- Anthropics Cowork is like “Claude Code for the rest of your work”
- It works across apps with connections to third-party services
- Available for $100/m for Max subscribers on Mac to begin with
Anthropic has shared the first details of its new Cowork tool, available to Claude Max subscribers in the macOS app, and it’s been described as “Claude Code for the rest of your work.”
The company explained that Cowork acts more like an AI agent than a simplified generative AI model, meaning it can make its own plans and execute tasks step by step, updating the user as it progresses.
“It feels a lot less like a back and forth and a lot more like leaving messages for a colleague,” Anthropic wrote, describing the tool, which is currently in research preview.
‘Potentially destructive actions’
Some examples Anthropic gives of Cowork’s work include generating an expense spreadsheet from multiple screenshots, creating a report from scattered notes, and cleaning email inboxes.
Cowork also offers extensions and plugins for “once you’ve mastered the basics.” Linking the tool to Claude in Chrome, for example, lets Cowork perform tasks that require browser access.
A preconfigured set of agent skills has also been added to Cowork to help it create certain document types more efficiently.
Anthropic warned of Cowork’s “potentially destructive actions”—giving it access to your files, for example, could delete them (if prompted). The company even warned about rapid injections by attackers.
“These risks aren’t new with Cowork, but this may be the first time you’re using a more advanced tool that goes beyond a simple conversation,” Anthropic wrote.
Future work includes bringing Cowork to Windows, and a separate waiting list exists for those not currently subscribing to the $100/month Max plan.
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