Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents

Source: SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, The New Stack Date: 2026-04-08/09

Summary

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents — a composable API suite for building cloud-hosted agents at scale. Key details:

• YAML or natural-language agent definitions
• Sandboxed code execution
• Checkpointing and persistent long-running sessions
• Scoped permissions
• Priced at $0.08/session-hour plus token costs
• Currently in beta
• Early adopters: Notion, Asana, Rakuten, Sentry

Implications

This is Anthropic’s direct play for the enterprise agent platform market. They are now an agent execution runtime, not just a model provider. The pricing ($0.08/session-hour) establishes a cost floor for persistent agent sessions.

This connects to Claude Code’s enterprise hardening arc (Vertex wizard, team onboarding, OS CA trust) — both are enterprise deployment features. Managed Agents is the cloud-hosted version of what Claude Code provides locally. The extension model (hooks + skills + Channels) now has a cloud counterpart.

Conway’s CNW ZIP format may be the extension standard for Managed Agents. The leaked code showed a proprietary package format for custom tools, UI tabs, and context processors — essentially an app store for persistent agents. Managed Agents could be Conway under a different name, or the foundation Conway builds on.