Why We Handed Our Agent’s Infrastructure to Anthropic

Earlier this week, we launched the Every Agent, a coworker that lives in your company’s Slack. In her first piece for Every, engineer Paridhi Agarwal explains how we built it on Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents, why we stopped running our own fleet of agents, and the trade-offs we accepted along the way. If you want to see what a shared agent can do for your own team, join us tomorrow for our camp on working with agents in Slack.—Kate Lee

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On a Friday in September, Arielle Shipper’s salad went missing from the office fridge. Douglas Brundage did what most of us at Every now do with a problem. He asked @Every in Slack.

“who stole Arielle’s salad!?!?! make a list of likely culprits”

A minute later it posted a ranked list of suspects, starting with the people it knew had been in the kitchen that afternoon. After every named employee had made their case, @Every zeroed in on Leo, the office dog: Everyone else needed a motive. He only needed an unattended bowl. Nobody found the salad.