The reason enterprises have been slow to connect AI agents to internal APIs and databases isn't the models — it's the credentials. In most production deployments, the agent carries authentication tokens with it as it executes tool calls, which means a compromised or misbehaving agent takes the keys with it.
Anthropic is addressing that problem with two new capabilities for Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes, which let teams run tool execution inside their own infrastructure perimeter, and MCP tunnels, which connect agents to private MCP servers without exposing credentials in the agent's context. Together they move credential control to the network boundary rather than leaving it i...