--- title: Managed Agents (public) description: DigitalOcean's cloud platform for running and scaling AI agents, and governing the actions they take. product: Managed Agents url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/ last_updated: "2026-09-21" --- > **For AI agents:** The documentation index is at [https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt](https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of pages use the same URL with `index.html.md` in place of the HTML page (for example, append `index.html.md` to the directory path instead of opening the HTML document). # Managed Agents (public) Managed Agents (available in [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview) for all users) is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without having to build and maintain infrastructure themselves. Developers can pick from agent harnesses that they already use (like Claude Code, Hermes or agents built with frameworks like LangGraph), securely connect it to more than 16,000 tools and have their agents do meaningful work in seconds, from the console or the DigitalOcean CLI. Managed Agents contains two services that scale independently but work as one: [DigitalOcean Harness Runtime](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/index.html.md) combines the functionality of a lightweight microVM, built-in tools like chromium and a coding sandbox needed by agents to do work. The product also offers rich lifecycle APIs that persist conversational history and working state across sessions, along with pause/resume/fork semantics so that developers can control costs and adapt workflows to the nonlinear quirks of agentic work. [Action Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/index.html.md) gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through a single managed MCP endpoint. This includes tool integrations, like DigitalOcean-maintained tools such as Web Search, Web Fetch, Browser Automation, and DigitalOcean infrastructure management APIs, along with connectors for widely used platforms like GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Snowflake, and more. Teams can also extend the catalog with their own MCP servers and internal tools. See [What You Can Build with Managed Agents](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/details/what-you-can-build/index.html.md). Together, using these services developers scale the work their agents can do while DigitalOcean manages the execution, persistence, and tool infrastructure underneath. ![Managed Agents architecture. A Managed Agents boundary contains Harness Runtime, which runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, LangGraph, or your own OCI image unmodified in a microVM, and Action Gateway, which fronts 16,000 or more tools behind one governed endpoint. Tool calls pass between them, and both emit events to Signals. Outside the boundary, Managed Agents connects to Inference Engine for model calls, Storage for reads and writes, and Data services for queries.](https://docs.digitalocean.com/screenshots/managed-agents/architecture.7fbd90d93e2954b7f5ef84af0622788f76f578ed0596e7db5f7fef31f973ee2e.png) For a walkthrough of each component and the DigitalOcean services around them, see [Managed Agents Architecture](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/concepts/architecture/index.html.md). [DigitalOcean Harness Runtime](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/index.html.md): Run AI coding agents in isolated DigitalOcean sandboxes with session lifecycle, permissions, and a YAML environment spec. [Action Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/index.html.md): Give agents access to tools, APIs, and connectors through a managed MCP endpoint or SDK without putting credentials in the model context. ## Latest Updates ### 21 September 2026 - [Managed Agents](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/index.html.md) is now available in [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview) for all users. Managed Agents is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without having to build and maintain infrastructure themselves. Developers can pick from agent harnesses that they already use (like Claude Code or agents built with frameworks like LangGraph and Hermes), securely connect it to more than 16,000 tools and have their agents do meaningful work in seconds, from the Control Panel or the DigitalOcean CLI. Teams can also register custom OCI images as sandbox templates with Bring-Your-Own-Template (BYOT). [DigitalOcean Harness Runtime](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/index.html.md) combines the functionality of a lightweight microVM, built-in tools like chromium and a coding sandbox needed by agents to do work. The product also offers rich lifecycle APIs that persist conversational history and working state across sessions, along with pause/resume/fork semantics so that developers can control costs and adapt workflows to the nonlinear quirks of agentic work. [Action Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/index.html.md) gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through a single managed MCP endpoint. This includes DigitalOcean-maintained tools such as Web Search, Web Fetch, Browser Automation, and DigitalOcean infrastructure management APIs, along with connectors for platforms like GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Snowflake, and more. Teams can also extend the catalog with their own MCP servers and internal tools. For more information, see [the full release notes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/index.html.md).