Hand Claude a task, not just a question.
Claude is Anthropic's app for everyday work, on the web, desktop and mobile. It answers questions, but its real use at work is delegation: say what you need as you would to a colleague, point it at the files and tools involved, and it works out the steps, asks when it needs you, and hands back an editable document, spreadsheet, deck or dashboard for you to review and sign off.
Claude Cowork and chat are now one app: Anthropic says Cowork's ability to work across your files and tools comes in automatically when a task needs it.
Give Claude more than a question.
Anthropic's own description of the change: from asking for an answer to handing over a task, a tangled idea or a big project.
- 01Take tasks off your desk
- Mine data, pull information together or make a first draft, and get time back to make the call.
- 02Turn ideas into something real
- Bring a half-formed idea and get back a deck, a working prototype, a financial model or a draft you can edit and put your name on.
- 03Work that keeps going
- Long tasks run after you close the laptop, several tasks run in parallel, and scheduled tasks repeat on a cadence you choose.
- 04In the tools you use
- Connectors bring in your apps, and Claude works inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Chrome and Slack.
- 05It remembers how you work
- Projects, memory and instructions keep context; skills repeat a procedure your way every time.
- 06You keep the final say
- Changes appear as tracked edits in Word and highlighted cells in Excel; Claude can show its plan and wait for approval, and by default asks before permanently deleting files.
Eight ways Claude works, up close.
Pick one to see what Anthropic describes, and how it might look.
Delegate the work, review the result
Claude works in the folders and tools you choose.
- Claude works directly in the folders and tools you allow and delivers finished work for review, with no copying from a chat into files.
- It shows each step as it goes: the files it opens, the tools it uses and the choices it makes, so you can redirect it.
- Tasks keep running when you close your laptop; start one from your phone and check in from anywhere.
- Schedule a task for any cadence and it runs unattended: daily, weekly or monthly reports, close work, reviews.
- Big projects are split into chunks that run together, so research and drafting happen at once.
- A built-in browser handles web steps in a side panel, separate from your own browser and logins.
Say what, not how
Anthropic's line: tell Claude what you need, not how to do it. It opens a browser for web tasks and takes over the screen only when it has to.
One working day, handed over in pieces.
Built from Anthropic's own examples of how people use Claude. An illustration, not a promise of any particular set-up.
- 8:00Action items pulled from meeting transcripts and posted to the team.
- 10:00Prep for a client call: account history from the CRM.
- 12:00Customer feedback grouped into themes and tied to the roadmap.
- 14:00A contract checked against the playbook and marked up.
- 16:00The H2 budget rolled forward in Excel, changed cells flagged.
Illustrative. Which tools Claude may use, and what it may change without asking, is set by your administrators and by each person's permissions.
Every function, in its own way.
Anthropic shows Claude at work in each of these roles.
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Straight answers.
What happened to Claude Cowork?
Anthropic says Claude Cowork and chat are now integrated within Claude. When a task calls for working with your files, Claude brings in Cowork's capabilities automatically, and chats, projects, artifacts, connectors and skills are where they were.
Do we need the desktop app?
No. Claude runs on the web and on iOS and Android. The desktop app, for macOS and Windows, adds access to the folders and applications on your own computer.
What files can Claude work with?
Anthropic lists Word, PDF, plain text, Markdown, HTML, JSON, CSV and TSV; Excel; PowerPoint; common image formats; YAML, XML and TOML; Jupyter notebooks; and code in almost any language. Connectors add more.
Can Claude act without asking?
You choose. Permission settings make Claude show its plan and wait for approval, it works only in the folders and tools you allow, and by default it asks before permanently deleting files.
Which plans include Claude for Microsoft 365?
Anthropic's pricing lists Claude in Chrome and Microsoft 365 from the Pro plan up, and Microsoft 365 and Claude Tag on the Team plan.
Checked against Anthropic's own pages in November 2026.
You are on Claude. Where next?
Claude Enterprise, the Claude Platform, Claude and Claude Code each have their own page. Visit them in any order. Choose one to go there.
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- 01Deploy to your peopleClaude EnterpriseClaude for every employee, with the controls IT needs.Secure access to Chat, Claude Cowork, Claude Code and your company's connectors for the whole workforce, with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, retention controls and spend limits.Chat and CoworkClaude CodeSSO and SCIMNo training by defaultGo to Claude Enterprise →
- 02Build into your productsClaude PlatformBuild Claude into your products, services and agents.The Claude API, its tools and Claude Managed Agents, for developers building AI into applications and running production agents, directly or on AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry.Messages APIManaged AgentsMCP and skillsRegional residencyGo to Claude Platform →
- You are here03For everyone at workClaudeHand Claude a task, not just a question.The Claude app on web, desktop and mobile, with Cowork's ability to work across your files and tools, finished documents and decks, and Claude inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Chrome and Slack.Tasks and schedulingArtifactsConnectors and skillsMicrosoft 365You are viewing this page
- 04For developersClaude CodeAn agentic coding tool for the whole codebase.Hand Claude a bug fix, a test or a multi-day migration and steer it from the terminal, the IDE, Slack or the web. It reads the whole repository, runs your tests and opens the pull request.Terminal and IDEIssues to PRsCode ReviewManaged settingsGo to Claude Code →
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Talk it through with us.
Tell us what you want Claude to do for your organisation, and we will help you work out where to start, safely.
- Your goals, data and the systems involved
- Claude Enterprise, the Platform, or both
- A sensible first step
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