workflowSizeGuideline
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.219 and was gone by v2.1.284.
Set the agent count Claude aims for in dynamic workflows
Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-10-22.
In the changelogs
6Releases whose published page names workflowSizeGuideline.
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v2.1.271
Workflow size guideline default now varies by account plan
The default workflow-size guideline is now stricter and varies by account plan
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v2.1.271
Dynamic workflow tool: input coercion and streamed-repair exemption now gated together
Workflow tool's input-repair exemptions are now tied to the same flag as input coercion, and its guidance text is now tier-aware
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v2.1.219
Workflow size guideline now defaults to medium instead of unrestricted
Without configuration, sessions now advise fewer than 15 agents per workflow; change it in /config.
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v2.1.219
New setting: workflowSizeGuideline
Cap how big Claude's dynamic workflows get with a new workflowSizeGuideline setting.
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v2.1.219
"Dynamic workflow size" hidden when a policy pins it
The workflow size setting disappears from config when your organization has already fixed it.
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v2.1.202
Dynamic Workflow Size Setting in /config
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted workflowSizeGuideline was v2.1.202, 6 Jul 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
78One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.