Claude's Duet Agent Connects Gemini Summaries

Anthropic rolled out Duet this week, its new consumer-facing agent for Claude, and it's built for people who have never touched a line of code. That's a departure for a company whose last big product, Claude Code, sparked a coding-agent gold rush earlier this year. Duet sits one step further from that world than even Claude Cowork, Anthropic's previous stab at a more approachable assistant.

The timing isn't random. Over the past couple of months, Instinct showed up with a sharp text-based assistant, Meta pushed Muse as a shopping helper, and OpenAI released Dots for office work. Duet leans hardest into the work angle of that group.

It's a "research preview" for now, limited to Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers in the US, with everyone else stuck on a waitlist. Anthropic pitches it at "professionals and small business owners," built to use its own judgment about what deserves attention rather than waiting for orders, so don't expect it to handle something like a burrito run.

It also comes with its own standalone app, following the same playbook Meta used for Muse. After a week of testing it against a packed travel and work schedule, the results were mixed in a specific way.