Update claude-api skill: Managed Agents July launch wave, partner pricing, tool-runner corrections (#1463)

Syncs the claude-api skill with the current upstream source.

## Managed Agents — five new features

- `effort` on the agent's `model` object (a level string or `{"type": "<level>"}`).
  It is agent-configuration only: setting it in a per-session `model` override is
  silently ignored.
- Optional `version` on agent update, for optimistic concurrency. Omit it for
  last-write-wins.
- `initial_events` on session create, collapsing create plus first send into one
  call. Validation is all-or-nothing and only `user.message` and
  `user.define_outcome` are accepted.
- Environment and memory-store webhooks: four `environment.*` events and three
  `memory_store.*` events.
- Event deltas on per-thread streams. Previews are thread-scoped, so a child
  thread's previews never reach the session-level stream.

## Corrections to behavior the skill already documented

- Tool output offload triggers at 100,000 characters (~25k tokens), not 100K
  tokens, and covers built-in tools rather than MCP alone.
- `system.message` works on four models, checks only the primary model, appends
  system context instead of replacing the prompt, and is accepted during a
  `requires_action` idle when it trails a tool result in the same request.
- Vault-to-MCP credential matching is normalized (scheme and host lowercased,
  default ports and trailing slashes stripped), not byte-exact.
- Multiagent depth greater than 1 is a validation error, not silently ignored.
- Outcome `interrupted` fires even when evaluation never started, and then
  carries an empty-string `outcome_evaluation_start_id`.
- Deployment jitter is 15% of the run interval, floor 5s, cap 9 minutes.
- Webhooks retry three times with jittered 5-120s backoff, then drop silently.
  Auto-disable is duration-based with three named triggers.
- `session.status_terminated` means completion or error.
- `agent.thinking` is a progress signal and carries no thinking content.
- `processed_at` is already populated on first sighting for
  `user.define_outcome`, `user.custom_tool_result`, and `user.tool_result`.
- Session creation does not provision the sandbox.
- Skill `version` applies to Anthropic-authored skills too.
- Console-created vault credentials are header-injection only, and vault
  environment-variable substitution skips secrets in URL paths.
- Console trace URLs need the real workspace ID when the API key is not in the
  Default workspace.

## Elsewhere in the skill

- Note partner pricing under the first-party price table: Microsoft Foundry
  bills at standard API rates, while Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI are
  partner-operated with separate pricing.
- Correct the tool-runner human-in-the-loop guidance, which previously pointed
  readers at the manual loop for approval gates the runner's per-turn hooks
  already cover.
- Repoint links away from the retired documentation hosts.
- Dedupe eagerly loaded SKILL.md content that the per-section files already
  cover.
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Lance Martin
2026-07-22 11:20:09 -07:00
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Every session references a pre-created `/v1/agents` object. Create the agent onc
If you're about to write `sessions.create()` with `model`, `system`, or `tools` on the session body — **stop**. Those fields live on `agents.create()`. The session takes a *pointer* only.
**When generating code, separate setup from runtime.** `agents.create()` belongs in a setup script (or a guarded `if agent_id is None:` block), not at the top of the hot path. If the user's code calls `agents.create()` on every invocation, they're accumulating orphaned agents and paying the create latency for nothing. The correct shape is: create once → persist the ID (config file, env var, secrets manager) every run loads the ID and calls `sessions.create()`.
**When generating code, separate setup from runtime.** `agents.create()` belongs in a setup script (or a guarded `if agent_id is None:` block), not at the top of the hot path. If the user's code calls `agents.create()` on every invocation, they're accumulating orphaned agents and paying the create latency for nothing. The correct shape is: define the agent as a version-controlled YAML manifest, apply it once with `ant beta:agents create < agent.yaml` (or a guarded setup script — see `shared/anthropic-cli.md`), persist the returned ID (config file, env var, secrets manager), and have every run load the ID and call `sessions.create()`.
**To change the agent's behavior, use `POST /v1/agents/{id}` — don't create a new one.** Each update bumps the version; running sessions keep their pinned version, new sessions get the latest (or pin explicitly via `{type: "agent", id, version}`). See `shared/managed-agents-core.md` → Agents → Versioning. To change `tools`/`mcp_servers`/`vault_ids` on **one running session** without touching the agent object, use `sessions.update()` — see `shared/managed-agents-core.md` → Updating the agent configuration mid-session.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Managed Agents is in beta. The SDK sets required beta headers automatically:
| `skills-2025-10-02` | Skills API (for managing custom skill definitions) |
| `files-api-2025-04-14` | Files API for file uploads |
**Which beta header goes where:** The SDK sets `managed-agents-2026-04-01` automatically on `client.beta.{agents,environments,sessions,vaults,memory_stores,deployments,deployment_runs}.*` calls, and `files-api-2025-04-14` / `skills-2025-10-02` automatically on `client.beta.files.*` / `client.beta.skills.*` calls. You do NOT need to add the Skills or Files beta header when calling Managed Agents endpoints. **Exception — session-scoped file listing:** `client.beta.files.list({scope_id: session.id})` is a Files endpoint that takes a Managed Agents parameter, so it needs **both** headers. Pass `betas: ["managed-agents-2026-04-01"]` explicitly on that call (the SDK adds the Files header; you add the Managed Agents one). See `shared/managed-agents-environments.md` → Session outputs.
**Which beta header goes where:** The SDK sets `managed-agents-2026-04-01` automatically on `client.beta.{agents,environments,sessions,vaults,memory_stores,deployments,deployment_runs}.*` calls, and `files-api-2025-04-14` / `skills-2025-10-02` automatically on `client.beta.files.*` / `client.beta.skills.*` calls. You do NOT need to add the Skills or Files beta header when calling Managed Agents endpoints. On raw HTTP the Managed Agents header **grants Files API access on its own**, so uploading a file for use as a session resource does not need `files-api-2025-04-14` alongside it. (Direct Skills API calls over cURL do still need `skills-2025-10-02`; the `ant` CLI and the SDKs send it for you.) **Exception — session-scoped file listing:** `client.beta.files.list({scope_id: session.id})` is a Files endpoint that takes a Managed Agents parameter, so it needs **both** headers. Pass `betas: ["managed-agents-2026-04-01"]` explicitly on that call (the SDK adds the Files header; you add the Managed Agents one). See `shared/managed-agents-environments.md` → Session outputs.
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