Claude Managed Agents overview
Anthropic documents Managed Agents as a pre-built, configurable harness with managed infrastructure, cloud environments, tools, MCP servers, skills, sessions, and long-running execution.
Anthropic documents Managed Agents as a pre-built, configurable harness with managed infrastructure, cloud environments, tools, MCP servers, skills, sessions, and long-running execution
Citations
By 2027-02-01, at least one major AI platform will price off-the-shelf or rentable agents using an opaque blended unit such as credits, intelligence units, or agent capacity, where the customer-facing meter combines model choice, token use, tool calls, data access, execution speed, and runtime rather than exposing tokens or wall-clock time as the primary billable unit.
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By 2027-06-30, a recognizable agent resource layer will exist in which user-facing orchestrator agents act as human-to-agent-to-agents interfaces and delegate work to specialized remote worker agents or harnesses through A2A, an A2A-compatible protocol, or a directly comparable agent-to-agent contract.
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By 2027-05-14, at least one major AI assistant or cloud platform will launch a public or partner agent marketplace/directory where users can discover, install, rent, or invoke third-party or provider-curated agents, positioning agents as the next distribution layer after apps, plugins, and GPT-style stores.
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By 2027-05-14, at least one major AI platform will offer rentable, preconfigured agent harnesses for specific professional task domains, priced by credits, token consumption, execution time, completed work units, or a mixture, so that a user or organization can launch a specialized task agent without building and operating the harness from scratch.
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Agent harnesses will move onto the shelf
2026-05-14
App stores will evolve into agent markets
2026-05-14