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They can access the apps you connect them to, prepare documents, and take actions, with approval requirements depending on the action and the permissions you grant.",[53,54,58,59],"div",{"className":55},[56,57],"text-center","mx-auto","\n  ",[60,61,62,63,62,68,62,72,58],"picture",{},"\n    ",[64,65],"source",{"srcSet":66,"type":67},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-travail-arriere-plan.avif","image/avif",[64,69],{"srcSet":70,"type":71},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-travail-arriere-plan.webp","image/webp",[73,74],"img",{"src":75,"alt":76,"width":77,"height":78,"loading":79,"decoding":80,"className":81},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-travail-arriere-plan.jpg","An AI agent keeps working in the cloud while the user’s laptop is closed",1672,941,"lazy","async",[57,82,83,84],"w-full","h-auto","rounded-xl",[38,86,88],{"id":87},"from-a-request-to-an-ongoing-responsibility","From a Request to an Ongoing Responsibility",[10,90,91],{},"Take a concrete example: preparing for a client meeting.",[10,93,94],{},"With a chatbot, I can paste my notes, attach a presentation, and ask for a summary. I get the result, then gather the missing pieces and prepare the next steps myself.",[10,96,97],{},"With an agent connected to my email, calendar, and documents, the request could become:",[99,100,101],"blockquote",{},[10,102,103],{},"Prepare for tomorrow’s meeting with this client. Find our latest exchanges, the commitments we’ve made, and the issues still open. Prepare a briefing with sources and a draft agenda, without sending anything.",[10,105,106],{},"The agent then has to find the information, cross-check it, and produce a useful document. If something is missing, it can flag it. I can close the app while it works and come back to review the result.",[10,108,109],{},"A chatbot connected to Gmail or Google Drive can already help prepare a meeting. With a personal agent, I could make this an ongoing responsibility: regularly check my calendar and prepare a briefing before each client meeting.",[10,111,112],{},[14,113,114],{},"The value lies in bringing context, tools, and follow-through into one assistant.",[10,116,117],{},"I give it work to follow over time, without having to issue a new instruction at every step.",[38,119,121],{"id":120},"claude-duet-anthropic-joins-the-race","Claude Duet: Anthropic Joins the Race",[53,123,58,125],{"className":124},[56,57],[60,126,62,127,62,130,62,133,58],{},[64,128],{"srcSet":129,"type":67},"/img/blog/illustration/claude-duet-official.avif",[64,131],{"srcSet":132,"type":71},"/img/blog/illustration/claude-duet-official.webp",[73,134],{"src":135,"alt":136,"width":137,"height":138,"loading":79,"decoding":80,"className":139},"/img/blog/illustration/claude-duet-official.jpg","Introducing Claude Duet",1600,840,[57,82,83,84],[10,141,142],{},"Claude Duet uses your existing Claude account, including its memory, skills, and connectors. 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The decision to add it to the roadmap would remain mine.",[38,284,286],{"id":285},"the-building-blocks-already-existed-putting-them-together-changes-the-experience","The Building Blocks Already Existed; Putting Them Together Changes the Experience",[10,288,289],{},"Some of these capabilities were already available in coding agents and automation tools: retaining instructions, calling tools, browsing a website, or running a scheduled task.",[10,291,292],{},"What is new is how they are brought together in a product you can turn to every day.",[10,294,295,296,300,301,305],{},"In ",[17,297,299],{"href":298},"/en/blog/context-engineering-ai-agents","my approach to context engineering",", I explain how to give agents the rules, documents, and information they need for a task. 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The agent can work in a browser, including on some websites without a dedicated connector, and keep going while my laptop is closed.",[38,313,315],{"id":314},"delegating-still-means-defining-the-work","Delegating Still Means Defining the Work",[10,317,318],{},"The simplicity of a conversation does not remove the need to explain the expected result.",[10,320,321],{},"“Take care of my clients” leaves far too many decisions unstated. “Every Friday, prepare a list of cases with no reply for seven days, along with draft follow-ups for me to approve” defines the work much more clearly.",[10,323,324],{},"This is part of what I do as a Product Engineer: clarify the need, identify reliable sources, define the actions allowed, and establish what makes the result correct.",[53,326,58,328],{"className":327},[56,57],[60,329,62,330,62,333,62,336,58],{},[64,331],{"srcSet":332,"type":67},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-cadrage-validation-humaine.avif",[64,334],{"srcSet":335,"type":71},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-cadrage-validation-humaine.webp",[73,337],{"src":338,"alt":339,"width":77,"height":78,"loading":79,"decoding":80,"className":340},"/img/blog/illustration/agents-ia-cadrage-validation-humaine.jpg","Goals, sources, and permissions define the AI agent’s work, with human approval before an email is sent",[57,82,83,84],[10,342,343],{},"These agents can still misread an exchange, miss something, or produce a convincing document with an incorrect figure.",[10,345,346,349],{},[14,347,348],{},"Delegation becomes useful when the result is easy to check and revise."," If I have to reconstruct all the research to trust it, part of the time saving disappears.",[38,351,353],{"id":352},"what-this-new-category-of-tools-changes","What This New Category of Tools Changes",[10,355,356],{},"The Claude Duet announcement confirms a direction already taken by Grok Bot, Muse, and Dots: the major AI companies want to let us hand over work that continues beyond the chat.",[10,358,359],{},"For a freelancer or a small team, that is an interesting prospect. 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