Anthropic expanded its Claude Cowork agent from desktop-only to mobile and web on Tuesday, letting Max subscribers start a task at their desk and get status updates or finished output on their phone even with the laptop closed. When Claude hits a step needing human judgment, it sends the question to the phone for approval before proceeding — Anthropic says nothing ships until reviewed.
The rollout is a beta starting with the Max plan, with more plans to follow over the next several weeks. Cowork will sit in the sidebar of the Claude app on iPhone, iPad, and Android, as well as on claude.ai.
Alongside the launch, Anthropic released usage data from 1.2 million anonymized sessions across 600,000+ organizations: just 8.7% was software development, while 33.4% was business-process work like turning scattered updates into reports, and 16.4% was content creation. The move mirrors OpenAI's own push to expand its Codex coding agent into general office work, positioning Cowork as an administrative assistant rather than a coding tool.