We're opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

Anthropic announced a research preview of Claude Duet, a new standalone app where Claude acts as a proactive personal agent rather than a chatbot waiting for prompts — it monitors your apps, surfaces what needs attention, and keeps working while you're away, confirming before it acts. The preview is rolling out via waitlist to Pro and Max subscribers in the US. It matters because it is Anthropic's most direct bet on the always-on, agentic-assistant future — and a head-on challenge to OpenAI's and Google's assistant ambitions.

• Claude2026-10-21 19:09