--- title: "Anthropic Introduces MCP Tunnels for Private Agent Access to Internal Systems" url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-introduces-mcp-tunnels-for-private-agent-access-to-internal-systems-ji15poalr source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/claude-mcp-tunnels type: article source: "InfoQ" published: 2026-05-19T19:25:05.034Z updated: 2026-05-19T19:25:45.580Z tags: ["security", "ai-agents", "mcp", "claude"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic Introduces MCP Tunnels for Private Agent Access to Internal Systems **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused features: self-hosted sandboxes (public beta) and MCP tunnels (research preview). Self-hosted sandboxes let tool execution run on customer-controlled infrastructure via providers like Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, and Vercel, giving enterprises control over network policies, audit logging, and data residency. MCP tunnels allow Managed Agents to connect to private MCP servers without exposing them to the public internet — a lightweight gateway establishes an outbound encrypted connection to Anthropic infrastructure instead of requiring inbound firewall rules. Together, these features address a key enterprise blocker: running autonomous agents inside a security perimeter without lengthy security reviews. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-introduces-mcp-tunnels-for-private-agent-access-to-internal-systems-ji15poalr)