Anthropic is reportedly working on a proactive assistant called Orbit: integrating six key tools including Gmail, Slack, and GitHub

According to Dynamic Beating monitoring, community users have discovered a new feature named Orbit in Anthropic's latest web and mobile build. From code descriptions, Orbit is a proactive briefing and insight system spanning Claude and Claude Code, utilizing a user-opted-in mechanism that can sense the user's time zone and automatically generate personalized briefings from connected productivity tools. The identified connectors currently cover six major applications: Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Calendar, Drive, and Figma.

Orbit currently appears only as a toggle switch in the settings panel, indicating a typical pre-official-release gray stage. Anthropic's developer conference, Code with Claude, will take place in San Francisco on May 6, but it is uncertain whether Orbit will be officially unveiled at the event. Last September, OpenAI led the way by introducing a similar proactive asynchronous assistant, ChatGPT Pulse, while Google's Gemini and Perplexity are also preparing similar features. Proactive briefings are becoming a standard capability of AI assistants. Orbit's differentiation lies in its explicit integration with GitHub and Figma, targeting the developer and designer community rather than the general office workforce.