On October 21, 2026, Anthropic opened a US waitlist for Pro and Max subscribers. Claude Duet comes forward with a morning brief, keeps working when the person steps away, and checks in before it acts.
Anthropic introduces Claude Duet as a proactive agent app. The research preview opened by waitlist on October 21, 2026, first for Pro and Max subscribers in the United States. Claude Duet is included in those plans and shares the same usage limits as the rest of Claude. For this preview it ships as its own app on iOS and Android and on claude.ai, separate from the main Claude app.
The app is built around Claude Opus 5.5 for professionals and small business owners. Each morning Claude Duet sends a short brief across connected apps. Through the day it checks those accounts every few hours and messages only when something needs attention. Tasks run from scheduling a meeting to dashboards, forecasts, prototypes, and web apps, on a virtual machine with its own browser, so a laptop or phone can stay off. Memory, skills, and connected apps carry over from the Claude account, and typing and voice share one thread.
Before Claude Duet sends a message, pays, signs a document, or deletes anything, it shows the step and waits. Trading securities and moving money between accounts stay blocked even with approval. Passwords and sign-in tokens stay hidden, as with Claude Managed Agents. An auto mode classifier checks actions, and a separate classifier blocks card numbers, government ID, and other strict data. Health details and personal finances leave only after an explicit instruction to send them. Anthropic says red teams and an outside firm tested the setup, which is also in the public bug bounty.
More than 6,000 Claude Marketplace connectors cover Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto, LinkedIn, Docusign, HubSpot, Canva, and Shopify. Link, Stripe’s wallet, can pay with a virtual card after the user approves the spend. Broker Jess Provencher saw a morning brief catch a showing on the wrong day.
This early version can still misread a thread or misjudge urgency, and it cannot yet show its browser. Background checks count toward plan limits. Access starts with Pro and Max users in the US. Read the announcement on Claude by Anthropic.
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