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A new feature lets Claude Managed Agents refine their memories.
Managed Agents speeds agent build and deployment 10x.
Anthropic continues to anthropomorphize its products.
AI agents seem to get new capabilities almost every day. Now, Anthropic says its agents can dream.
Claude Managed Agents, which Anthropic released on April 8, lets anyone using the Claude Platform create and deploy AI agents. The suite of APIs handles the time-consuming production elements developers go through to build agents, letting teams launch agents at scale -- 10 times faster, as Anthropic said in the release.
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On Wednesday, during its Code with Claude event, Anthropic updated Managed Agents with a new feature called "dreaming," which lets agents "self-improve" by reviewing past sessions for patterns, according to Anthropic. Building on an existing memory capability, the feature schedules time for agents to reflect on and learn from their past interactions. Once dreaming is on, it can either automatically update your agents' memories to shape future behavior or you can select which incoming changes to approve.
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