# Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

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Published: 2026-07-14T09:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Anthropic's platform leaders explain their strategy to move beyond simple chat interfaces toward a multi-layered stack of knowledge, execution, and coordination. They argue that true agentic utility comes from building open standards like MCP rather than proprietary walled gardens.

## Highlights
- Main idea: The future of AI lies in a three-layer stack consisting of knowledge, execution, and coordination
- Practical takeaway: Developers should focus on 'strategies' or meta-harnesses that assign specific roles to tokens, such as advising versus executing
- Failure mode: Building custom, monolithic architectures for every use case is unsustainable; modularity via standards is the only way to scale
- Strategic insight: Anthropic prioritizes an open ecosystem for tools and skills (via MCP) while maintaining closed control over model routing to optimize for the Claude family
- Core philosophy: The platform's success depends on being 'electricity'—a utility that is transformative because anyone can plug into it

## Topics

Anthropic, Claude, AI Agents, Developer Platforms, Model Context Protocol, Software Architecture, LLM Orchestration, Machine Learning Infrastructure

## Chapters
- 1:00 — The Two North Stars: Defining the dual mission of providing high-leverage infrastructure for internal Anthropic teams and external developers.
- 5:00 — External Builders and Primitives: Discussing the democratization of AI form factors and the importance of providing foundational building blocks.
- 8:00 — What to Externalize: Identifying which parts of the AI stack should be managed by Anthropic and which should be left to the broader developer community.
- 12:00 — The Three-Layer Cake: An architectural deep dive into the transition from knowledge and execution layers to the coordination layer.
- 15:00 — From Messages to Agents: Exploring the shift from simple text completion to complex, autonomous agentic workflows.
- 19:00 — Execution Harnesses and Strategies: How to use code and orchestration to give tokens specific jobs like memory, reflection, and execution.
- 26:00 — Building an Open Ecosystem: Why Anthropic is betting on industry standards and interoperability rather than a closed, proprietary ecosystem.

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