Claude Cowork

Claude's mode for handing over bigger multi-step jobs such as reports, spreadsheets and presentations. It now runs on desktop, web and mobile, and is being folded into ordinary chat.

Which capability it is

An agent that works through a job on its own (Multi-step autonomous runner)

The same thing at other vendors

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Work (rolling out; every plan in the desktop app) · dots (beta)

Gemini

Task (formerly Spark; Google AI Pro or Ultra)

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Cowork — GA, paid licence · Researcher · Analyst — paid licence

Perplexity

Computer · Comet Assistant · Comet Agent

Grok

Vibe Work

Details

Where you find it: Claude Desktop; web and mobile
Part of: Claude
Plans: unclear from the pages read. Web and mobile started with Max, "with more plans to follow". The self-serve Enterprise seat includes Cowork.
Admin must turn it on?: On Enterprise, admins can use role-based controls to turn Cowork on for specific teams.

Learn

Where we teach it

We name agents in Name the parts and say plainly where their edges are. We don't teach building them, and we say why. The longer class teaches the alternatives: Encode a method so someone else runs it and Set it to run without you.