Reading a crowd of agents
Mission control
Mission control is a single view that lists every running agent with its status, with the tasks that are waiting for the human shown first.
Control sits with the person
When to use it
As soon as a person can have more than two agents running at once.
What it prevents
Losing track of agents that run in parallel, where it is hard to tell what they are doing right now.
Agents running2 need you
Contract reviewWaiting on you12 min
Invoice matchingWaiting on you3 min
Market sweepRunningstep 8 of 14
Nightly checkDone02:04
Blocked first, because that is the only row you can act on.
Where it is used
- Google Antigravity: the Manager view
- Cursor: parallel cloud agents
- Claude Code agent teams: shipped as a research preview in early 2026
Sources
Related patterns: Agent inbox · Orchestrator and workers
Worked through as a deck: Reading a crowd of agents