Anthropic Managed Agents Architecture: Decoupling Brain from Hands for Scalable AI Agents

Anthropic Managed Agents Architecture: Decoupling Brain from Hands Anthropic published "Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands" on April 8, 2026. It's the most detailed look at production AI agent infrastructure I've read this year. Here's the architecture breakdown. The Problem: Monolithic Agents Don't Scale The initial approach was obvious — put everything in one container. Session state, the orchestration loop, and code execution all ran in a single process....