When the Model Company Builds the Factory: What It Takes to Build Agent-as-a-Service

Anthropic just launched Managed Agents. The open-source world has been learning the hard way why this matters. On April 8, 2025, Anthropic launched the public beta of Claude Managed Agents -- a fully hosted platform for running AI agents with built-in sandboxing, session management, error recovery, and permission control. Four days earlier, the company had quietly cut off third-party agent frameworks like OpenClaw from using Claude subscription quotas, forcing them onto pay-per-use billing....