📜 Anthropic just opened a research preview of something new: Claude Duet, a standalone app where Claude works as a proactive agent instead of waiting for you to type a prompt. ⚓ What Claude Duet Actually Is Duet is NOT a tab inside the Claude Desktop app you already know (Chat/Cowork/Code). It's a separate standalone app — on iOS, Android, and the web — built on Claude Opus 5.5. Instead of sitting idle until you ask something, it: - Sends you a short morning brief pulled from your connected apps - Checks in on things every few hours in the background - Messages you when something actually needs your attention - Keeps working on a task even after you close the app and walk away - Checks with you before it acts on your behalf for anything consequential ⚓ What It Can Do For You One ongoing thread (text or voice) handles both quick asks and projects that run for weeks. Anthropic's examples: scheduling meetings, building dashboards, financial/sales forecasts, prototypes, and small web apps. It can even make business purchases (via Stripe Link or Shopify Shop Pay) with your approval built in. Duet inherits the memory, skills, and connected apps already tied to your Claude account, and can tap over 6,000 connectors from the Claude Marketplace — named integrations include Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto, LinkedIn, DocuSign, HubSpot, Canva, and Shopify. ⚓ Who Gets It, and How to Try It - Available now by waitlist only — sign up through the Claude Duet product page - US accounts only for this preview - Pro and Max plans — Team and Enterprise are NOT included yet, no timeline given - No separate price: Duet runs on your existing plan's usage limits, but background check-ins and bigger projects burn through that quota faster than normal chat use ——— ☠️ Watch Out - This is an early research preview — Anthropic says it can still misjudge what's urgent and may miss things between check-ins - Personal-errand tasks are less developed than business/work tasks right now - You can't yet view the browser session it uses to work in the background - Guardrails exist (approval required before sending messages, paying, signing, or deleting anything; a separate classifier blocks it from sharing credit card numbers or government IDs; securities trading and account-to-account transfers are flatly prohibited) — but you're still handing an agent real access to your inbox, calendar, and connected tools

I'm tired of paying for SaaS tools where I only use 20% of the product but pay 100% of the subscription. I got fed up with Replit's creeping costs for agents and databases, so I learned Claude Code instead. Now I build my own tools. This community is for people who want to do the same. 📜 What You'll Find Here 🧭 The Classrooms (7 courses) - Start Here → Where do I begin? - Setting Sail → Install and build your first thing - CLAUDE.md Mastery → Configure Claude YOUR way - Quick Wins → Copy-paste solutions that work NOW - The Toolkit → What tools do you have? - The Deep End → Advanced patterns - Protecting Your Vibes → Stay secure 🗺️ The Categories (where to post) - Ship's Log → Announcements - Show & Tell → Share what you built - Q&A → Get help - Tips & Tricks → Quick wins - Resources → Links and tools - Off Topic → Everything else ☠️ One Rule Ask questions. Share wins. Help each other. No gatekeeping. Watch the video below, then head to Start Here in the Classroom. That’s it. - Jay, the Claude Code Pirate