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Anthropic’s Duet links work apps but can overstate urgency
Anthropic’s Claude Duet is a work-focused AI assistant that links services such as email, calendars, Google Docs and Slack to identify tasks and suggest actions. A week of testing found it could connect information across those apps and help with planning, but its eagerness to flag issues sometimes made routine situations seem more urgent than they were.
Duet greeted the tester each morning with daily highlights, including a reminder to pack equipment for a video shoot. It also spotted a clash between planned time off and an upcoming writing deadline, then drafted notes and a Slack message. In another case, it fretted about an article awaiting an edit before 9am, despite the deadline being flexible and the editor being in a different time zone. Anthropic describes Duet as a research preview, with access limited to US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers, who can join a waitlist.
In short
- Duet connects work apps to suggest tasks and actions.
- It can help with planning, but may overstate urgency.
- The research preview is limited to some US subscribers.
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Originally published by The Verge as “Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful”.