Anthropic’s Alex Albert (Claude Relations), Brad Abrams (Product) and Katelyn Lesse (Engineering) discuss the evolution of building agents with Claude, the latest Claude Developer Platform features, and why agents perform best when developers “unhobble” their model with tools.
Learn more about the Claude Developer Platform: https://www.claude.com/platform/api
00:00 - Introductions
00:30 - What is the Claude Developer Platform?
2:30 - What is an AI agent
3:15 - Building frontier intelligence for AI agents
4:00 - Reducing model scaffolding to build better agents
5:05 - The evolution of agentic frameworks
6:40 - Unhobbling the model with tools like web fetch
8:35 - Building agents with the Claude Agent SDK (formerly the Claude Code SDK)
10:50 - Best practices for identifying agentic use cases
11: 40 - Driving better agentic outcomes with the SDK
14:35 - Best practices for managing context and memory with Claude
19:00 - The future of the Claude Developer Platform (observability, computer use, and other ways to unhobble the model)