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Use a managed service

Someone else runs the harness. You configure via API.

The path to watch most closely in 2026. Session persistence, the execution environment, retry logic — these are rarely your competitive advantage. A managed service wires them so you can spend engineering time on what makes your agent actually better.

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When this fits

  • Most teams. Running the infrastructure is not proportional to the value it creates for you.
  • You want to ship fast and let the operational layer be someone else’s problem.
  • Your edge is the use case, not the harness.

What it demands

Careful evaluation before you commit. Managed does not mean hands-off on architecture, and services are not equivalent.

Learn this first

  1. 01What a managed agent is vs a plain inference API
  2. 02Primitive coverage: does it wire what you need?
  3. 03Observability access and the ejection path
  4. 04Where the agent actually executes