Getting Started with the ant CLI: Deploy Claude Agents

This article was originally published on avinashsangle.com . The ant CLI is Anthropic's official command-line client for the Claude API, and it's the fastest way to create, configure, and manage cloud-hosted agents without writing application code. From install to a running managed agent in under 10 minutes. TL;DR The ant CLI is Anthropic's official Go-based CLI for the Claude API, launched April 2026. It manages agents, environments, and sessions from your terminal. Install on macOS with brew i