Claude Managed Agents is Anthropic's hosted service for building and running cloud-hosted AI agents at scale. Instead of building your own agent loop, sandboxing, and state-management infrastructure, you define an agent's tasks, tools, and guardrails, and Anthropic's managed harness handles execution, memory, credential management, scoped permissions, and tracing on its own infrastructure. Claude Managed Agents is a new product. Anthropic launched it into public beta in April 2026 as a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents.

Is Claude Managed Agents HIPAA compliant? No, based on our research, Claude Managed Agents is not HIPAA compliant.

 

Will Claude Managed Agents sign a business associate agreement (BAA)?

No, currently Claude Managed Agents will not sign a business associate agreement as a standalone product. Anthropic will sign a BAA covering its HIPAA-ready Claude Enterprise plan and a defined set of HIPAA-ready 1P API features but Managed Agents does not appear in Anthropic's official list of Eligible Services under that agreement. You can review the current coverage breakdown on Anthropic's Business Associate Agreements page.

 

Conclusion

Claude Managed Agents does not sign a BAA and is therefore not HIPAA compliant.

Learn more: HIPAA Compliant Email: The Definitive Guide

 

FAQS

What is a business associate agreement?

A business associate agreement (BAA) is a legally binding contract establishing a relationship between a covered entity under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its business associates. The purpose of this agreement is to ensure the proper protection of personal health information (PHI) as required by HIPAA regulations.

 

What is HIPAA?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets national standards for protecting the privacy and security of certain health information, known as protected health information (PHI).

HIPAA is designed to protect the privacy and security of individuals’ health information and to ensure that healthcare providers and insurers can securely exchange electronic health information. Violations of HIPAA can result in significant fines and penalties for covered entities.

 

Who does HIPAA apply to?

HIPAA applies to covered entities, which include healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses. It also applies to business associates of these covered entities. These are entities that perform certain functions or activities on behalf of the covered entity.