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title: _messages API_
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  **_messages API_** — in this material, the API-style endpoint for interacting
  with Claude by sending a request and receiving a completion back, as distinct
  from the later **Claude Managed Agents** platform that bundles memory, tools,
  and cloud infrastructure on top of that raw access.
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# \_messages API\_

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## Definition

**_messages API_** — in this material, the API-style endpoint for interacting with Claude by sending a request and receiving a completion back, as distinct from the later **Claude Managed Agents** platform that bundles memory, tools, and cloud infrastructure on top of that raw access. [^4872db36-e98a-5f6b-bc5c-b11e48c9411b@113]

&lt;Section title=&quot;How the term is used here&quot;&gt;## The messages API in this materialIn the captured material, the **_messages API_** appears as the baseline way of working with Claude programmatically: an endpoint-style interface where a program sends a request and gets a completion back. The conversation with Angela Jiang and Katelyn Lesse frames the platform's evolution as moving _from a completion endpoint_ into **Claude Managed Agents** — Claude in a cloud computer with memory, tools, and infrastructure. The messages API is that earlier, request-in/response-out form of access that the agent platform grew beyond. [^4872db36-e98a-5f6b-bc5c-b11e48c9411b@113]The speakers position the two as different levels of abstraction: with a messages API, _you_ orchestrate every step — assembling context, calling tools, storing state — while the managed agent platform bundles memory, tools, and infrastructure for you. [^4872db36-e98a-5f6b-bc5c-b11e48c9411b@1181] [^4872db36-e98a-5f6b-bc5c-b11e48c9411b@692]&lt;/Section&gt;