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April 11, 2026
Anthropic Launches Hosted Agents That Run for Days
Published: April 11, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Updated: April 11, 2026 at 12:35 AM
100-word summary
Anthropic just opened beta access to Claude Managed Agents, cloud-hosted APIs that let AI assistants run tasks for hours or days without you babysitting the session. The suite handles sandboxing, authentication, and memory so developers don't rebuild the same plumbing for every project. Notion is already using it to let Claude ship code and build websites in parallel, while Rakuten has agents working across sales, marketing, and finance that plug directly into Slack and Teams. What you couldn't do yesterday: hand Claude a multi-hour task, close your laptop, and pick up results later. The promise is prototypes go live in days instead of months.
What happened
Anthropic just opened beta access to Claude Managed Agents, cloud-hosted APIs that let AI assistants run tasks for hours or days without you babysitting the session. The suite handles sandboxing, authentication, and memory so developers don't rebuild the same plumbing for every project. Notion is already using it to let Claude ship code and build websites in parallel, while Rakuten has agents working across sales, marketing, and finance that plug directly into Slack and Teams. What you couldn't do yesterday: hand Claude a multi-hour task, close your laptop, and pick up results later.
Why it matters
The promise is prototypes go live in days instead of months.