Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a Background Agent That Works While You're Away

Running on Opus 5.5, Duet performs tasks on its own computer, sends a daily brief, and connects to over 6,000 apps — but asks permission before it sends, pays, or deletes. A US waitlist is open to Pro and Max subscribers.

Anthropic has opened a US waitlist for Claude Duet, a proactive agent that runs on its own computer and keeps working when you step away. As @FadyEid described it, an Opus 5.5 agent works in the background and delivers a daily brief — a shift from the request-response chatbot model toward something that operates on its own clock.

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