A note in this repository, Claude/managed-agents/README.md, summarizing Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents overview documentation, reviewed on 2026-09-15. The product was in beta and every request needed the managed-agents-2026-04-01 header.1
Takeaways
- Managed Agents is a hosted agent harness: Anthropic runs the loop, sandbox, and tool execution, and you send events.1 See Claude Managed Agents.
- It trades the Messages API’s control over every model call for managed infrastructure.1
- Being stateful, it was not eligible for Zero Data Retention or HIPAA BAA coverage at review time.1