Claude Managed Agents: The Layer That Disappears, The Layer That Stays — A View from Business Automation Agents

On April 8, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Managed Agents. The official framing is "meta-harness," and the engineering blog reports infrastructure-level improvements: p50 TTFT down about 60%, p95 down more than 90%. TTFT is the time from request to first response, where p50 is the median and p95 co