Claude Managed Agents Gets a Session Viewer and Auto-Approval Mode

Anthropic added two features to Claude Managed Agents: a session viewer reached with ant beta:sessions connect, including a web interface, and an auto mode that reviews each tool call against the agent's stated intent to decide whether to run it, deny it or ask for approval. Together they target the two things that make long-running agents hard to trust in production: visibility into what a session is actually doing right now, and a way to automate approvals without removing oversight entirely. Before this, monitoring a long-running Claude agent meant tailing logs or interrupting the session to check its state, and automating approvals meant either allowing everything or reviewing every call by hand. The auto mode sits between those extremes by judging each call against stated intent rather than a fixed allowlist, which should cut manual review load on routine calls while still catching ones that drift from the task.