AnalysisTutorial / explainerAgents & Tool Use1 source · Oct 16, 2026

Why One AI Agent Isn’t Enough (And How to Run 1,000) - CJ Avilla & Harrison Stall, Anthropic

Anthropic's CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall introduce Flows in Claude Managed Agents.

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Key points

  • Ken Thompson built Unix in a month.
  • IBM put 1,000 engineers on OS/360.
  • You hand Claude a goal, and it plans and runs its own multi-agent topology of up to 1,000 agents through the API.
  • 7:00 Introducing Flows in Claude Managed Agents

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