Claude Cowork is now available for more Claude users, along with new updates for team workflows.
Anthropic has made Claude Cowork accessible to users of the Team and Enterprise plans, and brings the platform closer to a collaborative AI infrastructure. For enterprise teams, the change matters less as a feature update and more as a change in how Claude is supposed to be used. Cowork reframes Claude as a shared, persistent workspace where context, files, and tasks live beyond a single user session. This corresponds more closely to how teams actually work than one-off chat interactions.
coworking, released earlier in Januaryallows users to perform non-technical tasks in the same asynchronous way they use Claude Code. It was initially reserved for Claude Max subscribers.
Business and team users who can access Claude Cowork can start creating workflows for their non-technical or no-code projects and even create entirely new files in the folders they have access to. However, Anthropic has not clarified whether Cowork projects or files are transferable between users, even within the same Enterprise or Team plan.
This uncertainty could be important for companies evaluating Cowork as a system of record rather than a personal productivity tool. Questions around ownership, access and continuity – such as what happens to AI-generated shared work when an employee leaves – are increasingly central as organizations integrate AI into workflows. Now that more people in Claude’s paid tiers can use Cowork, Anthropic is expanding 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 task coordination, documentation, and execution. Anthropic said Claude Cowork emerged after engineers noticed users were extending Claude Code beyond development and into broader asynchronous workflows.
Although Claude Cowork is still in research preview, Anthropic has also added new features to the tool.
The first allows people to “@-mention projects to bring context to Cowork sessions, and Claude in Chrome now shows live screenshots while it’s running.” This allows users to avoid switching windows when adding additional information to the Cowork task.
The second new feature enables the onboarding of new providers at scale.
Both features should make it easier for teams to share and expand new tasks. Together, the updates emphasize Cowork’s role as a shared infrastructure for work in progress, rather than an ephemeral chat interface.