Anthropic Just Dropped Claude Managed Agents

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Watch my free 3-hour Claude Code course (zero to deploying your first web app) ⤵️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR1lI4V0oKE 10+ free Claude Code and Codex tutorials ⤵️ https://ai-mba.io/tutorials Go deeper inside The AI MBA Pro — weekly live calls, advanced builds, and direct access as you ship with Claude Code and Codex ⤵️ https://www.skool.com/the-ai-mba-pro-4940/about Join 1600+ AI builders working to make money, build apps, and push forward their careers with Claude Code and Codex ⤵️ https://www.skool.com/the-ai-mba I use Wispr Flow daily to dictate faster and think more clearly while building ⤵️ https://ref.wisprflow.ai/aniket-panjwani Summary ⤵️ Anthropic just shipped Claude Managed Agents — a hosted way to define agents, tools, and guardrails and let them run autonomously on Anthropic's infrastructure for hours, without you having to build your own state management, sandboxing, or harness loops. I walk through Anthropic's engineering blog on why harnesses go stale every model release, then spin up a real customer support agent connected to Slack and Notion live on camera. The result works — and then I show you the bill, explain why $1.97 for a 2-minute task probably isn't worth it for most use cases, and point at the open-source alternatives I actually use day to day. Links 🚀 Claude Managed Agents launch post: https://www.anthropic.com/news/managed-agents Managed Agents docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overview Anthropic engineering blog on building Managed Agents: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents Follow me on other platforms 😈 🕊️ Twitter/X: https://x.com/aniketapanjwani 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aniket-a-panjwani 🤙 Work with me: https://contentquant.io Why watch? If this is your first view—hi, I'm Aniket! TLDR: I've worked for six years as an MLOps engineer at Zelle building financial AI models, automations and data pipelines saving consumers from tens of millions of dollars of fraud. Now, I use my professional and academic expertise (PhD Economics from Northwestern University) to help businesses automate tedious but critical processes to drive revenue and innovation. Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life 🙏 Like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks. 0:00 Anthropic just dropped Claude Managed Agents 0:30 What managed agents actually do (define agents, tools, guardrails — Anthropic runs them) 1:03 Real launch examples: Notion, Vibe Code, Sentry integrations 2:18 Console GUI vs Claude Code interface for building agents 2:30 Pricing reality: it runs on your API key, so think ROI 2:43 Anthropic engineering blog: harnesses encode assumptions that go stale 3:08 "LLMs eat scaffolding for breakfast" — Nicolas Bustamante's framing 3:54 Context anxiety, context resets, and why harnesses become dead weight 4:35 Pet vs cattle: decoupling the agent brain from the sandbox hands 5:51 Designing for future harnesses, sandboxes, and models 6:28 Building a real customer support agent live (Slack + Notion + Pay Slice) 6:51 Walking through the YAML: system prompt, MCP servers, tool sets 7:21 Configure environment: limited vs unlimited tool access 8:13 Storing secrets and credentials safely 8:51 Connecting Slack, Notion, and Gmail via Claude.ai 10:12 First test run: Slack message summarizing the Notion workspace 10:42 It works — about two and a half minutes end to end 11:33 The cost reveal: $1.97 for one short session 11:56 Why I wouldn't recommend this for most people (Pi + Codex/OpenRouter alternative) 13:35 When managed agents are actually worth $2 (sales, time-to-lead, enterprise) 14:02 Outro: free Claude Code course and the AI MBA community