Anthropic's new Cowork tool offers Claude coding help to non-experts

• Anthropic's Cowork is like "Claude Code for the rest of your work"
• It'll work across apps with connectors to third-party services
• Available for $100/m for Max subscribers on Mac to begin with

Anthropic has shared the first details of its new Cowork tool, available to Claude Max subscribers within the macOS app, and it's 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, which means it can make its own plans and execute tasks step-by-step, updating the user as it progresses.

"It feels much less like a back-and-forth and much more like leaving messages for a coworker," Anthropic wrote, describing the tool that's currently in research preview.