# Quickly spawn new agent sessions (not subagents) in a new pane

Published: 2026-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/pane-skill

Sometimes I'll start a session, and then want to branch a task into a new session in a new pane.

For example, at the end of my [daily briefing](https://github.com/HartreeWorks/skill--chief-of-staff/blob/main/examples/sample-briefing.md), the agent will offer to help with several unrelated workstreams:

![chief of staff briefing preview](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/skill-pane-illustration.jpeg)

I want to start several of these tasks in parallel, in independent sessions that I can easily observe and chat with.

My [/pane skill](https://github.com/HartreeWorks/skill--pane) makes that easy.

I'll say: `do tasks 1 and 3 in new panes` and it'll write a handoff prompt, spawn a new pane, and ask the agent to get to work.

[Loom video](https://www.loom.com/share/fec632abb13f4ff289b1123333377a1c)

I have similar skills to spawn new [tabs](https://github.com/HartreeWorks/skill--tab) and [windows](https://github.com/HartreeWorks/skill--window).

Related: Claude has an [agent view](https://claude.com/blog/agent-view-in-claude-code) for managing subagents (I hate it).