Claude Duet vs Dots vs Muse: Which Agent Should Be Allowed to Send Your Email?

Anthropic’s new agent runs your Thursday while your laptop is closed. Here’s where it draws the line, and where OpenAI and Meta drew theirs.

Rishi Sharma

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TL;DR

• Duet sends a morning brief, checks your connected apps every few hours, and runs tasks on its own cloud computer after you close the app. It inherits your Claude memory, skills and connectors, so setup is close to zero.
• It asks before sending, paying, signing or deleting, and some actions are blocked even if you approve them. Dots and Muse draw that line differently.
• Dots is built for ChatGPT power users and companies, Muse for personal life inside WhatsApp, and Duet for the professional or small-business owner with too many tabs open.

A real-estate broker opened her Claude Duet morning brief and found a property showing booked for the wrong day. She had not asked it to check. Anthropic published that moment with the launch on 21 October. Next to it sat a brand strategist whose client call Duet noticed was right before her flight, so it prepared a brief and offered to move the call, and a restaurant owner with about 110 employees who has it working through invoices one…