Vercel Launches Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK

What shipped? Vercel released a Chat SDK integration for Claude Managed Agents, with a reference Slack research bot implementation.

What changed? Developers can now build persistent Claude Managed Agent sessions backed by the Chat SDK — one session per Slack thread, with streaming briefs and cited sources. No Slack credentials or token management needed on the developer side; the SDK handles the auth layer.

Why a builder cares: This lowers the bar for shipping production Slack agents dramatically. Instead of wiring OAuth flows, managing session state, and building retry logic yourself, you get all of that from a single SDK call. The reference implementation ships as a Vercel Function with a ready-made Slack manifest.