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Cowork & Agent Teams

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Beyond a single agent, Anthropic has been shipping product-level surfaces for letting agents do sustained, collaborative work: Cowork (an agentic desktop workspace) and Agent Teams (multiple agents collaborating). This page is a high-level map — verify specifics against the official docs, since these evolve quickly.

Claude Cowork​

Think of it as a workspace where an agent does real, multi-step work alongside you — operating over files and tools on a longer horizon than a single chat turn, with you supervising. It's the consumer/pro-facing cousin of building an agent on the API: the loop is provided, you direct the goals.

Agent Teams​

Where one agent isn't enough, multiple agents collaborate — dividing a goal, each with a role and tools, coordinating toward a result. Conceptually it mirrors Claude Code's subagents, but as a product surface for sustained, multi-agent collaboration rather than a single delegated subtask.

How this relates to the rest of the site​

The constant: supervision​

:::warning More autonomy, more care Multi-agent, long-horizon work amplifies both value and risk. Keep humans in the loop on consequential actions, scope tool access tightly, and verify outputs — see Responsible Use and Securing Agents. :::

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