Pattern: Declarative Agent Orchestration Replaces Hand-Wired Subagent Plumbing

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Claude Code's dynamic workflows ('ultracode') let a single natural-language request fan out across tens to hundreds of background agents, signaling a shift from manually scripting subagent task lists and handoffs toward declaring intent and letting the runtime orchestrate. The practical effect is that scale (parallel readers, per-item pipelines, verify stages) becomes a property of the request rather than custom code you maintain. Builders should start thinking in terms of phases and fan-out shapes rather than imperative agent wiring.