Claude Managed Agents - 10x Faster Production Speed

Claude Managed Agents is a composable API suite for building and deploying large-scale AI agents in cloud environments. It aims to shorten to just days the agent prototype-to-production transition process that previously took months.

Users can focus solely on task definitions, tools, and guardrails without needing to build complex production-grade infrastructure themselves, such as security sandboxing, credential management, permission control, and state management. A built-in orchestration engine automatically handles tool call timing, context management, and error recovery.

Key Features and Characteristics:

• Automated Production Infrastructure: Supports code execution within secure sandboxes, authentication, tool execution, and end-to-end tracing.
• Long-Running Session Support: Operates autonomously for hours, maintaining progress and output even if the connection is lost.
• Multi-Agent Collaboration: Multiple agents can create or direct one another to perform complex tasks in parallel (research preview).
• Claude Model Optimization: Through a design optimized for agent-centric tasks, it shows up to a 10-point performance improvement over standard prompt loops in tasks such as structured file generation.

Real-World Use Cases:

• Notion: Operating Custom Agents that delegate tasks within workspaces.
• Rakuten: Deployed specialized agents across company-wide divisions within 1 week.
• Asana: Implementing AI Teammates that collaborate with humans within projects.
• Sentry: Automating the flow from bug detection to patch writing in a single flow.

Pricing Structure: Offered under a usage-based pricing model, with an additional $0.08 per session hour on top of standard Claude Platform token rates.