Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK on Vercel

What shipped? Vercel now supports running Claude Managed Agents through the Chat SDK, letting you deploy agents to Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord, WhatsApp, and 30+ other platforms from a single codebase.

What changed? Claude Managed Agents handle the entire agent loop server-side — model orchestration, tool execution, session state, and sandboxed web research. Chat SDK bridges that to chat platforms. Each thread gets one persistent session stored by Managed Agents, so there's no database to run. Replies stream token-by-token with a live activity feed that surfaces tool calls and model requests during the turn.

Vercel published a one-click deploy template for a Slack research analyst bot, plus a step-by-step guide and the full template source on GitHub. Swapping a few lines in the handler moves the same agent to Teams or Discord.

Why a builder cares. Ship agent workflows to any chat platform without managing server-side state, writing platform-specific adapters, or running your own agent infrastructure. Portability by design, zero state to maintain.