Episode 84 · Season 1
Claude Duet: The AI Agent That Works While You Sleep
Chat sessions and scheduled jobs only do what you already knew to ask for, and the things you never thought to check are the ones that cost you. Tim Harting and Gavin Franklin of Cirrius Solutions break down Claude Duet, Anthropic’s proactive agent now in research preview, and show what it caught for them in its first week.
What you’ll learn:
- The three things that set Claude Duet apart from Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and scheduled jobs: mobile first, running while you are away, and a proactive harness that is casting a wider net than any task you would have written yourself
- How the morning brief turns into a list of proposed tasks you approve with a tap, and where Duet stops and asks before it sends, signs, creates a record, or pays
- Two real catches from one Monday morning: a customer reference request sent to two different email addresses, and vendor pricing in Slack that did not match what a prospect was being told
Who it’s for:
Pro and Max subscribers who already have Duet and want ideas for the first week, and leaders on Teams and Enterprise plans deciding now how a proactive agent should fit their workflow before it reaches them.
Guest + credibility:
Tim Harting is COO of Cirrius Solutions and has run his own agents in Claude Code for the past year, so his read on Duet comes from a sophisticated setup rather than a blank slate. Gavin Franklin is Head of Custom Development at Cirrius Solutions and brings the developer’s view of where a proactive agent belongs next to Claude Code.
Primary CTA:
If you want a second set of eyes on what a proactive agent should and should not be allowed to touch in your business, reach out to Cirrius Solutions.
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We cover
- Exploring Claude Duet and Its Impact
- Three Key Differentiators
- Setup and the Morning Brief
- Why It Matters
- Multi-Agent Workflows and Customization
- The Mechanic Shop Analogy
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction to Cirrius Talk and AI Agents
- 0:25Exploring Claude Duet and Its Impact
- 3:48Three Key Differentiators
- 5:32Setup and the Morning Brief
- 9:01Why It Matters
- 12:06Multi-Agent Workflows and Customization
- 14:43The Mechanic Shop Analogy
- 15:49Real-World Examples from Monday Morning
- 19:20More Use Cases
- 21:03Key Takeaways and Which Tool to Use
- 23:05Host Wrap-Up
- 24:50Wrapup and Next Steps
Resources and downloads
The artifacts Greg’s team built for this episode, free to download.
Always On: Inside Claude Duet
Explains Claude Duet, Anthropic’s proactive background agent, in research preview on iOS, Android and claude.ai. Shows the five-step loop that keeps running in the cloud between your prompts (watch, brief, assign, execute, hand back), the three autonomy levels (on its own, asks first, blocked), and workflows across inbox, finance, hiring, sales, calendar and commerce that each end at an approval point, plus the known gaps.
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