Managed Agents
Also: Claude Managed Agents, cloud agents
Managed Agents are cloud-hosted AI agents that Anthropic runs for you. Instead of building and hosting your own agent infrastructure, you define what the agent should do and Anthropic handles execution — secure sandboxing, long-running sessions, tool access, and scaling. Think of it as Claude-as-a-worker: you assign a task, it runs in the cloud, and you get the result. Currently in public beta at $0.08/session-hour plus token costs.
In practice
You build an agent that drafts weekly status reports. You deploy it through Anthropic's managed infrastructure — it runs on a schedule, Anthropic handles the compute, logging, and uptime, and you just configure what it does. Managed Agents are hosted agents where Anthropic manages the runtime so you don't have to.
Related concepts
Where Managed Agents shows up
2 articlesAnthropic just launched Managed Agents. Here is what they do, who they are for, and how to think about whether your team should use them.
Between August 7 and August 19, 2026, Anthropic shipped a hard spend cap per Managed Agents session, an advisor model the primary thread can consult mid-turn, inference geo pinning, GitHub-loaded Skills, memory stores in self-hosted sandboxes, and a rebuilt session viewer. Taken together, this is the month Managed Agents became something you can put a budget behind.