Anthropic is staging a proactive assistant called Orbit inside Claude Cowork, according to references dug out of recent web and mobile builds by TestingCatalog on May 4. The feature would generate scheduled briefings from a user's connected work apps without anyone prompting Claude to look.
For now it's a toggle in the settings panel. That's the standard pre-launch tell.
What's actually in there
Per the strings found in code, Orbit is opt-in, time zone-aware, and meant to span both Claude and Claude Code. The connector list reads like a knowledge worker's daily stack with a developer twist: Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Calendar, Drive, Figma. The GitHub and Figma inclusions are the thing worth flagging. Most proactive assistants pull from email and calendar and stop there.
There's also mention of "Orbit apps," pinnable mini-applications for quick access. The detail on those is thin, and the feature flags don't make clear whether they're full third-party integrations or something closer to saved workflows. Treat that one as a lead, not a fact.
The timing isn't subtle
Anthropic's Code with Claude conference opens in San Francisco on May 6, the day after this leak surfaced. Last year the company used the same event to unveil the Claude 4 family. Whether Orbit gets a stage moment or just quietly flips on for some users is the open question.
The settings-toggle stage suggests feature staging, not necessarily a same-week ship. Companies put scaffolding in builds weeks before users see anything. So a tomorrow reveal is plausible but far from guaranteed.
Catching up to Pulse
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Pulse in late September 2025, generating overnight briefings from chats, memory, and Gmail and Calendar connectors. Google has been adding similar anticipatory layers to Gemini. Perplexity's been at it too. A proactive briefing surface is becoming table stakes, not differentiation.
Anthropic's pitch, if you read between the connector choices, leans toward people who ship things. The same audience Cowork was already aimed at when it launched earlier this year as the non-coder cousin to Claude Code. Orbit looks less like a Pulse clone and more like a workflow layer for that crowd, though the actual product behavior is impossible to judge from a settings toggle.
The Code with Claude livestream runs May 6 from San Francisco. London follows on May 19, Tokyo on June 10. If Orbit's getting an official unveil, that's the window.
