Anthropic Upgrades Claude with Budget Controls, Regional Inference, Skill Loading, and Model Advisor Features

Odaily News – Anthropic has upgraded Claude this week, introducing four significant updates to Claude Managed Agents to further enhance the controllability, deployment flexibility, and task execution capabilities of enterprise-grade AI agents, including:

1. New session budget control feature: Users can now set budget limits for agent sessions to achieve more precise cost management. When a session reaches its budget limit, the system will trigger an event and pause operations; users can increase the budget to resume task execution.

2. Regional inference control capability: Users can now select where Claude Managed Agents run, with scheduling across globally available resources billed at standard rates. If restricted to run within US regions to meet regional deployment requirements, fees are 1.1x the standard price.

3. Support for automatically loading Skills modules from user repositories;

4. New model advisor feature: Users can configure a more powerful model as an "advisor," allowing task-executing agents to call upon the advisor model for second-opinion analysis during sessions, improving the quality of complex task handling.