Claude Managed Agents removes the infrastructure burden of running autonomous Claude workflows: Anthropic handles sandboxing, tool execution, and event delivery via server-sent events. Developers point the API at a task and receive a managed agent loop rather than building their own orchestration layer. Built-in tools and secure execution environments are included out of the box. The public beta lowers the entry cost for teams that want production-grade agentic behavior without maintaining custom orchestration. It also signals Anthropic's push up the stack — competing not just on model quality but on the managed runtime layer that makes agents deployable and auditable at scale.