12th January 2026 New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”. It’s currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 or $200 per month plans) as part of the updated Claude Desktop macOS application. I’ve been saying for a while now that Claude Code is a “general agent” disguised as a developer tool. It can help you with any computer task that can be achieved by executing code or running terminal commands... which ...