India, Jan. 13 -- Anthropic has rolled out Cowork, a fresh tool aimed at making Claude Code's features more accessible to those who may not be as tech-savvy.

This new functionality is built right into the Claude Desktop app and lets users pick a specific folder for Claude to read from or change, all communicated through a user-friendly chat interface.

Right now, Cowork is in a research preview phase and is only available to Max subscribers, though others can sign up for a waitlist. It works like a simplified version of Claude Code, eliminating the need for command-line tools, virtual environments, or complicated setups, which opens the door for users who aren't tech experts.

Cowork is based on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK and shares th...