DigitalOcean launches Managed Agents in public preview
DigitalOcean announced Managed Agents in public preview on September 22, 2026, positioning the service as infrastructure purpose-built for AI agent developers DigitalOcean. The offering integrates agent execution, tool access, and inference into a single cloud offering—eliminating the need for developers to stitch together multiple platforms.
What Managed Agents includes
The service provides developers with isolated runtimes (a harness runtime for agent code), governed tool access (controlling what external systems agents can reach), and integrated inference capabilities DigitalOcean. According to DigitalOcean's official announcement, the product is designed to let developers "bring your preferred harness, connect your tools, and give your agents the infrastructure to take on more work."
Developers can launch agent sessions through the DigitalOcean Cloud Console or via the doctl CLI. The platform supports integration with popular frameworks and harnesses including LangChain, LangGraph, Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and Hermes.
Availability and early-user incentives
Managed Agents is now available as a public-preview offering—DigitalOcean's designation for early-stage, pre-release services Yahoo Finance. The company is offering $5 in cloud credits to new DigitalOcean users who launch their first agent session, lowering the barrier to experimentation.
The service emerges after a private-preview phase. DigitalOcean stated: "After a successful private preview, Managed Agents is now available to everyone" DigitalOcean.
Market context
The launch reflects consolidation in agent infrastructure: rather than requiring separate compute, tool-orchestration, and model-inference layers, Managed Agents bundles them. This positioning competes with other platforms targeting agent developers seeking integrated, managed solutions rather than building on raw infrastructure or stitching together open-source components.
As a public-preview release, Managed Agents is not yet a generally available (GA) product. DigitalOcean's terms describe the offering as "an early-stage, pre-release 'Public Preview' service," signaling that features, pricing, and availability may change before general release DigitalOcean investor relations.