Decoupling the Brain from the Hands: Claude Managed Agents (Part 1 of 4) — Anthropic
Anthropic's engineering team publicly details Claude Managed Agents architecture and infrastructure learnings
“An agent is essentially a model in a loop with tools.”
Anthropic engineers Priyanka and Gabe Semack presented a hands-on seminar at AI Engineer detailing how they built and scaled Claude Managed Agents over the past year, sharing pitfalls and lessons learned. The talk frames the core agent primitive as 'a model in a loop with tools' and introduces the concept of a 'harness' layer that orchestrates tool execution. This is notable as a rare public deep-dive from the team that owns Anthropic's production agent infrastructure.