DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Managed Agents is a hosted runtime for AI coding and workflow agents, aimed at developers who want to ship agentic features without stitching together compute, tool access, and model inference themselves. Developers can create sessions with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Hermes, LangChain and LangGraph through the Cloud Console or the doctl CLI, and configure tool access through Action Gateway using the DigitalOcean SDK or any MCP-compatible client. The launch matters because it consolidates three moving parts of agent infrastructure (execution, tools, and inference) into one billed service on a cloud already used by many small and mid-market teams. Under the hood, every Managed Agents session runs in its own isolated harness runtime with harnesses that teams already use, governed access to 16,000+ tools, and Serverless Inference across 75+ open and proprietary models, with a meter that only runs when the agent is active. Tool access is handled by Action Gateway, which gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through a single managed MCP endpoint, including tool integrations like Web Search, Web Fetch, Browser Automation, and DigitalOcean infrastructure management APIs , alongside connectors for services like GitHub, Jira, Notion, Linear, and Postgres with centralized authentication, permissions, approvals, and audit controls. DigitalOcean is positioning this as the next layer of its cloud stack for agent builders, with a five-layer integrated platform spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration . The public preview is live now, and new DigitalOcean users receive a $5 credit to launch their first agent session , making it a low-friction way for founders and platform teams to test whether a managed harness plus MCP gateway can replace the glue code they are currently maintaining in-house.