- Anthropic Cowork is like “Claude Code for the rest of your work”
- It will work in applications with connectors to third-party services.
- Available for $100/mo for Max subscribers on Mac to get started
Anthropic has shared the first details of its new Cowork tool, available to Claude Max subscribers within the macOS app, and has been described as “Claude code for the rest of your work.”
The company explained that Cowork operates more like an AI agent than a simplistic generative AI model, meaning it can make its own plans and execute tasks step by step, updating the user as it goes.
“It feels a lot less like a back-and-forth and a lot more like leaving messages with a coworker,” Anthropic wrote, describing the tool that’s currently in early research.
‘Potentially destructive actions’
Some examples Anthropic gives of Cowork work include generating an expense spreadsheet from multiple screenshots, writing a report from scattered notes, and cleaning out email inboxes.
Cowork also offers extensions and connectors for “when you master the basics.” Linking the tool to Claude in Chrome, for example, allows Cowork to perform tasks that require access to the browser.
A preconfigured set of agent skills has also been added to Cowork to help you create certain types of documents more effectively.
Anthropic warned about Cowork’s “potentially destructive actions”: giving it access to your files, for example, could delete them (if instructed to do so). The company even warned of rapid injections by attackers.
“These risks are not new to Cowork, but it might be the first time you use a more advanced tool that goes beyond a simple conversation,” Anthropic wrote.
Future work includes bringing Cowork to Windows, and there is a separate waitlist for those not currently subscribed to the $100/month Max plan.
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