Cowork docs

Anthropic's agentic desktop workspace — usage, plugins, projects, dispatch, and enterprise (3P) deployment.

overview

• Changelog — Release notes for Claude Desktop
• Monitoring — Track Cowork usage and activity across your organization with OpenTelemetry
• Overview — Learn about Cowork, Anthropic's agentic workspace

guide

• Write a credential helper — Supply Claude with a short-lived API token by running an executable you provide.
• Run tasks in the background with Dispatch — Assign work to a Dispatch agent that plans, runs, and reports on tasks while you do something else, on this computer or from your phone.
• Install plugins — Add packaged skills, connectors, and agents to Cowork from the plugin marketplace or a file.
• Organize work with projects — Group folders, instructions, and context into a Cowork project so Claude starts each session with the right setup.

enterprise (3p)

• Sign in with AWS for Amazon Bedrock — Configure per-user AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for Amazon Bedrock instead of distributing a bearer token or requiring the AWS CLI
• Deploy Cowork on 3P with Amazon Bedrock — Set up AWS, choose an authentication path for your organization, and configure Cowork on 3P to use Claude models on Amazon Bedrock
• Per-user configuration with a bootstrap server — Host an HTTPS endpoint that returns each user's configuration so credentials, models, and policy can be administered per user without per-device MDM
• Code tab — How Cowork on 3P configuration applies to the embedded Claude Code engine
• Configuration changelog — Managed configuration keys by the Claude Desktop release that first honors them
• Configuration reference — Every managed-configuration key Cowork on 3P supports, what it controls, and recommended security profiles
• Connect to Microsoft 365 — Give Claude access to your organization's Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data through a connector you register in your own Microsoft Entra tenant.
• Write a credential helper — Supply Cowork on 3P with a short-lived inference token by running an executable you provide
• User identity and local data — How Cowork on 3P identifies users and where it stores conversations, settings, and credentials on disk
• MCP, plugins, skills, and hooks — Extend Cowork on 3P with connectors, organization plugins, skills, and hooks for administrators and end users
• Features on 3P — Feature comparison between Claude Enterprise and Cowork on third-party (3P)
• Using Cowork on 3P with Microsoft Foundry — Configure Cowork on 3P to use Claude models on Microsoft Foundry
• Gateway single sign-on with your identity provider — Let each user sign in to your LLM gateway with their own work account instead of a shared API key
• Using Cowork on 3P with an LLM Gateway — Configure Cowork on 3P to use Claude models on a self-hosted gateway that implements the Anthropic Messages API
• Installation and setup — Roll out Cowork on 3P to your organization, from a single evaluation machine to a fleet-wide MDM deployment
• Legal and compliance — Legal agreements, compliance, and security information for Cowork on 3P
• Desktop and filesystem access — How Cowork on 3P reads and writes files on the user's machine, and how to constrain it
• Using Cowork on 3P with Amazon Bedrock Mantle — Configure Cowork on 3P to use Claude models through Bedrock Mantle's Anthropic-native API surface
• Overview — Run Cowork against your own cloud inference provider
• Telemetry and egress — What Cowork on 3P sends to Anthropic, how to disable it, and the network paths your firewall needs to allow
• Sign in with Google for Google Cloud's Vertex AI — Configure per-user Google authentication for Google Cloud's Vertex AI instead of distributing a shared service-account key
• Deploy Cowork on 3P with Google Cloud's Vertex AI — Set up Google Cloud, choose an authentication path for your organization, and configure Cowork on 3P to use Claude models on Vertex AI
• Web search and web fetch — How Cowork on 3P reaches the internet, which providers support search, and how to control or disable web access