Claude has also launched personal AI agents, which support sharing subscription plan quotas and direct memory inheritance.

At the table of personal agents, Claude has finally taken a seat ——

Claude Duet is officially released.

This time, Claude no longer has to wait eagerly for you to open the chat box and give instructions.

Before you arrive at your workstation in the morning, it will go through your email, calendar, and work software on its own, and sort out all the tasks you need to do today for you.

While this type of functionality is nothing new in the personal agent track, Anthropic has brought a lot of its core capabilities to the table this time.

Powered by Claude Opus 5.5, it supports access to over 6000 connectors and plugins, and can directly inherit the memories, Skills and app connections from your original Claude account.

It currently provides independent iOS, Android apps and web entry points, and shares the usage quota of the Pro and Max plans with Claude.

Of course, Claude Duet has immediately been included in the horizontal evaluation of personal agents as soon as it was launched.

OpenAI Dot, Google Gemini Spark, Grok Bot, Hermes Agent... all are on the list.

Active reminders, scheduled tasks, and background execution are basically standard features for all players in this field.

The only difference is that other vendors' Agents have already started integrating into various chat apps, but Duet has not yet accessed these third-party chat channels for now.

The tasks you assign and their progress are all kept in Duet's own interface, and you can interact with it via voice or typing.

Duet is also relatively restrained when it comes to computer operations.

It has its own cloud operating environment that can process tasks in the background, but currently it cannot directly access local files on the user's computer, nor does it provide a terminal for users to use.

Its local operation permissions are relatively limited, but the cloud tool ecosystem is quite fully prepared.

As for whether it can make good use of these work software, Anthropic has also shared a number of early user cases.

Several of these users have already had Claude catch small errors in their schedule arrangements.

Master of Time Management (Claude Duet Version)

Real estate agent Jess Provencher recently found that someone has started helping her check errors in her calendar.

Jess is both an agent and the owner of Pro Homes, and she usually spends a lot of time arranging property viewings for clients and coordinating schedules.

She asked Duet to sort out a work briefing every morning, summarizing all important items from the calendar and other connected apps.

One day, when Duet was checking the schedule as usual, it suddenly found that the date of a property viewing event was arranged incorrectly.

Before Jess herself noticed the mistake, Claude had already spotted it. Jess was very satisfied with this experience.

Brand strategist Mya Dalton also encountered a similar situation.

She was about to have a call with a potential client. After seeing the arrangement in the calendar, Duet first handed her a pre-meeting briefing to help her get a full picture of the situation in advance.

While organizing the information, it also found that the call was scheduled shortly before her flight took off.

Then Claude will take the initiative to ask: Would you like me to reschedule the meeting for you?

For small business owners with more complex affairs, Duet is more than just a "master of time management".

Amin Ebrahimi, the owner of a restaurant in Florida, USA, has about 110 employees under him.

Accounting, customer service, marketing, invoice management — all these tasks require opening different software and pulling various spreadsheets.

Amin asked Duet to assist in handling these tasks, and even asked it to sort out invoices one by one for each store.

As a result, he no longer needs to open 100 browser tabs at the same time!

If there are several unpaid invoices for a store, Duet will check the unpaid records through QuickBooks or Stripe, and then help you draft a payment reminder.

It can also help you prepare employee payroll, sort out working hours, bonuses and expense reports via Gusto, and you only need to do a final check.

If you want to recruit new staff, you can ask it to draft a recruitment notice first, and post it to LinkedIn after you are satisfied with the revised version.

There are also ready-to-use tools for marketing. Claude can use Canva to create social media content, connect to Shopify, and even assist in store building, design and store management.

To be fair, although Duet does not charge separately during the preview period, it shares the usage quota of Pro and Max plans with Claude chat.

Checking emails and generating briefings every day consumes the quota, and processing complex tasks consumes even more.

So while you have fewer browser tabs open, your Token bill has not been reduced at all...

6000+ Plugins Handle All Kinds of Trivial Tasks

Duet is also very popular inside the Claude team.

Boris Cherny, head of the Claude Code team, does not even idle when he goes out for a walk.

When he thinks of any to-do items, he tells Duet directly, without waiting to get back to his desk and turn on the computer to handle them one by one.

Chelsea Larsson, who is in charge of model and product behavior design, will assign tasks to Duet before taking care of her children.

When she comes back in the evening, she can check the work report that Duet has sorted out.

Karan Ahuja, head of the Duet team, needless to say, Duet participates in all his work including scheduling user interviews, making product prototypes, and writing code for delivery.

There are already more than 6000 connectors and plugins in Claude Marketplace, and Duet will pick the most appropriate tool to use according to the task.

Moreover, when Duet works in the background, it does not need to occupy your device all the time.

Anthropic has equipped it with an independent cloud virtual machine with a built-in browser.

You send a message to clarify the task, Duet will judge which apps to call and in what order, and continue to run the rest of the process in the cloud.

But Duet cannot directly show users its browser operation screen for now.

In addition, Duet will not directly read users' passwords or login tokens.

Anthropic has also added a sensitive information classifier, which blocks sensitive information such as credit card numbers and ID numbers from being sent out.

For sensitive information involving health, personal finance and other fields, explicit authorization from users is required.

Although many security measures have been taken, Anthropic also does not claim that Duet can be used completely without supervision.

The official admits that it may misread an email conversation or misjudge the importance level of a message at present.

At present, the waiting list for the preview version of Claude Duet is open for application, and it is initially available for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States.

Reference links:

[1]https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet

[2]https://x.com/danshipper/status/2112997559463506059

This article is from the WeChat Official Account "QbitAI", author: Wen Le, published with authorization from 36Kr.