Anthropic has introduced Claude Managed Agents, a comprehensive API suite designed to simplify building and deploying cloud-hosted AI agents directly on the Claude Platform. Launched in public beta on April 8, the service provides enterprise-grade infrastructure including secure sandboxing, long-running sessions, multi-agent coordination, and built-in governance features.

Key Capabilities

The platform handles the heavy lifting of agent development with production-ready features like secure code execution environments, credential management, scoped permissions, and comprehensive execution tracing. Developers define tasks, tools, and guardrails, while Anthropic’s orchestration layer manages tool calls, context handling, and error recovery automatically.

Managed Agents support autonomous long-running sessions that persist through disconnections, enabling complex workflows that can operate for hours. Early adopters like Notion, Rakuten, and Sentry are already using the platform, with Anthropic reporting up to 10 percentage point improvements in task success rates during internal testing of structured file generation tasks.

Production-Ready Infrastructure

Unlike traditional agent frameworks that require custom infrastructure, Claude Managed Agents run entirely on Anthropic’s cloud with built-in security and scalability. The service eliminates months of development time spent on state management, sandboxing, and reliability engineering, letting developers focus on defining agent behavior and outcomes.

This launch positions Anthropic as a leader in production agent infrastructure, bridging the gap between experimental AI agents and enterprise deployment at scale.