Anthropic adds Managed Agents to Claude for faster AI deployment: All details

Anthropic has announced a new feature for Claude called Managed Agents. This feature aims to help developers build and deploy AI agents much faster. The company describes Claude Managed Agents as a ‘suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale.’

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Until now, creating AI agents meant handling complex backend work such as secure infrastructure, state management, setting permissions and constantly updating systems when models changed. With Managed Agents, developers can now ‘go from prototype to launch in days rather than months,’ according to Anthropic.

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Managed Agents is a set of composable APIs that run on Anthropic’s own infrastructure. Instead of worrying about operational challenges, developers only need to describe what the agent should do, what tools it can use, and what guardrails should be in place. A built-in orchestration system then decides when to use tools, how to manage context and how to recover from errors.

Anthropic says the Managed Agents includes production-grade agents with secure sandboxing, authentication and tool execution handled for you. Also, agents can run for hours in long sessions and their progress is saved even if there are disconnections. There’s also support for multi-agent coordination in the research preview.

The company has also built governance controls into the system. This means agents can access real systems using scoped permissions, identity management and detailed execution tracking.

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Managed Agents is designed specifically for Claude models. In the research preview, developers can define outcomes and success criteria, and Claude will ‘self-evaluate and iterate until it gets there.’

‘In internal testing around structured file generation, Managed Agents improved outcome task success by up to 10 points over a standard prompting loop, with the largest gains on the hardest problems,’ Anthropic said.

Managed Agents is now available in public beta on the Claude Platform.

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