Anthropic introduced Claude Duet as a research preview: a proactive agent that briefs you on what needs attention across your connected apps, works in the background and asks before it acts. RAPR AI brings that idea to all the AIs you already pay for. Claude Code looks through its claude.ai connectors, Codex and Gemini through theirs, and RAPR puts it together into one brief with one approval layer.
One morning brief from every AI’s connected apps, plus your approvals, unfinished work and scheduled results
More reach than one assistant: several AIs, several accounts, any MCP server, Zapier and Composio
One tap hands an item to the AI that has the app; it asks before it sends, posts, merges or deletes
Free and open source (MIT), on your computer or your own server, with your existing AI plans
Each AI keeps its own connections. RAPR uses each app through the AI that already has it, with that AI’s sign-in, so nothing is set up twice and different accounts can live in different AIs: a work Gmail through Claude, a personal one through Codex. Settings shows exactly what each AI can reach.
The brief arrives on Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, as a phone notification and in the app. When an AI wants to act in an app, it waits for your OK; your own rules can always allow, always ask or never allow, and every decision lands in an audit log on your machine. Inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Windsurf, ask “what needs me today?”.
Claude Duet runs on Anthropic’s cloud and keeps working when your computer is off. RAPR runs where you install it: on your computer, or 24/7 on your own server (Oracle’s free tier works). The brief’s looks run on your own AI plans and count toward their usage.
Short answers for the search terms around claude duet alternative.
No. RAPR AI is an independent, open-source project. This page compares approaches for people looking for an alternative.
Yes. RAPR runs Claude Code with your own plan, including the claude.ai connectors and MCP servers you already set up, alongside Codex, Gemini, Ollama and other AIs.
No. RAPR AI is free to install today on Windows, macOS or a Linux server, and works with the AI subscriptions or local models you already have.
No. The brief only reads. When you hand an item to an AI, anything it then wants to send, post, merge or delete asks you first.