Anthropic merges Cowork into Claude and adds document tools
Anthropic began combining Claude chat and Cowork into one interface that selects capabilities for each task and can continue work after a laptop closes. Claude Docs and Claude Slides can directly edit, comment, share and export documents and presentations, while Design creates visual assets inside conversations. The three creation tools are beta features for paid plans.
Why it matters: Automatic routing, persistent work, connectors and direct file editing place conversational assistance and consequential actions inside one interface. Users need to know whether Claude is answering, changing a document or continuing a longer task after the…