Build a Research Agent with Claude Managed Agents (Part 2 of 4) — Anthropic

From a one-line console agent to a research desk with skills, subagents, memory and self-grading outcomes. NEXT UP: AI ENGINEER CODE SUMMIT Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE Summit, Nov 10–12, our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now: https://aie.codes Priyanka Phatak finishes a no-code agent in the console, then Gabe Cemaj leads the hands-on build: a 'research desk' app with a chat UI on the session's event stream. He adds an SEC EDGAR skill, subagents, a custom tool and a shared memory store, then runs an outcome-graded analysis of Nvidia, where a grader checks the work against a rubric and Claude retries until it passes. Q&A covers vaults, the Agent SDK vs managed agents, guardrails, memory sharing and MCP tunnels. This is part 2 of 4 of the Claude Managed Agents workshop from Anthropic. In this video: • Building a chat UI on the session event stream • Outcomes: a task, a rubric and a grader that makes Claude retry • Vaults that swap placeholder secrets at egress • Shared memory stores and self-hosted sandboxes SPEAKERS Priyanka Phatak, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic (leads the Claude Managed Agents engineering team) Gabe Cemaj, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic GitHub: https://github.com/gcemaj LINKS Claude Managed Agents docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overview Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents CHAPTERS 0:00 Q&A: how session storage changed 1:04 Console quick start demo 3:47 The workshop repo 4:41 What we're building 6:10 Workshop skill and project setup 10:16 Q&A: where managed agents run 11:52 Chat interface over the event stream 13:41 Skills, subagents and custom tools 17:41 Outcomes and self-supervision 19:05 Nvidia research session walkthrough 22:40 Updating skills as live artifacts 23:53 Q&A: vaults and credential injection 26:08 Q&A: Agent SDK vs managed agents 27:15 Q&A: guardrails for agent loops 28:04 Q&A: steering and session forking 29:14 Q&A: shared memory and lock-in 31:29 Q&A: grading subagents 33:16 Q&A: private data and MCP tunnels Recorded at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco. Subscribe for more talks from the engineers building with AI. AI Engineer: https://ai.engineer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/ #Claude #AIAgents #AIEngineer