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Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork is the third way to use Claude — a "Tasks" mode inside the Claude Desktop app, next to Chat and Claude Code. It runs the same agentic engine that powers Claude Code, but with no terminal and no coding: you describe an outcome, Claude proposes a plan, and once you approve it works across your local files, folders and apps to hand back a finished deliverable — organised files, a drafted report, a populated spreadsheet, a synthesised literature review. Built for non-technical knowledge workers (research, operations, finance, legal, marketing), it runs shell commands and code in an isolated virtual machine scoped to the folders you authorise, and for bigger jobs coordinates several sub-agents in parallel. Connectors (Gmail, Drive, Chrome, Slack) and job-function plugins add your real tools and know-how, and a /schedule command turns any task into recurring work. For a scientist, it's the assistant that turns a folder of messy data and notes into a clean, finished output.

• paid
• cloud
• Commercial