Anthropic walks through building scheduled agent automations with Claude Managed Agents

Anthropic published a reference implementation for Claude Managed Agents (beta) that reads Slack channels and GitHub pull requests on a cron schedule, tracks changes since the last run via per-source bookmarks, and posts a brief to Slack. The walkthrough covers vault-held credentials, read-only access and a per-run spending cap, plus rules for reporting a failed source as unreadable rather than a quiet day and confirming a Slack post before updating bookmarks and the ledger. A Claude Code command with the claude-api skill configures the agent from the article's guidance.