Anthropic ships Claude Managed Agents public beta: cron schedules + credential vaults

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On 2026-06-09 Anthropic moved two Managed Agents capabilities to public beta on the Claude Platform: scheduled deployments (agents attached to a cron schedule that spin up a fresh session each fire, with pause/resume/archive/manual-trigger controls) and environment variables stored in vaults so agents can authenticate to CLI tools and external services without leaking credentials. These target the unglamorous orchestration plumbing — who triggers an agent with no human present, and how it logs in safely — that has kept enterprise agent projects stuck in pilot. Rakuten and Browserbase are cited as early adopters automating nightly syncs and recurring compliance work.