Open source alternatives to Claude Managed Agents

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Claude Managed Agents does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Claude Managed Agents does

  1. Run long-lived agents through an APIcore
  2. Managed sandbox for code and toolscore
  3. Tool and MCP server access
  4. Persistent sessions and state
  5. Logs and traces of agent runs

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
omnaraSelf-hostable platform for running durable managed agents with an API Replaces it100%3.4k+31
331
yesterday75% Hosted version Apache-2.0
Covers everything on the checklist.See the evidence
  • Run long-lived agents through an APIcoreYesUse the API to run AI agents
  • Managed sandbox for code and toolscoreYesa pool of managed sandboxes
  • Tool and MCP server accessYesBuilt-in tools for shell commands, files, web search
  • Persistent sessions and stateYesThat record is the agent's state
  • Logs and traces of agent runsYesopen it in the dashboard to watch its tool calls

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