Anthropic launches Claude Duet agent app, focused on proactively handling professional work
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app powered by Claude Opus 5.5 that can continuously handle tasks in the background, running even when users leave their phone or computer. Duet can schedule meetings, organize emails, check unpaid invoices, prepare payroll and contracts, and can use more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, and others. When actions are taken on behalf of the user, Duet first shows what it plans to execute and waits for approval; it is currently launched as a research preview, offering standalone iOS and Android apps and a Claude.ai web version, and in the first phase is available only to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, who must join a waitlist.
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The original text explains Duet's continuous background operation, cross-tool connections, and pre-action approval mechanism, which can be used to judge the boundaries of agent apps in professional workflows.
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Duet is powered by Claude Opus 5.5 and can continuously process tasks in the background, running even when the user leaves their phone or computer. It can schedule meetings, organize emails, and draft follow-up messages, as well as help verify unpaid invoices, prepare payroll and contracts, create dashboards, financial or sales forecasts across tools, and even build web applications. Anthropic says Duet can use more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto, LinkedIn, DocuSign, HubSpot, and Shopify.
When it comes to taking actions on the user's behalf, Duet first shows what it plans to do and waits for approval, such as sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting data. It can purchase goods through Stripe's Link digital wallet or Shop Pay, but it cannot trade securities or transfer funds between accounts. Anthropic says Duet does not directly access users' passwords or login tokens; newly added security classifiers block the exfiltration of sensitive information such as credit card numbers and government ID documents, while health and personal financial information can be sent only when the user explicitly requests it.
Claude Duet is currently being launched as a research preview, offering standalone iOS and Android apps and a Claude.ai web version. In the first phase, it is available only to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, who must join a waitlist; Team and Enterprise users are not yet included in the rollout. During the preview period, Duet shares usage limits with the user's Claude subscription, and background checks and larger tasks also consume quota.
Anthropic emphasizes that Duet is designed primarily for work scenarios, that its ability to handle personal matters such as booking tickets is not yet mature enough, and that for now users cannot watch in real time how it operates a browser. The company acknowledges that early versions may misjudge the importance or urgency of emails. With the successive launch of agent tools such as Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots, Anthropic is further expanding Claude from a conversational assistant into an agent capable of continuously working across applications.