Claude Managed Agents on Vercel's Agentic Infrastructure - Ship 26 NYC
Split the brains from the hands. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Harrison (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) introduces Claude Managed Agents and its new self-hosted sandboxes feature, shipped in partnership with Vercel Sandbox: Anthropic runs the agent loop, and every bash command and file operation runs in a sandbox you entirely control. CHAPTERS 0:00 Agents are only useful when they can do things 1:03 What is Claude Managed Agents? 2:26 The cost of rolling your own harness 3:58 The brains and the hands 4:50 Self-hosted sandboxes with Vercel 6:44 Bring the agent to the data 10:58 Three ownership layers 11:47 Setup in a few lines of code 13:01 Demo: an EHR analyzer on Claude Opus 4.8 LINKS Self-hosted sandboxes docs → https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-hosted-sandboxes Announcement → https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents-updates Vercel guide → https://vercel.com/kb/guide/run-claude-managed-agent-tools-with-vercel-sandbox Vercel Sandbox → https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-sandbox Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #Anthropic #Claude #AIAgents #Sandbox