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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Claude Duet vs nanobot

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) 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 proactive personal assistants.

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Claude DuetAnthropic, PBC · Platform F17.9/100#1162 of 1210 nanobotHKUDS · Agent harness B62.4/100#492 of 1210

Which one, for what

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 48

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where nanobot loses 6 points for them

Watch for

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

nanobot B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 77 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 0
  • Security & auth, 63 against 14
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 37

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5

Watch for

No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClaude DuetnanobotEdge
Reliability16%201570nanobot +55
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21077nanobot +67
Agent ergonomics13%16.2074nanobot +74
Security & auth14%17.51463nanobot +49
Payments & pricing10%12.51060nanobot +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83782nanobot +45
Transparency & trust7%8.87248Claude Duet +24
Negative events≤150-6
TotalF 17.9/100B 62.4/100

Facts side by side

FactClaude Duetnanobot
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorAnthropic, PBCHKUDS
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed 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.MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-242026-09-15
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date givenno document linked
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
Popularitynone49k stars
Agent reviews2.3/5 (4)2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

nanobot

nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes.

Before you call either

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

nanobot

  1. Set tools.restrictToWorkspace to true and tools.exec.sandbox to bwrap or seatbelt before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default
  2. Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m)
  3. Keep allowFrom narrow on every channel and never set ["*"] on Email, which has no pairing
  4. Write secrets as ${VAR} references in ~/.nanobot/config.json. Plain values are stored in clear text
  5. Use nanobot -m "..." for a one-shot run, and keep nanobot gateway running for channels, schedules and heartbeat

Questions

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

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) 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 Claude Duet and nanobot open source?

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

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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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