How I’m Actually Using Claude Duet (After 10 Hours of Testing)

Riley Brown · Oct 23, 2026 · 24 min · Watch on YouTube

Riley Brown shares nine takeaways from about 10 hours testing Duet, Anthropic's new standalone agent app powered by Opus 5.5, covering channels, voice editing of slide decks, and where it trails OpenAI's dots.

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The gist

Riley says Duet is a standalone iOS and web app running Opus 5.5, organized into Slack-like channels; he cut 10 down to three.
His favorite workflow is opening a slide deck on his phone during a walk and dictating all his changes in one voice prompt.
He recommends an artifacts channel with a scheduled recap, set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., that reminds him to return to unfinished work.
Riley says Duet works much like Claude Projects, but unlike Projects it cannot start local Claude Code sessions on his computer, only read past ones.

Claude Projects Claude Code
He calls Duet's real-time voice about 5% as good as OpenAI's dots, and notes no mute button, no model picker, and frequent approval prompts.

What they recommend · 3 picks

Claude Opus 5.5 Main topic

AI assistant created by Anthropic for text analysis, writing, and data interpretation.

"My main thing so far, I really like that I have access to Opus 5.5 in Claude Duet. That's my biggest benefit for using it."

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What Riley uses it for: Powering agent tasks in Duet

217 creators recommend Claude, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

16:29

Claude Projects AI tools

"So that's kind of how I find it to be similar to Claude projects, which I use all the time."

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Claude Code AI tools

"I can control Claude Code running on my computer from Claude Projects... I would love to be able to access my Claude Code locally on my computer."

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Also mentioned

0:05 Muse · "Anthropic just announced a brand new standalone app called Duet, and it will directly rival Muse, Grok bot,..."

0:32 ChatGPT · "OpenAI decided to put their agent platform dots inside the ChatGPT app."

1:53 Slack · "And then, it reminds me more of Slack, where we have these channels."

2:07 Claude Duet · "The first thing that you realize is the app just is so snappy. And it's really easy to just get around and..."

5:32 Figma · "The experience of creating any sort of asset, whether that is a slide deck, whether that is a Figma-style..."

16:00 Composio · "If you use Composio, you should have a Grok Bot skill that you can use to scrape Twitter about the whole..."

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