Matt Galligan

Dad to four kiddos, Builder, @XMTP_ co-founder

[Matt Galligan @mg]

Whoever did the naming for Claude Duet deserves high praise and a raise.

Sonnet, Opus …Duet
Duet → Do it
Duet → user and agent as a pair

Bravo 👏🏻

[Claude @claudeai]

We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.

It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

Love seeing all the new stuff. Would like to use the email aliases in particular…just have one wrinkle/request: when the bot email feature was announced it wasn't clear it was for just a single address, and couldn't be changed. So the one I have right now is…less than great. I'd have named it differently if I'd known it was permanent.

Maybe y'all might consider a one-time rename "redo" to get back on the happy path? cc @bot @poteto

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@varadh @NotionHQ Shot you a DM in the meantime, Varadh.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@NotionHQ some feedback re: Notion + agents:

1. Right now native page mentions (with @) render as bare Notion URLs to agents using the MCP.

That might lead to them missing critical context entirely, or run extra tool calls just to read page names, which may or may not be relevant to their task.

Ideally page mentions could render as markdown links to agents (or similar) so they can at least get the page names inline without the extra tool calls.

Also adding a few other things below in a thread 👇🏼. Would love to hear what you think @zachtratar @ryannystrom @sarahmsachs @ivanhzhao @akothari @nbaschez

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@varadh @NotionHQ A minute indeed! And happy to send more feedback too.

It may be a day or two, but I'll get back to you w/ some ideas/mockups.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@Mendel_Mangel @NotionHQ I just ask the agents!

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@atthatmatt @NotionHQ I've done the greenfield thing quite a few times, rolling my own, using some of the existing tooling, etc.

I think what Notion can do as an "all in one" (with caveats) is promising. Even with many of the limitations, it can serve as a good baseline for now.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

I really think Notion has got a lot going for it as a "system of record" for personal and company agents, and it's awesome to see all of the attention and effort going into making that a reality. The above are just a handful of things that could make the agent experience even better, so I felt compelled to write them up and send them on over.

I've still got some more things to send your way, but will leave it there for now. As more big ones pop up, I'll just tack on another reply to this thread.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

6. Externally connected agents have no Notion-native identifier in the system for use in People properties, comments, etc.

With named personal agents, like Dots @ChatGPT, my @bot(s), or @muse, bringing them in as first-class actors would be huge on many levels. Especially now that MCP events exist…where perhaps an @ mention of them could trigger a routine on their end.

Right now my best workaround has been to set up a separate agents database where they can be named, and @ mention those records. An external app watches for those mentions, and turns them into triggers for those same agents. But it's a lot of extra plumbing that doesn't easily scale, especially since those mentions can't be used in any People-type property.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

In June, @SamAsante and I launched Typeahead, the first product from our new company.

Today we're releasing our next Mac app. It's called Beam, and we're live on Product Hunt.

I've got Macs all over my house doing different work. Some run agents and local models. Others handle builds. When I want to use one app on another Mac, I usually end up navigating a whole second desktop through Screen Sharing.

Beam brings that app's window onto the Mac I'm using. It gets its own Dock icon and shows up in ⌘Tab. I can type into it and resize it while everything keeps running on the other Mac.

Sam has put a lot of care into making this feel natural. The video shows it better than I can explain it.

Live on Product Hunt → https://t.co/i5lNHv7d3L

[Matt Galligan @mg]

Very nice. Excited for the updates, especially synced memory.

One thing that would knock it out of the park though would be cloud browser instances w/ cookie sync, and traffic routed through Tailscale or a connected Aside instance.

That alone would make it the best agentic browser, because then my agents can piggy back off whatever I'm doing, logged in, and skip the bot filters.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@mitchellh As a Ghostty enthusiast, I've been dying to try Rex. I've signed up for the mailing list multiple times, trying with two different email addresses too, and I've never seemed to get a confirmation or anything yet. Not sure if that's as-designed, but just flagging for you.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@TheRohanVarma Just DM'ed! But replying here in case it's filtered somehow.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

Well, from a personality perspective I'd imagine it just being the dot's persona. But I could see specific tweaks for voice mode adding some expressivity when speaking.

Just thinking out loud, some sliders for things like brevity, humor, and maybe more conversational vs question-response, to name a few, would be cool.

[Matt Galligan @mg]

@athyuttamre Right on! It would also be awesome if I can pick a different voice for my dot than for the rest of the app. Better still would be the ability to tweak some of the conversational style for my dot's voice specifically.