Every article reads without JavaScript. Search and the newsletter form need it; plain-text editions are at /index.md and /llms.txt.

always-on-agents

2

Pieces

OCT 21, 2026

Last filed

Tagged always-on-agents clear ×

Claude Duet joins the always-on agents, with a list of things it won't do even if you approve

Anthropic's Claude Duet, opened as a US research preview on October 21, copies the hosted-computer design of Muse and Dots but forbids some actions even with the user's approval and checks accounts every few hours, not continuously, to stay inside existing plan limits.

Always-on agents hand approvals to a second model and liability to the user

Between August 11 and September 29, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots shipped the same standing-delegation product, and each moved routine approval from the person to a reviewer model while its terms and the courts left every consequence with the person.