Hands-on with Anthropic's Claude Duet agent: helpful, nagging, and oddly eager to write about itself

The Verge's Allison Johnson tested Anthropic's consumer work agent Claude Duet for a week, connecting her work email, calendar, Google Docs, and Slack, and found it genuinely useful at spotting overlooked conflicts across those sources while sometimes misreading tone and deadlines. Duet, still a research preview limited to Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers in the US with a waitlist, greets users each morning with highlights and swipeable to-do cards, and once drafted a Slack message that mimicked her lowercase writing style. She says she wants the agent as a backstop for her own organizational systems, not a replacement, and does not want it in the creative process.