Anthropic previews always-on agent app Claude Duet
Original title: Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"
Built on Claude Opus 5.5, the US waitlist app works while users are away and asks before messages, payments, signatures, or deletions.
Anthropic released a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app that runs Claude as a proactive agent on iOS, Android, and claude.ai. It is built on Claude Opus 5.5 and is offered via waitlist to Pro and Max subscribers in the US; Team and Enterprise plans are not included yet. The agent uses a cloud virtual machine and more than 6,000 connectors, and it must get approval before sending, paying, signing, or deleting. Trading securities and moving money between accounts stay blocked. Anthropic says early builds can misread urgency and check connected accounts only every few hours.
Unconfirmed: How Duet will relate to the regular Claude app is still undecided, according to Anthropic.
- Duet pulls memory, skills, and app connections from the user’s existing Claude account.
- Purchases use Stripe Link with a virtual card so the real card number is not shared.
- Anthropic says the agent does not see passwords or login tokens directly.
- A new classifier is meant to block sharing of card numbers or ID details.
- Background checks share subscription limits with other Claude products.
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Products
- Claude DuetClaude
- Countries
- United States
- AI models
- Claude Opus 5.5
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Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that handles tasks on its own, even when the user is offline. The app is built on Claude Opus 5. 5 and connects to services like Gmail, Slack, and Stripe through more than 6,000 connectors.
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
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