Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to mobile and web

Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork AI agent from a desktop-only application to mobile and web platforms, a move that significantly broadens the tool's accessibility and repositions it as a general-purpose administrative assistant. The rollout began in beta on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, starting with subscribers to the company's Max plan, with access expected to expand to other subscription tiers in the coming weeks.

Previously available only as a desktop app since its launch in January 2026, Claude Cowork is designed to handle multi-step knowledge work tasks across connected applications like email, calendars, and documents. The expansion enables a new cross-device workflow where a user can initiate a task on a desktop computer, monitor its progress via a smartphone, and retrieve the finished output from a web browser, even if the original device is offline. The company says tasks can continue running autonomously in the background, and the agent will pause to request human input via mobile notification when a decision requires user judgment, with no output finalized without review.

Alongside the platform expansion, Anthropic released data on how the tool is being used, drawn...