Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

VentureBeat AI · 6 months ago

Anthropic released Cowork, a desktop agent that lets non-technical users delegate file-based tasks like expense reporting and document organization to Claude without writing code. The feature was built in approximately one and a half weeks, reportedly with substantial assistance from Claude Code itself, and is currently available only to Claude Max subscribers ($100-200 per month) on macOS. Cowork competes directly with Microsoft's Copilot by offering a sandboxed, folder-based approach to AI productivity automation, with planned expansion to Windows and other platforms.