Vercel Chat SDK adds support for Claude Managed Agents

Vercel published a template on August 27, 2026 for running a Slack research bot on Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents through the Chat SDK. It holds one persistent Claude session per Slack thread, streams research briefs with their sources back into the thread, and needs no Slack credentials managed by the app itself.

Why it matters

Managed Agents keep the session on Anthropic's side, so the usual work of holding conversation state and tool sessions alive across a long thread moves off your own infrastructure. Paired with a Slack surface, an internal research bot becomes a template to deploy rather than a project to build.

Who should care

Teams putting an AI assistant into Slack, and developers already using Anthropic's Managed Agents

What you can do

Deploy the template from the Vercel changelog entry and point it at your own sources, keeping the one-session-per-thread model.