Yesterday, Anthropic launched Cowork, a research preview that is essentially Claude Code but for non-coders.

From the blog announcement:

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. It can, for example, re-organize your downloads by sorting and renaming each file, create a new spreadsheet with a list of expenses from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft of a report from your scattered notes.

In Cowork, Claude completes work like this with much more agency than you’d see in a regular conversation. Once you’ve set it a task, Claude will make a plan and steadily complete it, while looping you in on what it’s up to. If you’ve used Claude Code, this will feel familiar—Cowork is built on the very same foundations. This means Cowork can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks.

Apparently, Cowork was built very quickly using—naturally—Claude Code. Michael Nuñez in VentureBeat:

…according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.

Alas, this is only available to Claude Max subscribers ($100–200 per month). I will need to check it out when it’s more widely available.