# Claude Duet

15 Hacker News commenters recommended Claude Duet and 32 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for managing projects across several agents, with no setup and a separate computer for each. Critics most often raise privacy and security concerns about its broad access.

## Why people recommend it

- Project management across many agents (3 comments): "Duet is where I go from an agent manager to a manager of agent managers, and I have mixed feelings about that." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300153)) "what makes Duet useful to me is that it provides project management I've been missing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300090)) "It makes managing my projects easier without trying to take over my personal life." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300067))
- Runs constantly, handles delegated tasks (2 comments): "I have delegated that down from the top channel without any problems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300119)) "It's constantly on, doing as much as it can without your input" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190532))
- Useful for personal and project work (2 comments): "it's quite useful for some of my personal usecases honestly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186280)) "feel like they are incredibly useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298004))

## What people warn about

- Privacy and security risks of broad access (3 comments): "That whole concept of always-on agents, as currently implemented by Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic is a security and privacy nightmare" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195288)) "I wouldn't give Anthropic this much access to my life, because frankly they haven't built up enough trust." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197132)) "is giving an LLM access to your password manager the mother of all bad ideas?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186284))
- Buggy app and unreliable agent actions (2 comments): "I worry how buggy their app is. I love their model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187390)) "its unable to make revisions. muse'll say, "oh sorry you did ask to blah blah but the agent did something different and i didn't check." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198456))
- Sign-up asks for too much personal data (2 comments): "Are we really at a stage where entering your name, email company name, phone type and a small personal description of why you want the service considered a big deal?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50191157)) "Signing up for this waitlist should be something you can request from your Claude chat session." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188319))
- Slow and gives up easily (2 comments): "The Duet agent is so slow that it's not actually particularly pleasant to use, even if it is smart." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188284)) "Duet seems more inclined to give up if something doesn't have a clean integration option." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300190))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [OpenClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openclaw.md): 776 recommend
- [Muse by Meta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/muse.md): 147 recommend
- [Hermes Agent by Nous Research](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hermes-agent.md): 84 recommend
- [Clawdbot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clawdbot.md): 69 recommend
- [NanoClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nanoclaw.md): 58 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claude Duet", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-duet/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).