# Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, an Always-On Agent Wired Into Slack, Email and More Than 6,000 Connectors

On the same day, a security paper showed that persistent memory, custom skills and shared workspace features in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT can turn a single prompt injection into lasting compromise, including exfiltration between co-workers.

- Published: 2026-10-22T06:23:26.061Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-22/anthropic-launches-claude-duet-an-always-on-agent-wired-into
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [arXiv cs.CR](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28810), [MacRumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/21/anthropic-claude-duet/)

Anthropic launched Claude Duet on October 21 as a research preview. Duet is a standalone app in which Claude acts as a proactive personal agent. It runs on Claude Opus 5.5 and monitors Slack, email and calendars. It sends a short brief each…

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