Claude Duet research preview: own VM and four hard blocks
A look at the Claude Duet research preview: Opus 5.5 on an Anthropic-hosted VM with a browser, confirmation before each move, and hard blocks on trading, transfers, sharing card or ID numbers, and seeing passwords.
IT RUNS ON A COMPUTER YOU DON'T OWN. IT ASKS BEFORE EVERY F*CKING MOVE. AND 4 THINGS YOUR "YES" WILL NEVER MAKE IT DO. Claude Duet. research preview, 21.10.2026. Opus 5.5. its own VM with a browser, parked on Anthropic infrastructure, running while your laptop is shut and your phone is face-down. one day on the dash. 07:02 brief: "checked overnight. laptop + phone off". 09:42 voice note "pay the designer invoice" and the draft parks. 12:43 Stripe Link needs your yes. 16:01 Docusign draft saved, not sent. 21:41 a deck from a voice note at the gym, built in its own browser. the 4 HARD NOs printed on the card: → trade securities. blocked. your yes does not override → move money between accounts. blocked. your yes does not override → share card numbers or ID numbers. blocked. real card never leaves the Stripe Link vault → see passwords or tokens. never. not in logs, not in context my take: the activity counters on this dash are a sim, the policy is from the launch article. research preview, US Pro and Max via waitlist. Anthropic admits urgency and personal errands are still weak. the real headline is not the VM, it is the fence around it. most agent demos skip the fence. this one is built around it.
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