Anthropic has just released co-work cla

code for the rest of your work. In this

video, I'll go over the blog post. I'll

take a look at what they announced. I

have a little bit of experience with

claude code. I'm going to see how it

stacks up. What are the drawbacks,

limitations, as well as what parody is

there. I imagine this is probably an

early product. From what I understand,

they actually built this in about a week

and a half. And as you might have

imagined, it was also built with cloud

code. Effectively, what they built is a

wrapper around Claude code that has a

really nice interface. Now, the way that

it works is you're going to be able to

download the Claude desktop app. There's

going to be a new tab within the top

lefthand corner called co-work. And once

you click that, you'll have this new

interface here. So, you have the chat

window, you're going to be able to have

your artifacts, and you're going to be

able to have the contacts and all of

these nice little pieces all within this

nice interface. Now the one thing that's

really interesting with this so a lot of

people have benefited from cloud code

programmers as you might imagine but a

lot of people are actually using cloud

code for non-code related purposes. They

said when we released cloud code we

expected developers to use it for

coding. They did and then they quickly

began using it for almost everything

else. This prompted us to build co-work

a simpler way for anyone not just

developers to work with cloud code in a

very same way. Co-work is available

today as a research preview for CloudMax

subscribers on our Mac OS app and will

improve rapidly from there. I did see

online that this was actually built by

Claude Code in of itself and it was

built in about a week and a half. I

would expect there to be some rough

edges especially given how quick

something like this came together but

they did mention that they are going to

be improving this. How does this work?

Effectively, you're going to be able to

point it to a directory. You're going to

be able to read, edit, create files

within that directory. They say in

co-work claude completes work with much

more agency than you'd see in a regular

conversation. If you're used to the

turnbased style of something like chat

GBT or within the cloud web app, this is

going to be quite a bit different

because the big thing around cloud code

is that it can run autonomously,

especially if you pass in the proper

flags and all of that. And then another

nice thing is you will be able to

leverage connectors directly within

Claude Code. And you can even use Claude

in Chrome, which is actually a pretty

impressive feature that they have within

Claude Code as well that you can

leverage. Now, within the blog post,

they have an example of where it's

organizing a desktop. It's going to look

at all of the different files that are

on the desktop, and then it will walk

you through what you want to do with all

of those projects. Very similar to the

interview function within Cloud Code or

the ask user question method where it

will ask you what you want to do with

it. And then here you go. you have all

of those nice directories with all of

those files sorted. The other thing to

note is just be mindful that you are

giving it access to your system. So, if

there's anything within your directory

that you don't want it to delete, be

very mindful of the instructions you're

passing. Also, be mindful of things like

prompt injections. I'll also put a link

to this with in the description of the

video. Now, what does this look like?

Within the top left hand corner within

the Cloud Desktop app, you'll be able to

see you have this new co-work feature if

you are on the Max plan. And within

here, what you're going to be able to do

is you can spin off a number of these

preset integrations. And additionally on

the right hand side here, you can see

the progress, the artifacts, as well as

the context. The first thing that I'm

going to do is I'm going to open up an

empty directory. Then within here, the

first thing that it asks me is we just

have some permissions. It's asking if it

can change files within the co-work demo

directory. And in this case, I'll say

always allowed. Now, once it's loaded

up, they have a number of different

suggestions within here. So we can go

ahead, we can say let's create a

document about a particular topic. We

can create a PRD. We can create a

meeting brief. We can create an

executive summary. So once you have a

directory loaded up, you're going to

have access to all of the latest models.

But what's really nice with how they set

this up is they give you some ideas in

terms of how you can leverage this.

Within here, I'm going to say I want to

create a presentation. And for the

presentation, I want to create a pitch

deck that is about developers digest on

YouTube. So, I'm going to go ahead and

kick that off. And we have create a

pitch deck for developers digest on

YouTube before starting ask me who the

audience is, so on and so forth. Within

here, what's really interesting with

this, if you're familiar with Claude

Code, they have the ask user question

tool. And this is effectively that who

am I having a pitch deck for? So, let's

say it's for sponsors and partners. How

much time will I have to present? Let's

say 5 minutes. Within here, I'm going to

have let's say sponsorship deals. And

then within here, I'm going to say yes,

I'll share these materials with them.

Give some clarifying information. So, I

can provide further materials it's

asking for or I can go ahead and skip

that. And the really nice thing with

this is it created a to-do list for us

and it pushed that up into the right

hand corner here where we have the

progress of it working through the

steps. We have the artifacts here that's

still empty, but within the context we

have the selected folder which we're

working in and then we also have these

working files. So we have HTML to

PowerPoint and then the CSS.md.

And from here it's beginning to go

through and create the slides. So within

here we have this JSON object and then

we have the file path with each of these

slides. It's creating these slides one

by one. We can see it's creating all of

these different files, the problem, the

solution, so on and so forth. Now within

here we can start to see the different

artifacts. And as it's going through,

let's see if I can click through to one

of these. I can allow to open up this

HTML. And we have the start of our slide

deck. We can see it's asking for

permission every time that I click

through. The really neat thing with this

is since it is the same Claude code

harness that's under the hood, you are

going to be able to leverage and build

on different skills. The one thing that

I wasn't sure about how this would work

is whether it would actually write these

different artifacts in real time as it

was going through the task. You can see

within the Coke demo folder and even if

I unhide the files, there's no hidden

folders within here or anything. We

actually see this session directory of

Happy Gracious Pasture where it's

putting out the files. Now within here

we can see it's gone through a number of

different commands. And the cool thing

with this is since it does have access

to your terminal, it can effectively go

through and install a bunch of stuff.

Here we see it's installing playright

chromium. And what it's actually doing

is it's converting this HTML to a

slideshow. It's going through a number

of different steps within here. It's pip

installing Python PowerPoint. And then

we can see it ran into some issues that

has restrictions on running within the

browser. Let me use the Python

PowerPoint approach instead. And even

within here, we can see that it's going

through steps to actually validate the

different slides by converting them to

images. It created our pitch deck for

me. So, I just opened it up within

Google. I can see the homepage here. I

can see the slideshow that it's created.

Now, the other cool thing with this is

since it is in PowerPoint format, even

if it is in not the best shape, I can go

and I can move things around. For

instance, I can change the fonts or edit

this in any way I see fit. Overall, the

really neat thing with this is it gave a

pretty good starting point for what you

could otherwise use as a type of

slideshow. Now, there's a ton of other

features that you can do within here.

So, if we just quickly look through some

of the capes, crunch data, make

prototype, organize files, prep for the

day, send a message. So, within here, I

can create a prototype. Let's say I want

to make a dashboard. And within this, we

can output it as HTML or React. you very

much can use it just like you would

starting a new app completely from

scratch within cloud code. I think the

one thing with this in case it's not

already obvious is I'm not actually sure

that a lot of developers would use this

interface but definitely what this

interface will do is it will bring in a

lot of people that may have otherwise

been maybe a little bit intimidated to

use their terminal to actually run

through commands and that experience

might feel a little bit more foreign

whereas something like this is just a

little bit nicer. Now, the other thing

that's really interesting with this is

you can begin to actually add in

different MCP servers. There are a

number within here that you can connect

to Gmail or your Google calendar, your

drive, GitHub, or you can also add in a

custom MCP server as well. The other

thing that's interesting with this

interface is it actually makes it really

easy to resume different sessions.

Previously, you could do this within

Cloud Code. You could resume different

sessions, but it wasn't as clean as

something like this where you can see it

within the UI. And one of the

interesting things with this is it gives

you a lot of different ideas how you can

actually leverage cloud code. You can

create plans for your day, plans for

your week. And where this could be

helpful, you could say today I want to

accomplish this task or my job is XYZ.

The cool thing with this is you can

actually run things in parallel. So if I

say create a beautiful Nex.js JS

application that reads developers digest

for instance. And if I send that in, the

really cool thing that I think people

will probably appreciate is you can

parallelize different tasks. I'm going

to say I want to create a presentation

on the latest AI news. And I can go

ahead and I can send that in. Within

here, we can see we have this one agent

that has some clarifying questions for

me. So I can say tech tips and we can

have dark mode and static content. For

instance, I can go ahead and send that

in. And then I can hop over to this

other conversation and I can say this is

for business executives. I can click the

number of slides. It's for AI agents and

automations. And I can go ahead and send

that in. One nice thing with this is we

have an interface where we can paralyze

a bunch of tasks. This is one of the big

skills to develop in 2026 is just being

comfortable with spinning off and

spawning off all of these different AI

agents instead of actually doing the

minutia of the day-to-day tasks that you

might have otherwise done. is what of

those tasks can you actually hand off to

an AI agent? And increasingly, it's more

tasks for developers. You can

increasingly hand off more and more

complicated tasks to these systems.

Additionally, if you're in other

departments, like you can leverage a

bunch of these agents in parallel

working on your behalf to accomplish

whatever it might be. Now, the other

thing that I do want to mention, and

I've touched on this a little bit on my

channel, one of the problems with models

right now is when I click new task, if I

don't actually equip it and give it the

context of what I want it to do, or if I

don't revisit a session of what I want

it to do, it can be dumb. Actually, it

has to learn different skills. One of

the things that I encourage people to

look at is how you can leverage skills

within these different sessions and how

you can iterate and improve on different

things as you go. For instance, there's

like a hundred things that I don't like

about this. Now, I think what a lot of

people will do is they'll see this and

they'll go, "This is not even viable.

It's going to create more work than to

actually go and make this myself." What

you can do within this is you can say,

"I always want my slides to be black,

white, and modern, and never any linear

gradients." Encode this in a skill. And

I think this is, pun intended, the skill

to learn in 2026 is once you get to the

end of whatever you're doing, similar to

a junior employee, is actually give them

feedback. Tell them what they did wrong.

Tell them how they could improve next

time. Tell them all of the different

ideas or skills that you want to try and

impart on all of them. And then just to

show you what this looks like, we have

this skill file. And then within the

skill file, we have all of the different

criteria that it added for us. We have

we only want black and white only, never

use linear gradients. And we have the

modern minimalist aesthetic. And we can

go in and update this. Alternatively,

what we can do is we can just instruct

Claude with each turn. And it doesn't

need to be something big. you can just

slowly iterate on the skills for them to

get better and better over time. Kudos

to the team at Anthropic for again great

work. I'm a huge fan of Claude Code and

I think this is just yet another product

that will introduce a ton of people into

agents and what you can actually do,

what you can automate, and all of the

new possibilities that we can do as a

result. But otherwise, let me know what

you think of Co-work. How will you be

leveraging this? Will you be using this

instead of cloud code? Will you be using

it in addition to cloud code? Otherwise,

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