Anthropic lets companies self-host Claude Managed Agents, keeping agent histories and credentials in-house
Announced · Published · By Contractor AI Shop
Anthropic now lets companies run its Claude Managed Agents service on their own cloud or data-center servers, storing agents, sessions and history there. Model calls still go to Anthropic or a provider the company picks, so prompts leave the network. Access is by request through Anthropic's account team.
Key facts
- Anthropic's Nov 12, 2026 release notes say customers can run the whole Managed Agents service, not only self-hosted sandboxes, on their own infrastructure, and store agents, sessions and session history there. The server sends model requests to the provider the customer chooses, which is Anthropic by default. Access is by request through the Anthropic account team. Claude Platform release notes (Anthropic)
- Anthropic's docs list Amazon Bedrock, Claude Models on Google Cloud (Google managed), Microsoft Foundry or the customer's own model gateway as inference options. For each model call, the server sends the conversation so far, including tool inputs and tool results, to that provider. Claude Platform docs (Anthropic)
- The customer runs and secures the server, its PostgreSQL database and the sandboxes, and installs each release. Anthropic says some features exist only on the hosted service. Claude Platform docs (Anthropic)
- Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec, Nov 12) reports the option opened as a private beta and that Claude itself still runs outside the customer's network, so prompts go out and completions come back. Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec)
- The Next Web (Ana Maria Constantin, Nov 12) reports that nothing moves over from Anthropic's hosted service, so agents and saved data must be rebuilt, and that some features, such as webhooks and scheduled runs, are missing. The Next Web (Ana Maria Constantin)
Our take: what it means for contractors
Enterprise plumbing, not a small-contractor tool. The useful point: "self-hosted" here doesn't mean the model runs on your own machine. Your prompts still leave the building.
What we don't know yet
- Pricing for the self-hosted version (none is stated)
- Which other hosted features are missing at launch beyond webhooks and scheduled runs (per The Next Web)
Sources
- Claude Platform release notes (Anthropic) · Claude Platform release notes: November 12, 2026 · 2026-11-12 · Primary
- Claude Platform docs (Anthropic) · Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents · 2026-11-12 · Primary
- Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec) · Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents keeps agent credentials in your environment · 2026-11-12 · Secondary
- The Next Web (Ana Maria Constantin) · Anthropic lets companies run Claude’s agent service on their own servers · 2026-11-12 · Secondary