Decoupling the Brain from the Hands: Claude Managed Agents (Part 1 of 4) — Anthropic
Priyanka Phatak, who leads the Claude Managed Agents engineering team at Anthropic, defines an agent as a model in a loop with tools, plus a harness and a sandbox, and explains why harnesses encode assumptions that go stale with each new model.
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Key points
- The first version of Claude Managed Agents put everything in one container.
- Here's why Anthropic split it apart.
- NEXT UP: AI ENGINEER CODE SUMMIT
- This is part 1 of 4 of the Claude Managed Agents workshop from Anthropic.
Sources (1)
- [1]Decoupling the Brain from the Hands: Claude Managed Agents (Part 1 of 4) — AnthropicAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 12, 05:44 AM
Priyanka Phatak, who leads the Claude Managed Agents engineering team at Anthropic, defines an agent as a model in a loop with tools, plus a harness and a sandbox, and explains why harnesses encode assumptions that go stale with each new model.
The first version of Claude Managed Agents put everything in one container.
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