Claude Duet: The Full Breakdown + How to Get on the Waitlist

Anthropic's new proactive agent messages you first: a morning brief, tasks it runs on its own cloud computer, and a check with you before anything sensitive. What it is, who can join, and 5 steps to be ready the day you get access.

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What Claude Duet is

Claude Duet is a proactive agent from Anthropic. Instead of waiting for you to open a chat, it comes to you. It launched on October 21, 2026 as a research preview.

Morning brief: every morning it sends a short brief on what needs you across your connected apps, then goes quiet until something does.
Hand it tasks by message: text or voice, like a teammate. It sets up a meeting, builds a dashboard or drafts replies, then shares when it is done.
Its own cloud computer: the work runs on a computer in the cloud with a browser, so it keeps going when your laptop is closed.
You approve: it asks you before sensitive actions like sending messages or paying.
Your Claude, carried over: memory, skills and connected apps (6,000+ connectors and plugins) from your Claude account, powered by Opus 5.5.

Who can use it: Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US, through a waitlist. Team and Enterprise plans are not included yet. Apps for iOS and Android, and on the web at claude.ai.
Usage: it shares your plan's usage limits, and its background check-ins count toward them.

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Join the waitlist

Go to claude.com/duet and tap Join the waitlist. The form asks for first and last name, email, company, phone type (iPhone or Android) and one open question: what do you do, and what would you hand off to Claude Duet first?

Use the same email as your Claude account. Answer the open question with one concrete job, not a wish list. Anthropic has not said how it picks people from the waitlist, so treat this as making your answer clear, not as a trick to skip the line.

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I'm a [your niche] content creator and I run my own
client work.

First thing I'd hand off: watching my inbox and DMs
for brand and client replies, drafting answers for
my approval, and keeping a daily list of follow-ups
that are due.

Next: a weekly report of what I posted and which
posts brought in leads.

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Prep your Claude account now

Duet starts with whatever your Claude account already knows: memory, skills and connected apps are there from the first message. So the setup you do in Claude today is the setup Duet uses on day one.

1. Connect the apps it should watch (email, calendar, Drive, Slack, Notion).
2. Paste the prompt below into Claude so it builds a working profile and saves it to memory.
3. Turn the jobs you repeat into skills, because skills carry over too.

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Interview me with 8 short questions, one at a time,
to build my working profile:
- what I do and who I do it for
- my current clients and the brands I want
- the tools and apps I use daily
- my priorities this month
- what counts as urgent for me
- how I write (tone, length, sign-off)

Then write a one-page summary and save it to memory.

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Write your hand-off list

Duet is built for the message: "here's a task, tell me when it's done." Have the list ready before access lands.

I already run my business this way with my own agents: my comment agent has sent 13,000+ guides by DM, and my email agent drafts every reply but never sends one. The rule that makes it work is the split below: what an agent does alone, what it drafts for you, and what stays yours.

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List every task I repeat each week (ask me if
you are missing context). Sort them into 3 groups:

1. HAND OFF: an agent can do it end to end
2. DRAFT: an agent prepares it, I approve it
3. KEEP: needs my taste or my face

For each HAND OFF and DRAFT task, write the exact
one-message brief I would send to an agent.

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Set your approval rules

Duet already asks before sending messages, making payments, signing documents or deleting anything. Add your own rules on top, in plain words, as your first message.

Be honest about the limits too: Anthropic says the research preview may misread a thread or misjudge what is urgent, and can miss something that arrives between check-ins. Keep anything client-facing in the DRAFT group until it has earned your trust.

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Rules for working with me:
1. Never send anything to a client or brand
   without showing me the draft first.
2. Morning brief: max 5 items, most urgent first,
   one line each.
3. During the day, only message me if a client is
   waiting on me or a deadline is within 24 hours.
4. When you finish a task, send the result and
   one line on what you did.
5. If you are unsure, ask. Do not guess.

Source: Anthropic's official Claude Duet page, claude.com/duet. Claude Duet is built by Anthropic, not by AI Creative OS. Details are from the research preview launched October 21, 2026 and may change.

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