# ant apply: Deploy Claude Agents Like Infrastructure > Source: > Published: 2026-09-12 16:11:18+00:00 Anthropic shipped ant apply in ant CLI v1.30.0 on September 3. It brings the plan-and-apply workflow — the same one Terraform made standard for cloud infrastructure — to Claude Managed Agents. You describe agents, skills, environments, memory stores, and deployments as files in your repository. You run ant apply, approve the plan it prints, and it reconciles your files against the API. The claude-lock.json it writes tracks resource IDs and hashes. Drift from out-of-band console edits is detected and blocked on the next run. If you’re managing more than one Claude agent by hand, this is the tool you’ve been […] The post