How to turn it off:

1. Type /config and press Enter.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to move to the “Dynamic workflows” row.

3. Press Enter (or the spacebar) to switch it off.

4. Press Esc to close the menu.

That persists across sessions. Power users can also set “disableWorkflows”: true in ~/.claude/settings.json, or export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_WORKFLOWS=1.

This is the expert-in-the-loop point in one feature. 1,000 agents do not make the answer better. They multiply whatever judgment is driving them. The expert decides when a task is actually big enough to fan out. A beginner who triggers it by accident just pays more for the same average answer.

So before you switch it on: if you run codebase audits, migrations, or deep research, learn it well and it earns its cost. If you are still learning the basics, keep it off until you know exactly when you want 1,000 agents working at once.

Docs: https://lnkd.in/gqD5HP9T

Small things like this are easy to miss when you are starting out. If you are new to Claude Code and want to learn the foundations hands-on, I run a Foundations of Claude Code workshop. The next cohorts are on 18 June (2 slots left) and 2 July.

Details: https://lnkd.in/e9r8kScw

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