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Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on it.

Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on it. (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)

jscottmiller 9mo ago
Looks good so far - I hope Windows support follows soon!
dabedee 9mo ago
It's great and reassuring to know that, in this day and age, products still get made entirely by one individual. > Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. > We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on > it. > (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so > you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)
- felixrieseberg 9mo ago
  Oh, to be clear, I have a team of amazing humans and Claude working with me!
- glemion43 9mo ago
  Not sure what your issue is. It's very common to say that it's my product. He also clearly stated that 'from the team '
Recursing 9mo ago
What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?
- yencabulator 9mo ago
  FYI it works. The GUI is a bit buggy, sometimes you need to resize the window to make it redraw, but.. try it?
- apstls 9mo ago
  Is it wrong that I take the prolonged lack of Linux support as a strong and direct negative signal for the capabilities of Anthropic models to autonomously or semi-autonomously work on moderately-sized codebases? I say this not as an LLM antagonist but as someone with a habit of mitigating disappointment by casting it to aggravation.
  - meowface 9mo ago
    Disagree with what you wrote but upvoted for the excellent latter sentence. (I know commenting just to say "upvoted" is - rightfully - frowned upon, but in lampshading the faux pas I make it more sufferable.)
tekacs 9mo ago
Hullo! Congrats on shipping this, it looks great! I'm very curious about what you mean by 'cross device sync' in the post?
jmkni 9mo ago
Congrats Felix :)
bashtoni 9mo ago
Hi Felix! Simple suggestion: logo should be a cow and and orc to match how I originally read the product name.
- MarsIronPI 9mo ago
  Specifically, an orc riding a cow into battle with a pose similar to the viking(?) on the cover of Clojure for the Brave and True[0]! [0]: https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cover.png https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cov...
- simonw 9mo ago
  OK I couldn't resist that one: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb2ce https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb...
  - plingamp 9mo ago
    Sorry not related - your blog is awesome. Cool to see you here on HN!
    - brazukadev 9mo ago
      I'm starting to suspect some of these comments might be AI generated and it is all an experiment. guy is the top comment in every other HN thread.
      - jamwil 9mo ago
        He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.
        runarberg 9mo ago
        The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.
9dev 9mo ago
Hey Felix, would love to give you feedback, but the language redirect of the website is trying to route me to de-de, and thus I can't see the page. You might want to fix this.
- marshallofsound 9mo ago
  I think this should be fixed now. If not can you tell me the URL you're getting redirected to.
politelemon 9mo ago
Hi there, your training and inference rely on the openness of Linux. Would you consider giving something back with Claude for Linux?
torben-friis 9mo ago
Question: I see that the “actions hints” in the demo show messaging people as an option. Is this a planned usecase, for the user to hand over human communication in, say, slack or similar? What are the current capabilities and limitations for that?
martinald 9mo ago
Hey, congrats on the launch. Been thinking lot about this space (wrote this back in August: https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-claude-code/ https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-c...). Would love to connect, my emails in my bio if you have time!
BaudouinVH 9mo ago
hello Felix, that page is 404 here at the moment :(
RamblingCTO 9mo ago
Was looking forward to try it, but just processing a notion page and prepare an outline for a report breaks it: This is taking longer than usual...(14m 2s) /e: stopped it and retried. it seems it can't use the connectors? I get No such tool available
hoss1474489 9mo ago
Beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace” on the Cowork tab. Force quit and relaunch, and Claude reopens on the Cowork tab, again hanging with the beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace”. Deleting vm_bundles lets me open Claude Desktop and switch tabs. Then it hangs again, I delete vm_bundles again, and open it again. This time it opens on the Chat tab and I know not to click the Cowork tab...
- marshallofsound 9mo ago
  Can you submit feedback and attach your logs when asked?
  - hoss1474489 9mo ago
    I haven’t found any place to do that.
    - marshallofsound 9mo ago
      Should be a feedback button (like a megaphone) next to your profile name in the bottom of the left sidebar.
      - deleted 9mo ago
        [deleted]
      - hoss1474489 9mo ago
        I found a feedback link in a dismissible banner on the Cowork tab. Then the clock is running to fill it out and submit it before Claude crashes.
        olliepro 9mo ago
        Lol
- carlosbaraza 9mo ago
tildef 9mo ago
Looks cool, and I'm guilty as charged of using CC for more than just code. However, as a Max subscriber since the moment it was a thing, I find it a bit disheartening to see development resources being poured into a product that isn't available on my platform. Have you considered adding first-class support for Linux? -- Or for that matter sponsoring one of the Linux repacks of Claude Desktop on Github? I would love to use this, but not if I need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it up and running.
- olliepro 9mo ago
  Can Claude code jump through the hoops for you?
mastercheif 9mo ago
Hi Felix, this looks like an incredible tool. I've been helping non-tech people at my org make agent flows for things like data analysis—this is exactly what they need. However, I don't see an option for AWS Bedrock API in the sign up form, is it planned to make this available to those using Bedrock API to access Claude models?
deanc 9mo ago
Your terms for Claude Max point to the consumer ToS. This ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes. Why is this? Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use and then have terms that strictly forbid it. I’ve been trying to reach a human at Anthropic for a week now to clarify this on behalf of our company but can’t get past your AI support.
- deleted 9mo ago
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- concinds 9mo ago
  > Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use Huh? Their "individual" plans are clearly for personal use.
  - deanc 9mo ago
    Is that why you can enter a business id on the payment form? Just read the marketing page [0]. The whole thing is aimed at people running a business or operating within one. [0] https://claude.com/pricing/max https://claude.com/pricing/max
    - concinds 9mo ago
      I hadn't seen that page, only the main pricing page, so I take it back.
    - deleted 9mo ago
      [deleted]
  - michaelt 9mo ago
    Are we or are we not in a thread entitled "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" ? :)
    - scubbo 9mo ago
      tbf, individuals do work that is not their employment (I was actually _more_ excited about this for my personal TODO lists than for my Real Adult Job, for which things like Linear already exist) - but I take your point.
oidar 9mo ago
Congrats! I'll be working this out. It doesn't seem that you can connect to gmail currently through cowork right now. When will the connectors roll out for this? (Gmail works fine in chats currently).
motoboi 9mo ago
Please give me access via api key
- motoboi 9mo ago
  What I mean is: I use Claude code A LOT via API, through vertex. Please make this accessible via api key too.
skybrian 9mo ago
Being able to undo any changes that Cowork makes seems important. Any plans for automatic snapshots or an undo log?
dcreater 9mo ago
AI and Claude Code are incredible tools. But use cases like "Organize my desktop" are horrible misapplications that are insecure, inefficient and a privacy nightmare. Its the smart refrigerator of this generation of tech. I worry that the average consumer is none the wiser but I hope a company that calls itself Anthropic is anthropic. Being transparent about what the tool is doing, what permissions it has, educating on the dangers etc. are the least you can do. With the example of clearing up your mac desktop: a) macOS already autofolds things into smart stacks b) writing a simple script that emulates an app like Hazel is a far better approach for AI to take
carlo-notion 9mo ago
Cheers Felix, congrats on the launch!
tkgally 9mo ago
You released it at just the right time for me. When I saw your announcement, I had two tasks that I was about to start working on: revising and expanding a project proposal in .docx format and adapting some slides (.pptx) from a past presentation for different audience. I created a folder for Cowork, copied a couple of hundred files into it related to the two tasks, and told Claude to prepare a comprehensive summary in markdown format of that work (and some information about me) for its future reference. The summary looked good, so I then described the two tasks to Claude and told it to start working. Its project proposal revision was just about perfect. It took me only about 10 more minutes to polish it further and send it off. The slides took more time to fix. The text content of some additional slides that Claude created was quite good and I ended up using most of it, but the formatting did not match the previous slides and I had to futz with it a while to make it consistent. Also, one slide it created used a screenshot it took using Chrome from a website I have built; the screenshot didn’t illustrate what it was supposed to very well, so I substituted a couple of different screenshots that I took myself. That job is now out the door, too. I had not been looking forward to either of those two tasks, so it’s a relief to get them done more quickly than I had expected. One initial problem: A few minutes into my first session with Claude in Cowork, after I had updated the app, it started throwing API errors and refusing to respond. I used the "Clear Cache and Restart" from the Troubleshooting menu and started over again from the start. Since then there have been no problems.
bibimsz 9mo ago
would like to be able to point at aws bedrock models like i can with claude code
pritambarhate 9mo ago
I guess you need to know about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781
VadimPR 9mo ago
Would love to see a Linux native application for this, after all a lot of folks are using it more and more these days.
pikseladam 9mo ago
Do you expect more token usage with it or will Anthropic change the limits of user token limit in the future?
column 9mo ago
Hi! Windows support when?
andreygrehov 9mo ago
Why do all similar demos show “prep the deck” use case as if everybody is building power point slides all day long?
- riku_iki 9mo ago
  that's what people who allocate corp budgets understand well
jchung 9mo ago
@Felix - How are you thinking about observability? Anthropic is very clear that evals are critical for agentic processes (your engineering blog just covered this last week). For my whole company to roll out access to agents for all staff, I'd need some way for staff (or IT) to be able to know (a) how reliable the systems are (i.e., evals), (b) how safe the systems are (could be audit trails), and (c) how often the access being given to agents is the right amount of access. This has been one of the biggest bottlenecks for our company: not the capability of the agents themselves -- the tools needed to roll them out responsibly.
tiahura 9mo ago
The announcement says existing connectors work, but only Claude for chrome does.
mkbkn 9mo ago
Can you release custom GPTs like ChatGPT has?

jscottmiller 9mo ago

Looks good so far - I hope Windows support follows soon!

dabedee 9mo ago

It's great and reassuring to know that, in this day and age, products still get made entirely by one individual. > Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. > We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on > it. > (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so > you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)

felixrieseberg 9mo ago
Oh, to be clear, I have a team of amazing humans and Claude working with me!
glemion43 9mo ago
Not sure what your issue is. It's very common to say that it's my product. He also clearly stated that 'from the team '

Recursing 9mo ago

What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?

yencabulator 9mo ago
FYI it works. The GUI is a bit buggy, sometimes you need to resize the window to make it redraw, but.. try it?
apstls 9mo ago
Is it wrong that I take the prolonged lack of Linux support as a strong and direct negative signal for the capabilities of Anthropic models to autonomously or semi-autonomously work on moderately-sized codebases? I say this not as an LLM antagonist but as someone with a habit of mitigating disappointment by casting it to aggravation.
- meowface 9mo ago
  Disagree with what you wrote but upvoted for the excellent latter sentence. (I know commenting just to say "upvoted" is - rightfully - frowned upon, but in lampshading the faux pas I make it more sufferable.)

tekacs 9mo ago

Hullo! Congrats on shipping this, it looks great! I'm very curious about what you mean by 'cross device sync' in the post?

jmkni 9mo ago

Congrats Felix :)

bashtoni 9mo ago

Hi Felix! Simple suggestion: logo should be a cow and and orc to match how I originally read the product name.

MarsIronPI 9mo ago
Specifically, an orc riding a cow into battle with a pose similar to the viking(?) on the cover of Clojure for the Brave and True[0]! [0]: https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cover.png https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cov...
simonw 9mo ago
OK I couldn't resist that one: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb2ce https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb...
- plingamp 9mo ago
  Sorry not related - your blog is awesome. Cool to see you here on HN!
  - brazukadev 9mo ago
    I'm starting to suspect some of these comments might be AI generated and it is all an experiment. guy is the top comment in every other HN thread.
    - jamwil 9mo ago
      He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.
      - runarberg 9mo ago
        The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.

9dev 9mo ago

Hey Felix, would love to give you feedback, but the language redirect of the website is trying to route me to de-de, and thus I can't see the page. You might want to fix this.

marshallofsound 9mo ago
I think this should be fixed now. If not can you tell me the URL you're getting redirected to.

politelemon 9mo ago

Hi there, your training and inference rely on the openness of Linux. Would you consider giving something back with Claude for Linux?

torben-friis 9mo ago

Question: I see that the “actions hints” in the demo show messaging people as an option. Is this a planned usecase, for the user to hand over human communication in, say, slack or similar? What are the current capabilities and limitations for that?

martinald 9mo ago

Hey, congrats on the launch. Been thinking lot about this space (wrote this back in August: https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-claude-code/ https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-c...). Would love to connect, my emails in my bio if you have time!

BaudouinVH 9mo ago

hello Felix, that page is 404 here at the moment :(

RamblingCTO 9mo ago

Was looking forward to try it, but just processing a notion page and prepare an outline for a report breaks it: This is taking longer than usual...(14m 2s) /e: stopped it and retried. it seems it can't use the connectors? I get No such tool available

hoss1474489 9mo ago

Beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace” on the Cowork tab. Force quit and relaunch, and Claude reopens on the Cowork tab, again hanging with the beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace”. Deleting vm_bundles lets me open Claude Desktop and switch tabs. Then it hangs again, I delete vm_bundles again, and open it again. This time it opens on the Chat tab and I know not to click the Cowork tab...

marshallofsound 9mo ago
Can you submit feedback and attach your logs when asked?
- hoss1474489 9mo ago
  I haven’t found any place to do that.
  - marshallofsound 9mo ago
    Should be a feedback button (like a megaphone) next to your profile name in the bottom of the left sidebar.
    - deleted 9mo ago
      [deleted]
    - hoss1474489 9mo ago
      I found a feedback link in a dismissible banner on the Cowork tab. Then the clock is running to fill it out and submit it before Claude crashes.
      - olliepro 9mo ago
        Lol
carlosbaraza 9mo ago

tildef 9mo ago

Looks cool, and I'm guilty as charged of using CC for more than just code. However, as a Max subscriber since the moment it was a thing, I find it a bit disheartening to see development resources being poured into a product that isn't available on my platform. Have you considered adding first-class support for Linux? -- Or for that matter sponsoring one of the Linux repacks of Claude Desktop on Github? I would love to use this, but not if I need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it up and running.

olliepro 9mo ago
Can Claude code jump through the hoops for you?

mastercheif 9mo ago

Hi Felix, this looks like an incredible tool. I've been helping non-tech people at my org make agent flows for things like data analysis—this is exactly what they need. However, I don't see an option for AWS Bedrock API in the sign up form, is it planned to make this available to those using Bedrock API to access Claude models?

deanc 9mo ago

Your terms for Claude Max point to the consumer ToS. This ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes. Why is this? Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use and then have terms that strictly forbid it. I’ve been trying to reach a human at Anthropic for a week now to clarify this on behalf of our company but can’t get past your AI support.

deleted 9mo ago
[deleted]
concinds 9mo ago
> Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use Huh? Their "individual" plans are clearly for personal use.
- deanc 9mo ago
  Is that why you can enter a business id on the payment form? Just read the marketing page [0]. The whole thing is aimed at people running a business or operating within one. [0] https://claude.com/pricing/max https://claude.com/pricing/max
  - concinds 9mo ago
    I hadn't seen that page, only the main pricing page, so I take it back.
  - deleted 9mo ago
    [deleted]
- michaelt 9mo ago
  Are we or are we not in a thread entitled "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" ? :)
  - scubbo 9mo ago
    tbf, individuals do work that is not their employment (I was actually _more_ excited about this for my personal TODO lists than for my Real Adult Job, for which things like Linear already exist) - but I take your point.

oidar 9mo ago

Congrats! I'll be working this out. It doesn't seem that you can connect to gmail currently through cowork right now. When will the connectors roll out for this? (Gmail works fine in chats currently).

motoboi 9mo ago

Please give me access via api key

motoboi 9mo ago
What I mean is: I use Claude code A LOT via API, through vertex. Please make this accessible via api key too.

skybrian 9mo ago

Being able to undo any changes that Cowork makes seems important. Any plans for automatic snapshots or an undo log?

dcreater 9mo ago

AI and Claude Code are incredible tools. But use cases like "Organize my desktop" are horrible misapplications that are insecure, inefficient and a privacy nightmare. Its the smart refrigerator of this generation of tech. I worry that the average consumer is none the wiser but I hope a company that calls itself Anthropic is anthropic. Being transparent about what the tool is doing, what permissions it has, educating on the dangers etc. are the least you can do. With the example of clearing up your mac desktop: a) macOS already autofolds things into smart stacks b) writing a simple script that emulates an app like Hazel is a far better approach for AI to take

carlo-notion 9mo ago

Cheers Felix, congrats on the launch!

tkgally 9mo ago

You released it at just the right time for me. When I saw your announcement, I had two tasks that I was about to start working on: revising and expanding a project proposal in .docx format and adapting some slides (.pptx) from a past presentation for different audience. I created a folder for Cowork, copied a couple of hundred files into it related to the two tasks, and told Claude to prepare a comprehensive summary in markdown format of that work (and some information about me) for its future reference. The summary looked good, so I then described the two tasks to Claude and told it to start working. Its project proposal revision was just about perfect. It took me only about 10 more minutes to polish it further and send it off. The slides took more time to fix. The text content of some additional slides that Claude created was quite good and I ended up using most of it, but the formatting did not match the previous slides and I had to futz with it a while to make it consistent. Also, one slide it created used a screenshot it took using Chrome from a website I have built; the screenshot didn’t illustrate what it was supposed to very well, so I substituted a couple of different screenshots that I took myself. That job is now out the door, too. I had not been looking forward to either of those two tasks, so it’s a relief to get them done more quickly than I had expected. One initial problem: A few minutes into my first session with Claude in Cowork, after I had updated the app, it started throwing API errors and refusing to respond. I used the "Clear Cache and Restart" from the Troubleshooting menu and started over again from the start. Since then there have been no problems.

bibimsz 9mo ago

would like to be able to point at aws bedrock models like i can with claude code

pritambarhate 9mo ago

I guess you need to know about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781

VadimPR 9mo ago

Would love to see a Linux native application for this, after all a lot of folks are using it more and more these days.

pikseladam 9mo ago

Do you expect more token usage with it or will Anthropic change the limits of user token limit in the future?

column 9mo ago

Hi! Windows support when?

andreygrehov 9mo ago

Why do all similar demos show “prep the deck” use case as if everybody is building power point slides all day long?

riku_iki 9mo ago
that's what people who allocate corp budgets understand well

jchung 9mo ago

@Felix - How are you thinking about observability? Anthropic is very clear that evals are critical for agentic processes (your engineering blog just covered this last week). For my whole company to roll out access to agents for all staff, I'd need some way for staff (or IT) to be able to know (a) how reliable the systems are (i.e., evals), (b) how safe the systems are (could be audit trails), and (c) how often the access being given to agents is the right amount of access. This has been one of the biggest bottlenecks for our company: not the capability of the agents themselves -- the tools needed to roll them out responsibly.

tiahura 9mo ago

The announcement says existing connectors work, but only Claude for chrome does.

mkbkn 9mo ago

Can you release custom GPTs like ChatGPT has?