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DigitalOcean Opens Managed Agents Public Preview With MicroVM Runtime and 16,000+ Tool Gateway

September 22, 2026 at 13:53 EDT

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Software Dev & Coding

DigitalOcean has opened Managed Agents in public preview for all users, turning agent execution and tool access into managed cloud services for teams building with Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code and other harnesses. The release pairs a microVM-based Harness Runtime with Action Gateway, a governed MCP endpoint that DigitalOcean says can connect agents to more than 16,000 tools.

Sep 21, 2026 · DigitalOcean

Managed Agents moves into public preview

The launch combines a microVM runtime for Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code and other harnesses with a governed gateway for tool access and model routing.

16,000+

tools behind Action Gateway

75+

models via Inference Engine

$0.126

per hour for default Medium at full allocation

100

concurrent sessions per team, tier dependent

Runtime cost scales by sandbox size

A proportional view of published full-allocation hourly pricing: XLarge is 8x the default Medium.

$0.126/hr

Medium default

$1.008/hr

XLarge

How the managed loop fits together

Bring a harness

Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code or a custom OCI image

→

Run in a microVM

Session state can pause, resume, fork and roll back

→

Call governed tools

Credentials are brokered outside model context

Why builders care

Durable sessions can keep coding and operations agents alive after a disconnect, then resume the same workspace later.

What needs watching

Preview limits, rate limits and the absence of per-session spend caps make policies and monitoring part of the deployment plan.

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