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Claude Cowork. Set up for your teams, with approvals in place.

Cowork is how your people hand real work to Claude: it plans the task, works across files and connected tools and delivers the result. We set it up for your teams, with connectors, approvals, security settings and training by department.

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What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is the way of working in Claude where you hand over a task instead of asking a question: Claude plans it, works across your files and connected tools and delivers a finished document, deck or analysis, asking for approval before it acts. In 2026 Anthropic merged Cowork and chat into one Claude. For existing Enterprise organisations the unified experience turns on by default on 16 November 2026, unless an owner keeps it disabled.

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unified Claude on by default for Enterprise
16 Nov 2026
desktop, web, mobile and the Chrome side panel
4 places
team intensive on real work
2 days

What does a Cowork setup include?

The settings your security team needs, and the habits your people need.

  • Workspace settings

    Cowork enabled for the right groups, with cloud runs and scheduled tasks set to your policy.

  • Connectors

    The tools your teams use, added for the organisation, each tool set to always allow, needs approval or blocked.

  • Security settings

    Approval rules, network egress and the Compliance API reviewed with your security team.

  • Skills and plugins

    Reusable skills for recurring tasks, installed by default or made available to the teams that need them.

  • Use cases by department

    The tasks worth delegating in finance, legal, sales, operations and HR.

  • Hands-on training

    People learn to hand over a task, steer it and check the result.

How it works

How does a Cowork task run?

You describe the outcome, Claude does the work, you keep the final say.

  1. Describe the outcome

    You

    What you need, which files and tools to use, and by when.

  2. Plan

    Claude

    Claude breaks the task into steps and shows its plan.

  3. Work

    Claude

    It reads files, uses connected tools and drafts the output.

  4. Approve

    You

    It asks before actions such as sending a message or changing a record.

  5. Deliver

    Claude

    A finished document, deck, spreadsheet or analysis.

Where to start

How do we start with Cowork?

Fixed formats with a clear scope. Prices are agreed in a written proposal.

  • Training

    Team intensive

    Hands-on training on the department’s real workflows.

    Duration
    2 days
    Group
    Up to 20 people

  • Claude Enterprise

    Foundations

    Single sign-on, roles, data policies, connectors, a library of skills and basic training.

    Duration
    About 3 weeks
    Group
    Up to 50 people

FAQ

Claude Cowork, in short

What is the difference between Claude Cowork and chat?

Chat is for thinking a problem through with Claude; Cowork is for handing it a task to complete. Anthropic has merged the two into one Claude that chooses the approach each task needs.

Is Cowork included in Claude Team and Enterprise?

Yes. Anthropic includes Cowork in Team and Enterprise seats.

When does unified Claude turn on for Enterprise?

On 16 November 2026 for existing Enterprise organisations, unless an owner chooses to keep it disabled. It can also be turned off later.

Does Claude act without asking?

By default it asks for approval before it acts. Owners can stop members from letting Claude act without asking, and can set each connector tool to always allow, needs approval or blocked.

Where does Cowork run?

On desktop, web, mobile and in the Claude in Chrome side panel. Desktop is the full experience, where Claude can also use local files and the browser.

What is the difference between Claude Cowork and Claude Code?

Cowork brings Claude Code’s agentic way of working to knowledge work: documents, analyses and presentations instead of software.

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