Anthropic has officially launched Claude Cowork, an AI agent tool for non-developers, The New Stack reported on April 9 local time.

Claude Cowork is available on all paid Claude plans, including Pro, Team and Enterprise.

Cowork is included in the Claude desktop app and supports handling work end-to-end, including text documents and spreadsheets. According to Anthropic, most Cowork users are not developers but operations, marketing, finance and legal teams, and they mainly use it for adjacent tasks such as project updates, collaboration materials and research rather than core work.

The official launch strengthens enterprise features. The key is role-based access control (RBAC). Corporate administrators can manage user groups by linking to existing employee account management systems.

It also adds a feature to finely restrict permitted actions by MCP tool. For example, it can allow reading emails in a Gmail connector while blocking sending. Usage analytics features are also provided, including team budget settings and reports on activity and skill usage by user, as well as daily, weekly and monthly active users. Team and Enterprise plan users can use OpenTelemetry to bring tool, skill and connector usage data into existing analytics pipelines. A Zoom MCP connector has also been added, allowing meeting summaries, action items and transcripts to be used directly in Cowork.

Earlier, Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork in March. Copilot Cowork is based on the same Claude engine and agent harness as Claude Cowork, but runs in the cloud within a Microsoft 365 tenant. Google and OpenAI are also targeting the same market with Gemini Agent Mode and Operator.