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Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands \ Anthropic

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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Get started with Claude Managed Agents by following our docs . A running topic on the Engineering Blog is how to build effective agents and design harnesses for long-running work . A common thread across this work is that harnesses encode assumptions about what Claude can’t do on its own. However, those assumptions need to be frequently questioned because they can go stale as models improve. As just one example, in prior work we found that Claude Sonnet 4.5 would wrap up tasks prematurely as it sensed its context limit approaching—a behavior sometimes called “context anxiety.” We addressed thi

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