On Wednesday, during its Code with Claude event, Anthropic updated Managed Agents with a new feature called "dreaming," which lets agents "self-improve" by reviewing past sessions for patterns, according to Anthropic. Building on an existing memory capability, the feature schedules time for agents to reflect on and learn from their past interactions. Once dreaming is on, it can either automatically update your agents' memories to shape future behavior or you can select which incoming changes to approve.

"Dreaming surfaces patterns that a single agent can't see on its own, including recurring mistakes, workflows that agents converge on, and preferences shared across a team," Anthropic said in the blog. "It also restructures memory so it stays high-signal as it evolves. This is especially useful for long-running work and multiagent orchestration."

During the Code with Claude keynote, Anthropic product team members demonstrated how the feature works, referring to completed runs as finished "dreams."

Anthropic also expanded two existing features, outcomes and multi-agent orchestration, which keep agents on-task and handle delegating to other agents, respectively. The company said this batch of updates is meant to ensure agents stay accurate and are constantly learning.