Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your workCategoryProduct announcementsAgentsProductClaude appsDateJanuary 12, 2026Reading time5minShareCopy linkhttps://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-previewWhen we released Claude Code, we expected developers to use it for coding. They did—and then quickly began using it for almost everything else. This prompted us to build Cowork: a simpler way for anyone—not just developers—to work with Claude in the very same way. Cowork is available today as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers on our macOS app, and we will improve it rapidly from here.How is using Cowork different from a regular conversation? In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder of your choosing on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder….
