Safety — approvals, payments, and off-limits

Part of the Claude Duet beginner track · Anthropic.

What Duet can do alone (per Anthropic): read, draft, and prepare.

What needs your approval: send a message, make a payment, sign, or delete.

Off-limits even with approval:

  • Trading securities
  • Moving money between accounts

Extra guardrail: a classifier that rejects sharing credit-card numbers and government ID by default.

Payments: Purchases can go through Stripe Link and Shop Pay. Treat every payment approval like a real checkout.

Connectors: Marketplace access is powerful. Every connector is something Duet can see. Remove ones you stop using.

Browser caveat: Anthropic says Duet cannot yet show you its browser. You approve based on what it reports — so start with low-risk tasks.

Weekly check:

  1. Which connectors are still on?
  2. What did it send or pay last week?
  3. Am I near my Claude usage limit? (Background work counts.)

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