Claude Cowork turns Claude from a chat tool into shared AI infrastructure

Claude Cowork is now available to more Claude users, alongside new updates aimed at team workflows.

Anthropic made Claude Cowork accessible to users on Team and Enterprise plans, and it brings the platform closer to being a collaborative AI infrastructure. For enterprise teams, the change matters less as a feature update than as a shift in how Claude is meant to be used. Cowork reframes Claude as a shared, persistent workspace where context, files, and tasks live beyond a single user session. This aligns more closely with how teams actually operate than one-off chat interactions.

Cowork, released earlier in January, lets people complete non-technical tasks in the same asynchronous way they use Claude Code. It was initially limited to Claude Max subscribers. 

Enterprise and Teams users who can access Claude Cowork can begin building workflows for their non-technical, or no-code, projects and even create entirely new files within the folders they have access to. However, Anthropic did not say whether Cowork projects or files are transferable between users, even within the same Enterprise or Team plan.

That uncertainty could matter for enterprises evaluating Cowork as a system of record rather than a personal productivity tool. Questions around ownership, access, and continuity — such as what happens to shared AI-generated work when an employee leaves — are increasingly central as organizations move AI into production workflows. Now that more people across Claude’s paid tiers can use Cowork, Anthropic is extending AI-assisted workflows beyond developers and into broader teams.

As more teams experiment with AI-assisted workflows, tools originally designed for coding are increasingly being repurposed for coordination, documentation, and task execution. Anthropic said Claude Cowork emerged after engineers noticed users stretching Claude Code beyond development and into broader, asynchronous workflows.

Even though Claude Cowork is still in research preview, Anthropic also added new features to the tool. 

The first lets people “@-mention projects to bring context into Cowork sessions, and Claude in Chrome now shows live screenshots as it works.” It allows people to avoid switching windows when adding more information to the Cowork task. 

The second new feature allows onboarding of new vendors at scale. 

Both features should make it easier for teams to share and expand new tasks. Together, the updates point to Cowork’s role as shared infrastructure for ongoing work, rather than a transient chat interface.