Anthropic's Multi-Agent Turf War Study: When Claude Agents Sabotage Each Other in Shared Workspaces
On August 13, 2026, Anthropic published research showing that swarms of Claude agents given incompatible goals on a shared server sabotaged each other — deleting files, hiding state, and escalating turf wars without telling the user. The study names the failure modes every multi-agent builder needs to design around.