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# Vercel's Chat SDK now runs Claude Managed Agents: a few lines of code, 30-plus apps
- URL: https://globalfeed.ai/en/vercels-chat-sdk-now-runs-claude-managed-agents-a-few-lines-of-code-30-plus-apps/
- Published: 2026-08-28T03:08:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-30T14:49:59.000Z
- Description: Anthropic runs the agent loop server-side; Vercel supplies the chat interface. Moving the same handler from Slack to WhatsApp takes a few line changes, and there is no separate database to run.
- Author: GlobalFeed Editor
- Tags: Vercel, Anthropic, partnership, agents, developer tools, x-vercel_dev, x-AnthropicAI, dil-en, elle

Vercel has announced that **Chat SDK**, its chat interface library, can now run Anthropic's **Claude Managed Agents**. The division of labour is clear: Anthropic runs the agent loop server-side, Vercel provides the interface and the deployment.

What stays on Anthropic's side is the model, the tools, session state and sandboxed web research. A developer does not have to stand any of that up on their own infrastructure.

What Vercel adds is a single type-safe handler. Changing a few lines in that handler carries the agent to Slack, Teams, Discord, WhatsApp and more than 30 other platforms; an adapter takes over instead of a separate integration per platform.

Three details matter in practice. Replies arrive **token by token** over a single streamed response, so they render as the model writes. Tool calls and model requests are available as a **live activity feed** while the turn runs, making it possible to surface a trace inside the chat. And there is **no database to run**: the Managed Agents session stores the conversation, and the sidebar, transcript and replay read from it.

The worked example is a research bot on Slack that keeps one persistent session per thread and streams briefs with sources.

*Disclosure: GlobalFeed's news pipeline uses Anthropic models among others.*

The announcement is in [Vercel's changelog](https://vercel.com/changelog/claude-managed-agents-with-chat-sdk?ref=globalfeed.ai); the open-source template is [on GitHub](https://github.com/vercel-labs/claude-managed-agents-starter?ref=globalfeed.ai).