ATWZ Gives Claude Code Agent Teams a Filesystem 'Workstation' So Teammate State Survives Compaction and Terminal Close
'Agent Team Work Zone' (arXiv 2607.22917, July 24) names four concrete failure modes in long-lived Claude Code agent teams: irrecoverable teams (teammate working state is lost when the process stops), compaction eroding working detail, agentic 'technical debt' trapped in compacted old chats, and heavy repeated prompt-writing for handoffs. ATWZ is a filesystem-based operations layer over Claude Code's native Agent Teams that treats each teammate as an employee with a dedicated 'workstation' directory holding its state plus the skills, hooks, and scripts that maintain it. Teams back up state periodically, recover knowledge after compaction, and restore with a single command; agents can also send documents to each other instead of re-prompting. This is one of the few academic papers written directly against the Claude Code agent-teams primitive.
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