{"version":"2.1.269","anchor":"workflow-orchestration-adds-a-configurable-concurrent-agent","canonical_anchor":"workflow-orchestration-adds-a-configurable-concurrent-agent","heading":"Workflow orchestration adds a configurable concurrent-agent cap","tier":"use","area":"Workflows","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269\/e\/workflow-orchestration-adds-a-configurable-concurrent-agent","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269","markdown":"### Workflow orchestration adds a configurable concurrent-agent cap\n\nWorkflow tool's concurrent-agent limit can now be overridden with an environment variable\n\n**What**\n\nThe Workflow orchestration engine dispatches multiple agents at once, and the maximum number running concurrently was previously fixed at a computed value based on your machine's CPU count (between 2 and 16). That cap can now be overridden by setting the `CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_MAX_CONCURRENT_AGENTS` environment variable, and a debug log line now reports whichever value is actually in effect.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis gives more control over how many agents a workflow runs at once, useful for tuning resource usage on a given machine or lifting the default cap for larger workflows.\n\n- Area: Workflows\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_MAX_CONCURRENT_AGENTS`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}