Anthropic has introduced Claude Managed Agents, a new set of APIs to help developers build and deploy cloud-hosted AI agents with reduced infrastructure effort.
The company said developers can access the feature through the Claude Platform, its console, or a command-line interface for deployment.
Managed Agents is priced based on standard token rates and an additional $0.08 per session-hour for runtime.
The product aims to address challenges in taking AI agents from prototype to production, including infrastructure setup, state management, permissions, and system reliability.
According to Anthropic, Managed Agents allows teams to “go from prototype to launch in days rather than months.”
“Managed Agents handles the complexity. You define your agent’s tasks, tools, and guardrails, and we run it on our infrastructure,” the company said in its announcement.
The system offers features such as secure sandboxed execution, authentication, tool orchestration, and long-running sessions that can operate autonomously for extended periods. It also supports multi-agent coordination, currently available in research preview, where agents can delegate tasks to other agents.
Anthropic said the platform includes built-in governance controls, including scoped permissions, identity management, and execution tracing. Developers can monitor agent behaviour through session tracing and analytics tools in the Claude Console.
The company stated that its models are optimised for agent-based workflows.
“With Managed Agents, you define outcomes and success criteria, and Claude self-evaluates and iterates until it gets there,” Anthropic said, noting that this capability is in research preview.
In internal testing, the company reported improved task success rates in structured file generation compared to standard prompting approaches.
Several companies have already deployed Managed Agents, it added. Connected workspaces company Notion is integrating the system into its platform to allow users to delegate tasks to AI agents. Meanwhile, Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten has deployed agents across business functions, integrating them into communication tools like Slack and Teams.
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