Claude Duet opens a restricted preview for proactive personal assistance
Anthropic’s Claude Duet can prepare work in the background, but access begins with a US waitlist for Pro and Max subscribers and actions remain subject to user authorization.
Claude Duet, announced October 21, is a research preview for eligible US Claude Pro and Max subscribers who join its waitlist.
It runs through a cloud environment and can keep preparing work while the user is offline. Background checks and conversations share the subscriber’s usage limits, so the preview is not an additional unlimited service. [1]
Anthropic requires approval for important actions such as potentially sensitive sends, payments and deletion. An explicit user request can already supply consent for a send, so an additional prompt is not always required. Payments still require per-purchase approval, while securities trading and transfers between accounts remain prohibited even with approval. The research preview can still misunderstand intent or urgency. [1][2][3]
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- Anthropic — Claude Duet
October 21 restricted research preview, eligibility, usage and action boundaries.
- Anthropic — Duet safety, privacy and security
October 23 design explanation; vendor assurance is not an independent security audit.
- Stripe — Anthropic and Stripe
October 21 payment-partner account of approval and virtual-card mechanism.
- Managed Agents security architecture
Underlying same-publisher architecture linked by Duet's safety article; credential isolation is a design statement, not independent verification of Duet's implementation.
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An explicit request can authorize a send. Payments require approval for each purchase.
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