Claude Duetpreview

A separate app where Claude acts on its own initiative. It flags what needs your attention, does tasks, keeps working in the background and checks with you before acting on your behalf.

Which capability it is

An agent that works through a job on its own (Multi-step autonomous runner)

The same thing at other vendors

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Work (rolling out; every plan in the desktop app) · dots (beta)

Gemini

Task (formerly Spark; Google AI Pro or Ultra)

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Cowork — GA, paid licence · Researcher · Analyst — paid licence

Perplexity

Computer · Comet Assistant · Comet Agent

Grok

Vibe Work

Details

Status: preview (research preview, Oct 21, 2026)
Where you find it: a separate app. Secondary sources say iOS, Android and claude.ai, by waitlist.
Plans: Pro, Max. Anthropic's X account adds "through a waitlist on Pro and Max plans in the US".

Learn

Where we teach it

We name agents in Name the parts and say plainly where their edges are. We don't teach building them, and we say why. The longer class teaches the alternatives: Encode a method so someone else runs it and Set it to run without you.