# Claude Managed Agents: How They Work and Where They Fit

DevFeed: [Claude Managed Agents: How They Work and Where They Fit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/claude-managed-agents-how-they-work-and-where-they-fit-17431.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.port.io/blog/claude-managed-agents>)

Author: Matar Peles

Published: 2026-09-14T11:29:41Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Blog | Port](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/developer-experience-platform-engineering-blog-port.md>)

Topics: [Agent Harness](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-harness.md>), [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [sandbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sandbox.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdlc.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains Claude Managed Agents, a hosted runtime and managed agent harness operated by Anthropic. It describes how the harness coordinates tools and execution, the sandbox provides isolated command and file access, and the session preserves durable task history outside the model's context window. It also discusses the additional platform layer needed to connect multiple agents across a business process and the SDLC.

## Source excerpt

What Claude Managed Agents are, how the runtime works, and how platform teams connect several agents across the SDLC.