Week-long study of Claude Duet setups finds 4 rules for channels that don't drift

iamdemetrius_ · reddit · 2026-10-29

After a week digging through X posts, YouTube walkthroughs, Dan Shipper's Every review and Anthropic's examples — 33 use cases, only 2 channel purposes shared verbatim — the author distilled 4 recurring rules:

One channel, one job: an email-only channel works; mixing email + calendar + research drifts.
Say what done looks like: a job-search channel reduced to one sentence with a clear goal and deadline ("land a remote infra role at a high-growth startup by year end").
Put limits at both ends: write your own "don't delete/send without my yes" into the Purpose.
Don't make too many channels: Riley Brown built 10, kept 3.

Bonus warning: unfinished tasks keep getting checked while you're idle and count toward your usage — mark them done.

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