Blog
Anthropic ships ant apply to manage Claude agents, environments, skills, and deployments as code
Anthropic’s ant CLI 1.30.0 adds ant apply, which creates and updates Claude agents, environments, skills, memory stores, and deployments from repository files. Teams approve a plan, then commit claude-lock.json so later runs update the same resources instead of creating duplicates.
Manage Claude resources like application code
On September 3, 2026, Anthropic’s Claude Platform release notes recorded that ant CLI version 1.30.0 adds `ant apply`. The command creates and updates Claude API resources—agents, environments, skills, memory stores, and deployments—from files that live in your repository and change through the same review process as code.
You describe each resource in a file, run ant apply, and approve the plan it shows. The tool then writes claude-lock.json. Commit that lockfile so the next run—on your machine or in CI—updates the same resources instead of creating new ones. ant apply requires CLI version 1.30.0 or later.