Anthropic Announces Claude Duet, an Autonomous Agent App
Claude Duet shifts Anthropic's product from answering prompts to acting on its own, and the permission step on outgoing email is the small control that decides whether that autonomy stays useful.
Reporting from 2 sources: ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE.
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, an AI agent app built on Claude Opus 5.5. Claude Duet is offered for iOS, Android, and as a web app, and signing in with a Claude account carries over memory, skills, and connected apps. It can gather information on its own, send messages to the user, build dashboards, and draft emails. Draft emails wait for user permission before sending. Claude Duet is in research preview, limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States.
Claude Duet runs on Claude Opus 5.5 and uses connectors and plugins from the Claude Marketplace. Anthropic lists tasks such as finding missed Gmail and Slack messages and prompting the user to reply, creating a job posting and publishing it to LinkedIn, and building product announcement materials with Canva. The app also produces dashboards, not only text messages.
Outgoing email is the one place the agent stops. Drafts are not sent until the user grants permission, and the user can edit them. At the time of writing, Claude Duet is a research preview limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.