Proactive personal agents are the next shiny new thing in the AI realm, with Meta announcing Muse last month. OpenAI shortly followed with its own take, called Dots. So, Anthropic is a little bit late compared to its contemporaries, but the company has now announced Claude Duet. Revealed as part of a research preview, the tool is currently only available for a limited subset of users.
Claude Duet is built on Opus 5.5 and relies on information from the user’s Claude account, including memory, skills, and connected apps. It is available as its own standalone app on both Android and iOS. Furthermore, the agent runs on its own virtual machine, allowing it to operate in the background. This means that users do not need to have a Claude session open at all times.
