Claude Managed Agents Learn to Dream, Spawn Specialist Sub-Agents and Set Their Own Success Criteria
At Code w/ Claude 2026, Anthropic shipped three big upgrades to Claude Managed Agents. A research-preview 'dreaming' mode reviews up to 100 past sessions to tidy memory and surface recurring patterns, multi-agent orchestration lets a lead agent delegate work to as many as 20 specialists running in parallel, and outcomes lets developers define explicit success criteria so Claude iterates without constant hand-holding.