ToolingAugust 20, 2026

TrueFoundry open sources TrueForge to help enterprises manage autonomous agents

TrueFoundry has released TrueForge, an open source agent harness designed specifically for Claude Managed Agents. This tool allows enterprises to maintain full control over their agent runtime while leveraging significant performance benchmarks reported between 30 and 75 percent.

Why it matters

For teams building production AI, owning the agent runtime is critical for security, compliance and customisation. This release provides a robust framework to integrate managed agents into private infrastructure without sacrificing the speed of development.

Key points

TrueForge is now open source for enterprise agent management
The harness is specifically optimised for Claude Managed Agents
Internal benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements
Enterprises can now host and control their own agentic workflows

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