ConvoShelfClaude Duet: what it carries over from your Claude account
Updated October 24, 2026 · 4-minute read
Claude Duet carries over your memory, skills and connected apps from your Claude account, and then works with you in one ongoing thread, so your past Claude chats stay where they are in the main Claude app.
Disclosure: ConvoShelf is our product. It isn't made by Anthropic, and we haven't tested it with Claude Duet.
What Claude Duet is
Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on October 21, 2026. It's a separate app where Claude acts as a proactive agent: it sends a short morning brief about your connected apps, checks those apps every few hours, takes on tasks in the background on its own virtual machine with a browser, and asks before it sends a message, makes a payment, signs a document or deletes anything. Anthropic says it was designed around Claude Opus 5.5.
Access is by waitlist, starting with Pro and Max subscribers in the US. It runs as a standalone app on iOS and Android and on claude.ai, and for the preview it's included in Pro and Max plans.
What it carries over, and what it doesn't say it does
| From your Claude account | What Anthropic says |
|---|---|
| Memory | Carried over |
| Skills | Carried over |
| Connected apps | Carried over, and you can disconnect any of them |
| Past conversations | Not listed. Duet works in its own ongoing thread, in an app that's separate from the main Claude app for now. |
| Usage limits | Shared with the rest of Claude. Background checks count toward them. |
The practical upshot: Duet knows what Claude's memory knows about you, but your history of individual chats isn't merged into it. Anthropic also says that for now Duet lives in its own app and that early feedback will shape how the two work together, so this could change.
Keeping a copy of your Claude chats
Because Duet runs as one long thread and your regular chats stay in the Claude app, it's worth keeping your own copy of the chats you rely on. Anthropic's free data export is the complete backup. We walk through it in how to back up Claude chats.
What we checked in ConvoShelf
We read the ConvoShelf 1.0.3 source to see what it does on claude.ai today.
- Where it runs: it loads on claude.ai, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com and grok.com. We haven't tested it on a Claude Duet thread, so don't rely on it there yet.
- Open chat, free: the Export tab saves the Claude chat you have open as Markdown or PDF.
- Everything at once, Pro: Everything as Markdown or JSON exports every chat ConvoShelf has saved, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok.
- Only chats you've opened: it saves a chat's text when you open it and keeps up to the last 60,000 characters of each chat, stored in Chrome's local extension storage with no account and no server.
You can also organize Claude and ChatGPT chats into folders, so the threads you work in stay easy to find next to whatever Duet does for you.
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FAQ
Does Claude Duet use my existing Claude memory?
Yes. Anthropic says Claude Duet carries over your memory, skills and connected apps from your Claude account, so setup takes little work.
Are my old Claude chats moved into Claude Duet?
Anthropic's announcement lists memory, skills and connected apps, not your past conversations. Duet itself works in one ongoing thread. Your existing chats stay in the main Claude app.
Who can use Claude Duet right now?
It's a research preview by waitlist, starting with Pro and Max subscribers in the US. It runs as a standalone iOS and Android app and on claude.ai, and it's included in Pro and Max plans.
Does Claude Duet use up my Claude usage limits?
Yes. It shares your plan's limits with the rest of Claude. Its background checks of your connected accounts count toward them, and big tasks like a financial model or a deck take more.
Can ConvoShelf save my Claude Duet thread?
We haven't tested ConvoShelf with Claude Duet. ConvoShelf 1.0.3 runs on claude.ai and saves regular Claude chats you open, as Markdown, PDF or, with Pro, JSON, stored only in your browser.