- Anthropic’s Cowork is like “Claude Code for the rest of your work”
- This will work on apps with connectors to third-party services
- Available for $100/m for Max subscribers on Mac to start
Anthropic has shared the first details of its new Cowork tool, available to Claude Max subscribers in the macOS app, and it has been described as “Claude Code for the rest of your work.”
The company explained that Cowork functions more like an AI agent than a simplistic generative AI model, meaning it can develop its own plans and execute tasks step by step, updating the user as they progress.
“This feels a lot less like going back and forth than leaving messages for a colleague,” Anthropic wrote, describing the tool that is currently in search preview.
“Potentially destructive actions”
Some examples Anthropic gave of Cowork’s work include generating an expenses spreadsheet from multiple screenshots, writing a report from scattered notes, and cleaning out email inboxes.
Cowork also offers extensions and connectors for “when you’ve mastered the basics”. Linking the tool to Claude in Chrome, for example, allows Cowork to perform tasks that require browser access.
A pre-configured set of agent skills has also been added to Cowork to help it create certain types of documents more efficiently.
Anthropic warned of Cowork’s “potentially destructive actions”: by giving it access to your files, for example, it could delete them (if asked). The company even warned of rapid injections from attackers.
“These risks are not new with Cowork, but this may be the first time you use a more advanced tool that goes beyond a simple conversation,” Anthropic wrote.
Future work includes integrating Cowork on Windows, and a separate waitlist exists for those not currently subscribed to the $100/month Max plan.
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