Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic AI system for knowledge work, built on the same Claude Agent SDK that powers Claude Code but aimed at people who do not write code. The user defines the goal. Cowork plans the steps, asks for approval before significant actions, executes inside the folders and connectors it has been given, and shows progress as it goes. Recurring tasks can be scheduled once, daily, weekly or monthly, and continue running after the laptop is closed. Enterprise admin controls cover feature access, spend and usage tracking across an organization. It is no longer desktop-only. Anthropic publishes downloads for macOS, Windows, Windows on ARM, ChromeOS and Linux, and states that Cowork "runs on web, desktop, and mobile", with web and mobile in beta. Its own FAQ answers the question directly: a task can be started from a phone and Claude keeps working in the cloud while the laptop is shut. Connectors are the integration layer and they are built on the Model Context Protocol, in Anthropic's own words. Cowork consumes them rather than exposing a server of its own, which makes it an MCP client. The connectors named on the product page are Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Amplitude and Slack, and the plugin directory carries entries tagged for Cowork by name, including an Anthropic-verified Slack MCP server. Beyond connectors, Cowork can interact directly with the screen to open applications and drive a browser, and Anthropic is explicit about the order of preference: connectors and integrations first, the browser next, the screen only as a last resort. Plugins bundle skills, connectors and sub-agents together so a team can turn Cowork into a specialist for a particular role. Pricing, read from the vendor's own served HTML rather than the geo-converted rendering. Pro is $17 per month on an annual subscription, billed $200 up front, or $20 billed monthly, and Anthropic warns on the card itself that Cowork consumes limits faster than Chat. Max 5x is $100 per month and Max 20x is $200 per month. Team is $20 per seat per month for teams of two to 150, and includes the Slack connector. Enterprise is quoted rather than published. There is no free tier and no standalone trial, so a paid subscription is the only way to evaluate it. Security is confirmed on trust.anthropic.com and on the enterprise page. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and HIPAA are attested for Claude via the API and Claude Enterprise on the trust portal's product-scoped status table. Separately, claude.com/solutions/enterprise states "SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA compliance" in its own feature list. One gap is published by Anthropic and was re-verified word for word for this audit: "Cowork activity is not yet captured in audit logs or Compliance API." For a regulated buyer that is the sentence that matters, and it is still true. Claude Cowork is not the right fit for someone who only wants conversation. Claude Chat costs the same and carries none of the agentic token overhead. High-volume parallel browser automation belongs with a purpose-built tool, because Cowork is built for sequential multi-step work. Anyone needing sub-minute triggers should use a dedicated automation platform, since Cowork tasks are measured in minutes by design. Current state Q3 2026: Claude Fable 5 access was restored on July 1, 2026 after export controls were lifted on June 30, and Sonnet 5 launched on June 30. Both are available in Cowork. Microsoft licensed the underlying technology for Microsoft Copilot Cowork, a separate enterprise product from $30/mo, which validates the architecture at scale without being the same product.