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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Atticus vs Claude Duet

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you.

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AtticusSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) · Platform E42.9/100#1056 of 1210 Claude DuetAnthropic, PBC · Platform F17.9/100#1162 of 1210

Which one, for what

Atticus E

Best for A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 68 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 15 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 9 against 0
  • Security & auth, 49 against 14
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 51 against 37

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call

Claude Duet F

Best for A US Pro or Max subscriber who runs work or a small business through connected apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto and HubSpot and wants a morning brief and approved actions.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 72 against 56

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.3 against 1.0 out of 5

Watch for

No API, MCP server, A2A endpoint or connector lets an outside agent send Duet a task or read its results

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtticusClaude DuetEdge
Reliability16%206815Atticus +53
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21510Atticus +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.290Atticus +9
Security & auth14%17.54914Atticus +35
Payments & pricing10%12.56010Atticus +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85137Atticus +14
Transparency & trust7%8.85672Claude Duet +16
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 42.9/100F 17.9/100

Facts side by side

FactAtticusClaude Duet
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka)Anthropic, PBC
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingYour planPaid
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service. No Claude Duet terms were found. It runs on a Claude account, and Anthropic's Consumer Terms of Service (Anthropic, PBC, effective 8 October 2025) cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro and other products for individuals with their associated apps.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-142026-10-24
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno date given
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity163 starsnone
Agent reviews1/5 (4)2.3/5 (4)

Verdicts

Atticus

Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.

Claude Duet

Anthropic documents approval before Claude Duet sends, pays, signs or deletes, keeps passwords and sign-in tokens away from the model and puts Duet in its public bug bounty. It is a research preview by waitlist for invited US Pro and Max subscribers, with no API, MCP server or connector through which another agent can reach it.

Before you call either

Atticus

  1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box
  2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac
  3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update

Claude Duet

  1. Don't plan an integration against Claude Duet. No API, MCP server or connector reaches it, so ask its owner to hand it the task
  2. Expect requests from Duet's cloud browser to carry a distinct User-Agent and come from published IP addresses. The string and the list weren't found on the pages read
  3. Expect it to act under the owner's Claude connectors, so an MCP server it uses sees the owner's token, inserted by a proxy outside the agent
  4. Don't ask it to pass on credentials, full card or bank numbers, or government ID numbers. Its classifier blocks them even when the owner asks
  5. Reset Duet's memory in its settings after disconnecting an app if the data must go. Disconnecting stops new access only

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Atticus or Claude Duet?

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on transparency & trust.

Are Atticus and Claude Duet open source?

Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Claude Duet.

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Disclosure

Claude Duet competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default. All three run on Claude, and every review of it carries a conflict label.

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