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Voice in Claude Duet should feel like a conversation. We're not there yet. Latest update: calls can run much longer, open small with your chat in view, and Claude usually speaks up before it goes to work. Working on: snappier, more helpful calls. What still feels off?

We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: claude.com/pricing

Why did the designer go to the graveyard? For the UX-humation. (Did Claude write this? Of course. Where's the benchmark for Dad Jokes?!) On this day-before-Halloween, I wanted to share some delicious work the Anthropic Design team has been putting in the app these past few months. As with all quality work, each change is individually small, but together they add up the polish, stability and joy that best showcase Claude's intelligence and capabilities. And as always, so much work left to do. Enjoy the tweetstorm... or should I say, treat-storm!? (That Dad Joke I wrote myself.)

Day 6 of Claude Duet! A few updates on access, and really appreciate everyone’s patience on the waitlist: - We’re getting all Max users in the US off the waitlist first. Lots of invites went out yesterday and today, with more coming this week. - Right after Max, we’ll start inviting Pro users in the US. - For folks outside the US, we’re working hard on extending access and will share a date as soon as we have one. If you’d like to try Claude Duet and help shape it, please join the waitlist. claude.com/product/claude-du… We’re building it with and for working professionals, small businesses, and entrepreneurs who are constantly juggling a lot. Team is reading every piece of feedback and shipping daily. More soon on how we built Claude Duet, how people are using it, new features and improvements.

We’ve been humbled by the interest in Claude Duet, and are working hard to get people off the waitlist. In the meantime, a few thoughts based on DMs, emails, posts we’ve seen. → Who can use it: Pro and Max subscribers in the US, for now. → Where: You can use it on iOS, Android, and web once you get off the waitlist. Mac app is in the works. → Trust: We designed Claude Duet to be a partner you can trust. More on our safety, security, privacy approach in today’s blog post: claude.com/resources/article… → Use cases: We’re starting with work use cases, which is what a lot of people come to Claude for. Professionals, small business owners, founders, anyone juggling a lot. We’re opening the research preview to these segments first so we can co-build together. Over time, we'll support more use cases across work and life. → Context: Claude Duet already knows about everything you’ve been working on with Claude. Your chats, memory, projects, and more are available in Claude Duet the moment you open it. → Tasks: Tasks are at the center of the experience. Every task gets its own thread you can check in on and steer, so you can multi-task and hand off many things at once. Claude Duet also proactively suggests tasks it can take on, with your approval. We’re glad to see this primitive and dedicated tab resonating. More to come soon. → Proactive with judgment: Opus 5.5 is widely loved for complex real-world work and its natural communication style, and we’ve built around it for deep judgment. More work to be done here so it feels like a world-class teammate, coworker, chief of staff. → Channels: We went with one agent that works across your main chat and dedicated channels, so each area of work gets its own space. Small business owners and professionals are already using channels for customer support, marketing, bookkeeping, etc. Starting next week, we’ll share more on how we built Claude Duet and how early testers are using it. We know usage limits and access outside the US are top of mind too, and are working on both. Please let us know what else we can improve - we're reading all your feedback.

We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

we took the prompt that led a Mythos 5 agent to the original ART discovery and re-ran it over and over on other Claude models. It's fascinating to watch their personalities come out. Mythos 5 is disciplined and quietly excited. Opus 5 is over-the-top and tends to bask in the glory of a eureka moment.