Reading a crowd of agents
Mission control
Mission control is a single surface listing every running agent with its status, so supervision is a scan rather than a set of tab switches, with the runs blocked on a person 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
Parallel work becoming invisible work, where nobody can answer what is happening 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.
Who ships it
- 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