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On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Co-Work,

designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code.

Built into the Claude desktop app,

the new tool lets users designate a specific folder

where Claude can read or modify files,

with further instructions given through the standard chat interface.

The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude Code,

but requires far less technical savvy to set up. Currently in

research preview, Co-work is only available to max subscribers, with a wait list available for users

on other plans. The new tool is inspired in part by the growing number of subscribers using

ClaudeCode to achieve non-coding tasks, treating it as a general-purpose agentic AI tool. Co-work is built on the

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