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Cloudflare and Anthropic have collaborated to integrate Claude Managed Agents with Cloudflare Sandboxes.

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Anthropic describes the integration as "decoupling the brain from the hands."

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The core agent loop runs in Anthropic (the "brain").

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The infrastructure for running and executing code (the "hands") can be run anywhere, including Cloudflare.

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Cloudflare is providing a faster and cheaper sandbox for Claude Agents.

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The faster and cheaper sandbox executes code within a V8 isolate instead of a microVM.

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An example custom tool could host a public file on Cloudflare's R2 object storage.

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Users are encouraged to fork the repo to easily add customized tools.

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Other built-in tools include call_service, which uses Cloudflare Mesh or Workers VPC to connect to private services.

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Possibilities include hosting applications written on the fly with Dynamic Workers.

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Users don't have to worry about infrastructure or scaling.

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Users just write a few lines of code and hit deploy.

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Cloudflare and Anthropic are working together to bring Cloudflare's flexibility, scale, and security to more users.

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The new integration makes it easy to run tens of millions of agents using isolates.

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Possibilities include running edge inference with Workers AI.

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image_generate pairs well with Claude providing text-based inference.

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Customizable proxies allow better observation of how agents interact with the outside world.

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The "Getting Started with Managed Agents guide" helps set up Claude Managed Agents with Cloudflare in minutes.

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The new integration gives users more control over agent sandboxes.

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The new integration secures connections to private services.

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The new integration improves observability for agent sandboxes.

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Cloudflare's Developer Platform has expanded in the past year to give more developers tools to run agents at scale.

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Cloudflare's Developer Platform includes Sandboxes for full stateful Linux microVMs at scale.

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Cloudflare's Developer Platform includes an Agents SDK, providing a simple and customizable agent framework.

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Cloudflare's Developer Platform includes Browser Run, which gives agents fully programmable and observable browsers.

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Cloudflare's Developer Platform includes Dynamic Workers, allowing for dynamic sandboxed code execution at massive scale.

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Cloudflare's goal is to make Cloudflare the simplest, most secure, and most programmable cloud for agents.

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Integrating with Claude Managed Agents is another step in Cloudflare's direction to become the simplest, most secure, and most programmable cloud for agents.

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Users can run their agent loop on the Claude Platform.

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Users can use Cloudflare to execute code for Claude Managed Agents.

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Possibilities include giving each agent session a git-backed repo with Artifacts.

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The default deployment template provides enhanced security by running all agent traffic through customizable proxies.

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A default deployment template has been created to get started in minutes.

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The new integration makes it easy to write custom tools that take advantage of Cloudflare.

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Customizable proxies allow secure injection of credentials.

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Customizable proxies prevent data exfiltration.

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Users can use Cloudflare to run custom tool calls for Claude Managed Agents.

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The default deployment template provides sandbox control and observability.

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Users can get detailed sandbox metrics and logs.

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Users can SSH into running machines.

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Users can customize sandbox images.

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The default deployment template provides lightweight sandboxes.

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Lightweight sandboxes allow writing and executing untrusted code in a traditional microVM or a lightweight isolate.

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Lightweight isolates enable massive scale.

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Lightweight isolates boot sandboxes in milliseconds.

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Lightweight isolates minimize infrastructure spend.

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The default deployment template provides private service connectivity.

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Agents can connect to private internal services without exposing them to the Internet.

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The default deployment template provides Browser Control and Observability.

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Users can get an audit trail of every agent's browser sessions.

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Browser Control and Observability includes session recording.

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Browser Control and Observability includes human-in-the-loop flows.

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The default deployment template provides email functionality for agents.

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Each agent can be given its own email address.

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The default deployment template provides custom tools.

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Users can extend agents with tools without needing additional infrastructure.

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Users just write functions and deploy to create custom tools.

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Claude Managed Agents allow developers to easily define and run agents on the Anthropic platform.

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In Anthropic's managed environments, Claude can read files, run commands, browse the web, and execute code.

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Users can use Cloudflare to secure connections for Claude Managed Agents.

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