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Claude Duet

Quick answer

Claude Duet is a standalone general AI agent from Anthropic. Anthropic's proactive agent app that watches your email and calendar, drafts and prepares work, and asks before acting. Nearfi's Agent Index rates its autonomy 4/5 (multi-step on its own): it works in the background on its own cloud computer, scanning email and calendar and starting first steps without being asked, but it pauses for approval before payments, sending messages, signing or deleting, so it is not fully ongoing. Status: waitlist; 0 incident(s) logged.

By Anthropic · launched 2026-10-21 · last checked 2026-11-07

At a glance
Autonomy
4/5
Multi-step on its own

Why 4: it works in the background on its own cloud computer, scanning email and calendar and starting first steps without being asked, but it pauses for approval before payments, sending messages, signing or deleting, so it is not fully ongoing.

The findings

What it does. Duet runs on its own virtual machine and browser, so it keeps working when your phone or laptop is off. Each morning it scans email and calendar, can start first steps such as drafting replies, and checks connected accounts every few hours. It uses more than 6,000 connectors and plugins from the Claude Marketplace and, per VKTR, can buy through Stripe's Link and Shop Pay with a one-time card per transaction.

Where it falls short. A research preview: per VKTR, it cannot make calls or send texts, work with Microsoft 365, or monitor accounts 24/7, and users cannot yet watch it work or take over its browser. Anthropic says it can misread threads or urgency and advises reviewing drafts and approval requests; its fuller safety write-up was promised 'soon'.

What it can do

emailcalendarbrowsefilesmemorypurchasespaymentsmessagingmonitoringyour accounts

Price: No separate price in the research preview; shares your Claude plan's usage limits. · Where: US only; Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers invited from a waitlist. Team and Enterprise plans not yet included. · Surfaces: app, web

Incidents

  • None logged.

Closest fiction

Her — An assistant that tidies your inbox and life before you ask; here it messages you first.

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History

  • 2026-11-07 Added to the index.

Sources

  1. Claude Duet Anthropic (Claude)
  2. Claude Duet: Anthropic previews an AI agent that messages you first VKTR, 2026-10-22
  3. Anthropic launches Claude Duet: proactive assistant arrives late to the party Itdaily, 2026-10-22

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