Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals
The app aims to automate and manage tasks for small businesses and professionals.
6,000Connectors and plugins Duet can connect to
The short version
- Claude Duet is a new app from Anthropic aimed at professionals and small businesses.
- Duet can build daily briefings, create dashboards, and suggest actions based on a user's data.
- It can complete tasks in its own virtual machine in the background and return when it needs approval.
- It is built on Claude Opus 5.5 and is available on iOS, Android, and Claude.ai for Pro and Max customers in research preview.
Why it matters
Duet is another step toward agents that work on a user's behalf instead of only answering questions. Anthropic says sensitive steps such as payments need user approval, and the agent declines requests for credit card numbers and government identification by default. Rivals such as Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots are also targeting business use cases.
“The company said sensitive steps like payments would require user approval.”
What people are saying
Commenters on Hacker News were skeptical that more integrations give better results, and one said they can force relevance where there is little. Another asked why this is a separate app and not a native feature of Claude. One commenter said they prefer Anthropic models over OpenAI and look forward to trying Duet.