Building Effective AI Agents
…By following these principles, you can create agents that are not only powerful but also reliable, maintainable, and trusted by their users. Acknowledgements Written by Erik S. and Barry Zhang. This work…
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Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
…But token cost isn't the only issue. The most common failures are wrong tool selection and incorrect parameters, especially when tools have similar names like notification-send-user vs. notification-send…
Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands
…container, but because that container often also held user data, that approach essentially meant we lacked the ability to debug. A second issue was that the harness assumed that whatever Claude worked…
How we contain Claude across products
…Moving the agent loop outside of the VM, while keeping code execution inside of it, allowed Claude to still respond to the user and help debug issues rather than freeze on an…
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
…Second, our Claude Code data suggests that experienced users tend to grant the tool more independence, and complex tasks may disproportionately come from experienced users. While we cannot directly measure user tenure…
Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions
…A user asked to "clean up old branches." The agent listed remote branches, constructed a pattern match, and issued a delete. This would be blocked since the request was vague, the action…
Claude Opus 4.6
…Claude Opus 4.6 autonomously closed 13 issues and assigned 12 issues to the right team members in a single day, managing a ~50-person organization across 6 repositories. It handled both…
Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves
…Users deploying programmatic workflows may have more reason to switch between models compared to web users. Learning curves The first Claude model was released in March 2023. Since then, the userbase on…
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