Claude Managed Agents — The Complete Guide: Brain/Hands/Session Architecture, MCP Connectors, and Multi-Agent Orchestration

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Claude Managed Agents - The Complete Guide: Brain/Hands/Session Decoupled Architecture, MCP Connectors, and Multi-Agent Orchestration for Production AI On April 8, 2026 Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents - a fully hosted agent harness that handles the execution loop, sandboxing, tool orchestration, session persistence, and event streaming. This post dissects the architecture, walks through MCP connector wiring, nstrates multi-agent orchestration patterns, and analyzes three real production deployments (Notion, Rakuten, Sentry). 1.