Jul 21, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
Claude Code Workflows introduce a new way to orchestrate AI coding agents, but what do they actually change for engineering teams?In this episode of The Context Window, Brandon Mathis, Jonathan…
Brandon MathisHost
Jonathan FontanezGuest
Coston PerkinsGuest
But like, before I get into that, because this whole idea, like, let's be real, come on, like this whole idea of like running coding agents via deterministic workflows.
But this Cloud Workflows, for the viewers of y'all who aren't really caught up on what this is, this is a new feature that's come out in Cloud Code.
And the idea is that, you know, originally with Cloud, you've had skills and we've been using skills a lot.
And now workflows is sort of like a new take on this idea of like a reusable component of functionality that you can pass around with your team.
And essentially with the Cloud workflow is you can make a TypeScript file, that runs like code.
And you can call these key functions, such as agent, parallel, pipeline, log, things like that.
And it knows that you're saying, oh, you want me to make an agent that's going to do x, and another one that's going to do y, and another one that's going to do b, and you want it to run in parallel.
And then you want them to pipe their output or some fixed artifacts into a final agent.
And I know I've been rambling a lot because I just wanted to lay the groundwork.
Because it's a little bit of an abstract topic, right? But I just wanted to lay the groundwork.
But like, before I get into that, because this whole idea, like, let's be real, come on, like this whole idea of like running coding agents via deterministic workflows.
But this Cloud Workflows, for the viewers of y'all who aren't really caught up on what this is, this is a new feature that's come out in Cloud Code.
And the idea is that, you know, originally with Cloud, you've had skills and we've been using skills a lot.
And now workflows is sort of like a new take on this idea of like a reusable component of functionality that you can pass around with your team.
And essentially with the Cloud workflow is you can make a TypeScript file, that runs like code.
And you can call these key functions, such as agent, parallel, pipeline, log, things like that.
And it knows that you're saying, oh, you want me to make an agent that's going to do x, and another one that's going to do y, and another one that's going to do b, and you want it to run in parallel.
And then you want them to pipe their output or some fixed artifacts into a final agent.
And I know I've been rambling a lot because I just wanted to lay the groundwork.
Because it's a little bit of an abstract topic, right? But I just wanted to lay the groundwork.
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