Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a new proactive AI agent designed to handle ongoing work across connected applications, surface items requiring attention, and continue completing tasks while users are away.
Claude Duet is launching as a research preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the U.S. Access is being provided gradually through a waitlist, with the service included in existing Pro and Max subscriptions during the preview. Team and Enterprise plans are not supported at launch.
Unlike the standard Claude experience, where users typically initiate individual conversations, Claude Duet is designed to proactively surface information and continue working in the background. The service runs on its own cloud computer and is powered by Claude Opus 5.5.
Users can communicate with Claude Duet through text or voice and maintain an ongoing conversation rather than starting separate prompts for every task. It also carries over memory, skills, and connected applications from a user’s existing Claude account.
One of the central features is a morning brief. Claude Duet reviews connected email and calendar accounts, identifies items that may require attention, and can begin preparing next steps such as drafting email responses. It can also continue monitoring connected applications during the day and notify users when a task is finished or requires a decision.
Claude Duet is designed to handle larger projects as well. Users can ask it to prepare research briefs, financial models, sales forecasts, slide decks, dashboards, prototypes, and web applications. The agent determines which connected tools are needed and carries out the work in the background, returning completed files for review.
Anthropic said Claude Duet can work with more than 6,000 connectors and plugins available through the Claude ecosystem. Supported workflows can involve services including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, HubSpot, Docusign, Gusto, Canva, Shopify, and other business applications.
For example, Claude Duet can identify unpaid invoices and prepare reminder emails, fill in payroll information for review, prepare agreements for signature, draft follow-up emails using CRM history, and help manage Shopify stores.
The service can also use its own browser for websites that do not have a connector. Users cannot currently watch Claude Duet operate that browser or take control of it during a task.
Anthropic has built approval requirements around more consequential actions. Claude Duet is designed to ask before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting information. Certain activities remain prohibited even with user approval, including securities trading and moving money between financial accounts.
Claude Duet can make purchases through Stripe’s Link digital wallet and Shopify’s Shop Pay. Each purchase requires approval, and Anthropic said Link purchases use a one-time virtual card rather than sharing the user’s underlying card number with a merchant.
The agent can also search previous Claude conversations for relevant context, allowing it to continue work without requiring users to repeatedly provide the same background information.
Anthropic is initially positioning Claude Duet heavily toward professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners managing work across multiple systems. Early testers have used the agent for accounting, customer support, marketing, scheduling, meeting preparation, and business administration.
Claude Duet is available through standalone iOS and Android applications and through Claude on the web. During the research preview, its work counts against the same usage limits as a user’s existing Claude subscription, including background activities such as account checks and morning briefs.
Anthropic said the research preview will help determine how Claude Duet evolves and how it eventually integrates more closely with the broader Claude experience.
