Update Agent
client.beta.agents.update(stringagentID, AgentUpdateParamsparams, RequestOptionsoptions?): BetaManagedAgentsAgentPOST/v1/agents/{agent_id}
Update Agent
import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";
const client = new Anthropic({
apiKey: process.env["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] // This is the default and can be omitted
});
const betaManagedAgentsAgent = await client.beta.agents.update(
"agent_011CZkYpogX7uDKUyvBTophP",
{ description: "updated" }
);
console.log(betaManagedAgentsAgent.id);{
"id": "agent_011CZkYpogX7uDKUyvBTophP",
"archived_at": null,
"created_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
"description": "A general-purpose starter agent.",
"mcp_servers": [
{
"name": "example-mcp",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://example-server.modelcontextprotocol.io/sse"
}
],
"metadata": {
"foo": "bar"
},
"model": {
"id": "claude-opus-5",
"effort": {
"type": "low"
},
"inference_geo": "inference_geo",
"speed": "standard"
},
"multiagent": {
"agents": [
{
"id": "agent_011CZkYqphY8vELVzwCUpqiQ",
"type": "agent",
"version": 1
}
],
"type": "coordinator"
},
"name": "My First Agent",
"skills": [
{
"skill_id": "xlsx",
"type": "anthropic",
"version": "1"
},
{
"skill_id": "skill_011CZkZFNu9hAbo3jZPRgTlx",
"type": "custom",
"version": "2"
}
],
"system": "You are a general-purpose agent that can research, write code, run commands, and use connected tools to complete the user's task end to end.",
"tools": [
{
"configs": [
{
"enabled": true,
"name": "bash",
"permission_policy": {
"type": "always_allow"
},
"type": "bash"
}
],
"default_config": {
"enabled": true,
"permission_policy": {
"type": "always_ask"
}
},
"type": "agent_toolset_20260401"
}
],
"type": "agent",
"updated_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
"version": 1
}Returns Examples
{
"id": "agent_011CZkYpogX7uDKUyvBTophP",
"archived_at": null,
"created_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
"description": "A general-purpose starter agent.",
"mcp_servers": [
{
"name": "example-mcp",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://example-server.modelcontextprotocol.io/sse"
}
],
"metadata": {
"foo": "bar"
},
"model": {
"id": "claude-opus-5",
"effort": {
"type": "low"
},
"inference_geo": "inference_geo",
"speed": "standard"
},
"multiagent": {
"agents": [
{
"id": "agent_011CZkYqphY8vELVzwCUpqiQ",
"type": "agent",
"version": 1
}
],
"type": "coordinator"
},
"name": "My First Agent",
"skills": [
{
"skill_id": "xlsx",
"type": "anthropic",
"version": "1"
},
{
"skill_id": "skill_011CZkZFNu9hAbo3jZPRgTlx",
"type": "custom",
"version": "2"
}
],
"system": "You are a general-purpose agent that can research, write code, run commands, and use connected tools to complete the user's task end to end.",
"tools": [
{
"configs": [
{
"enabled": true,
"name": "bash",
"permission_policy": {
"type": "always_allow"
},
"type": "bash"
}
],
"default_config": {
"enabled": true,
"permission_policy": {
"type": "always_ask"
}
},
"type": "agent_toolset_20260401"
}
],
"type": "agent",
"updated_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
"version": 1
}