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Orchestration

The orchestration layer is the agent loop — the heart of Claude Code. It receives your prompt, decides which tools to call, executes them (sometimes in parallel), and loops until the task is done. It also manages auto-compaction when conversations get too long.

AT A GLANCE

~85

Slash Commands

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80+

React Hooks

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200k

Compaction Trigger

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Task Types

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The Agent Loop

💬User Input

🧠Claude Thinks

🔧Tool Call

📋Result Back

❓More Tools?

↩ loop

Parallel vs Sequential

Each tool waits for the previous one

Read config.ts

→ 200ms

Edit config.ts

→ 400ms

Bash: npm test

→ 600ms

Total: ~600ms

Auto-Compaction

0200k tokens1M

threshold

0k tokens

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