Building Agents With the Claude Agent SDK
BlogAnthropic EngineeringJun 14, 2026
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The renaming announcement: the Claude Code SDK becomes the Claude Agent SDK to reflect that the same harness powers far more than coding agents. Explains the design principle 'give the agent a computer' — file system, shell, browser — instead of trying to predict every tool it will need. Documents the best practices that emerged from running Claude Code internally, then generalizes them as an SDK any developer can build on. The official replacement for hand-rolled agent loops.
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