I’ve been playing with a preview of Duet, Claude’s forthcoming personal agent. It’s positioned as being focused on work
-related stuff, but of course I asked it about bin collections. I then had a chat with it about how it had found the data.
Gratifyingly, it used the WhenIsBins connector which I’d add to Claude’s Connector Directory a couple of days ago. A connector is just an MCP server with a friendlier name.
I was also pleased to discover that Duet declares itself transparently as being an agent when using websites via its own web browser. It does this by adding the token ‘claude-agent’ to its user agent when visiting a website. This is good agentic behaviour.
Better still, Anthropic has published a blog about this, so it doesn’t rely on me parsing WhenIsBins logs.
Let’s hope the other agents follow suit and commit to self-declaring when using websites on behalf of their ‘owners’.
Looking at you, Meta Muse, Instinct et al.
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