This article was prepared with AI assistance, using ccdeck’s source code and documentation to check the technical details.

I build ccdeck , one of the tools that shows what Agent View leaves out, so read its part as one side of the comparison; the short version, with every source, is at ccdeck.dev/agent-view . Agent View is quoted from Anthropic's documentation as I read it on 29 October 2026, the --json output is from Claude Code 2.1.312, and ccdeck is described as of 3.49.1.

What Agent View is

From the docs: "Agent view, opened with claude agents , is one screen for all your background sessions: what's running, what needs your input, and what's done." It is new, and the docs say so up front: "Agent view is in research preview. The interface and keyboard shortcuts may change as the feature evolves."

What it does:

Start work. Type a task and press Enter , and a new background session starts on it. From a shell, claude --bg "<prompt>" does the same.

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