Claude Duet Explained: What It Does, Who Can Use It, and What You Give Up
Anthropic released something on 21 October that most people will skim past, because it looks like another assistant. It is worth ten minutes, because the thing it changes is not speed. It changes who decides what you spend your morning on. It is called Claude Duet. Before arguing about it, here is what it actually is. What Claude Duet is, in one paragraph Duet is a proactive agent. Instead of waiting for your question, it watches the apps you connect and comes to you: it scans your inbox, calendar, invoices and messages every few hours, writes a short morning brief of what it thinks matters, and messages you during the day when something needs doing. It also works while you are away — it runs on a computer of its own in the cloud, so it keeps drafting replies or chasing unpaid invoices after your laptop is shut. In Anthropic’s own words, it is “designed for judgment — deciding what needs you, what can wait, and when to check first.” ...