Summary
This official tutorial from Anthropic’s Claude channel explains how to manage long, multi-hour Claude Code sessions without losing direction. The video introduces five core mechanisms that together allow users to run extended autonomous coding tasks with meaningful control over the agent’s trajectory.
Plan Mode puts Claude into read-only research mode before any files are touched, producing a structured plan the user can review and refine — catching misaligned assumptions before they compound across hours of execution. The Compact command summarizes conversation history to reclaim context window space, but the video emphasizes passing additional instructions alongside it to specify what should be preserved or discarded. Rewind, accessed by double-tapping Escape on an empty prompt, provides a checkpoint system at every user prompt: users can restore code, conversation, or both, and can selectively summarize forward or backward from any checkpoint to manage context without losing implementation detail.
For more autonomous operation, the Goal command lets users define completion conditions in plain language — for example, “all tests and source billing pass and the type checker reports zero errors” — and Claude continues working across turns until a transcript-readable evaluator confirms the criteria are met. The Loop command polls an external state source on a schedule, useful for watching CI results or deployment status. Finally, the video covers Git worktrees for running multiple Claude agents in parallel on the same repository, with each session getting an isolated file tree and a `.worktree-include` file controlling which local configs are copied in to prevent conflicts.
📺 Source: Claude · Published September 03, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
