# Do coding agents recommend Claude Managed Agents? > Claude Managed Agents was chosen in 2% of 681 judged agent frameworks sessions, ranking number 11. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-claude-managed-agents Published: 2026-09-03 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Claude Managed Agents was chosen in 2% of 681 judged agent frameworks sessions, ranking number 11. It was also raised as a candidate in 4 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in agent frameworks inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Claude Managed Agents. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Agent frameworks | | Sessions in the category | 681 | | Sessions where Claude Managed Agents was chosen | 13 | | Install share | 2% | | Rank in category | 11 of 35 | | Codebases it won in | 8 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 4 | | Chosen when considered | 76% | | Site | anthropic.com | ## By agent With 13 wins spread across three agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Claude Managed Agents | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 237 | 13 | 5% | | Codex | 243 | 0 | 0% | | Cursor | 201 | 0 | 0% | ## By who was asking Claude Managed Agents performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 1% to 4%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 14 of the 18 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Claude Managed Agents | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 163 | 7 | 4% | | Junior developer | 157 | 3 | 2% | | Senior engineer | 254 | 2 | 1% | | Enterprise team | 107 | 1 | 1% | ## What Claude Managed Agents was up against The full ranking in agent frameworks, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 170 | 25% | | 2 | Vercel AI SDK | 95 | 14% | | 3 | Cursor SDK | 94 | 14% | | 4 | Inngest | 50 | 7% | | 5 | Temporal | 29 | 4% | | 6 | Prism | 28 | 4% | | 7 | OpenAI Agents SDK | 24 | 4% | | 8 | LangGraph | 23 | 3% | ## What this means Agents almost never raise Claude Managed Agents without choosing it: 4 sessions raised against 13 chosen. When it gets considered, it usually wins. The constraint is how rarely it gets considered at all, which is a presence problem: templates, framework integrations and pages that answer the configuration and production questions agents actually search for. ## Where these numbers come from The 681 sessions in agent frameworks are part of a published set of 5,292, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every agent frameworks run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/agent-frameworks). If you work on Claude Managed Agents: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Claude Managed Agents? Yes. Claude Managed Agents was chosen in 13 of the 681 judged sessions in agent frameworks, a 2% install share, ranking number 11 in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Claude Managed Agents? In 13 of the 237 sessions in agent frameworks run with Claude Code, which is 5%. ### Do different coding agents treat Claude Managed Agents differently? Not much. The three agents chose it at similar rates, between 0% and 5% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 51 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Claude Managed Agents considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 4 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 13. That is a 76% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for agent frameworks by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/agent-frameworks-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/agent-frameworks-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Vercel AI SDK?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-vercel-ai-sdk) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-vercel-ai-sdk.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Cursor SDK?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cursor-sdk) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cursor-sdk.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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