Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents

Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that can build daily briefings, create dashboards, suggest actions from user data, and complete background tasks in its own virtual machine, built on the Claude Opus 5.5 model with access to over 6,000 connectors and plug-ins in the Claude Marketplace. Duet can make online purchases via Stripe's Link or Shopify's Shop Pay with user approval for sensitive steps, but won't trade securities or move money between accounts, and a new classifier blocks requests for credit card numbers and government IDs by default. It is available on iOS, Android, and Claude.ai for Pro and Max customers in research preview via a waitlist.