Claude Cowork

Anthropic's desktop agent for knowledge workers, launched January 2026 and broadened in February 2026 with enterprise connectors (Google Drive, Gmail, Docusign, FactSet, Slack) and domain plugins for finance, engineering, HR, and legal. Cowork has access to a sandboxed shell and to user-selected local folders, so it can organise files, generate documents from local material, schedule recurring tasks, and run multi-step jobs. Computer Use reached general availability on claude.ai in March 2026 and is the engine underneath.

• Local file system access (read, write, edit) within user-approved folders
• Sandboxed shell for code execution and multi-step chaining
• Recurring and on-demand task scheduling from the desktop app
• Customize panel groups skills, plugins, and connectors in one place
• Enterprise connectors for Gmail, Drive, Slack, Docusign, FactSet, and others

• Reorganise five years of project folders against a new naming convention overnight
• Pull the last twenty Docusign contracts, extract renewal dates, and post a summary to Slack
• Schedule a Monday morning task that summarises the previous week's Gmail threads with each named client
• Generate a board pack by pulling the latest figures from FactSet and the deck template from Drive
• Run a research task across five named companies and drop the comparison into Excel

Newer than Projects and Artifacts, so the rough edges are still there. Computer Use can misclick or take unexpected paths on complex web apps; treat it as a junior assistant that needs a second pair of eyes. Genuinely useful only on Max or Team Premium where the usage budget supports daily agent runs.

Included in Pro for limited usage, Max for serious use, and Team Premium for organisations. Enterprise pricing on request.