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Claude Managed Agent + iMessage

Connect your Claude Managed Agent agent to iMessage

Claude Managed Agents are hosted agents you create from one CLI command. No agent server, no bridge code. Novu Connect gives it a voice in iMessage, with a real two-way conversation and reliable delivery. Build the agent once, reach users where they already work.

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Connect your Claude Managed Agent agent to iMessage with Novu Connect

What is Claude Managed Agent

A Claude Managed Agent is an agent you create without hosting any agent code. You bring your Anthropic credentials, describe the agent you want, and review the skills and tools Novu adds. Claude handles the reasoning, planning, and tool use. Novu resolves identity and conversation state and delivers every message. There is no repo to scaffold and no bridge to wire: the guided CLI flow takes you from nothing to a live agent in a channel.

  • No agent server or bridge code to host
  • Claude handles reasoning, planning, and tool use
  • System prompt, skills, and MCP servers editable in the dashboard
  • Create it once, connect it to every channel

Claude Managed Agent in iMessage

Novu Connect is the communication layer, the ACI, Agent Communication Infrastructure, between your Claude Managed Agent and iMessage. Claude runs the reasoning with your Anthropic credentials. Novu maps each user, keeps the conversation state, and delivers every message and reply in iMessage.

One agent, iMessage, resolved in the thread

Novu Connect puts an existing AI agent on iMessage through Sendblue, with full conversation history, live typing indicators, and reply-based approvals. Connect it with the command npx novu connect --channel sendblue. A patient asks about a pickup. The agent confirms it, moves it to a closer location after approval, and offers a refill reminder.

How to connect Claude Managed Agent to iMessage

  1. Run one command

    Run npx novu connect --channel sendblue --runtime claude. There is no project to scaffold and no application code to modify. The CLI guides the complete setup.

  2. Describe your agent

    Connect your Anthropic credentials, describe the agent you want to create, and review the skills and tools Novu adds to it.

  3. Preview and create

    Preview the generated agent, then create it. The system prompt, skills, and MCP servers stay editable in the Novu dashboard afterward.

  4. Connect {channelName}

    The guided flow connects iMessage. Your agent now holds a two-way conversation there, and the same agent can reach every other channel from one thread.

Every Claude Managed Agent connect command

$npx novu connect --channel sendblue --runtime claude

Prompt for your coding agent

Connect a Claude Managed Agent to iMessage with Novu using instructions from https://novu.co/agents.md

Full setup for Claude Managed Agent lives in the Claude Managed Agent connect guide.

Claude Managed Agent and iMessage, common questions

No. There is no agent server and no bridge code. You bring Anthropic credentials, Claude does the reasoning, and Novu keeps the conversation running in iMessage.

Connect your Claude Managed Agent agent to another channel

Same agent, built once. Pick where it talks next, and it holds one conversation across every channel.