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Why One AI Agent Isn’t Enough (And How to Run 1,000) - CJ Avilla & Harrison Stall, Anthropic
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Scroll to read ↓CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall explain how Claude Managed Agents Flows divide work, allocate compute across phases, and put controls around long-running agent systems.
- Flows let a lead agent plan phases and delegate discrete work; at the time of the talk, the speakers describe a 1,000-agent limit and one layer of nesting.13:50 ↗
- Use isolated contexts for narrow assignments and independent review, then evaluate coverage and quality rather than assuming parallelism guarantees either.26:24 ↗
- Budgets, event streams and interrupts support inspection and intervention during long runs; raising a reached budget can resume completed work without starting over.15:20 ↗
- Keep real credentials outside the agent environment, constrain where they can be injected, and separately restrict tools and network access.1:22:50 ↗