// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful
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Duet is a decent helper, if a little jumpy at times.
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Normally, the products I test don’t offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different.
Claude Duet is Anthropic’s AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who don’t write code. It’s been an interesting couple of months: Instinct gave us an impressive text-based assistant, Meta offered us its cute little guy, Muse, to help us buy things, and OpenAI gave us the more work-oriented Dots. Claude Duet is even more focused on work than those. It’s also more consumer-friendly than Claude Cowork, which was more consumer-friendly than Claude Code — the coding agent that kicked off a whole hype cycle earlier this year. I’ve been testing it over the past week as I navigate a busy travel and work schedule. At turns it has been truly useful, kind of a nag, and very eager to write about itself.
Duet is still a “research preview” according to Anthropic, and access is limited to Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers in the US, with a waitlist to join. It’s not here to order you burritos, either; it’s for “professionals and small business owners” and is meant to use its judgment about what needs your attention most.
Like Meta’s Muse, Duet has its own app. (If you’re keeping score at home, yes, it has been updated to fully support the iPhone Duo). Duet uses Claude’s characteristically cheery, minimalist design. The app is consumer-friendly and approachable. Once you’ve connected all the productivity and chat services you want, it’ll look for ways to help out with and suggest them as cards you can swipe left or right to hide or accept — kind of a to-do list Tinder.