Claude Cowork

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   Anthropic open-sources knowledge-work plugins for Claude Cowork

   Anthropic has open-sourced a set of role-based plugins on GitHub, with an initial 11 covering sales, customer support, product management, marketing, legal, finance, data, enterprise search and bio-research. Built for Claude Cowork and also compatible with Claude Code, each plugin bundles skills, connectors, slash commands and sub-agents as plain markdown and JSON files with no code, infrastructure or build steps. Teams can swap connectors, add company terminology and processes, or write new plugins following the same structure.

   GitHub Trending · Python · 🔥 12
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   Anthropic moves Claude Cowork's VM and inference fully into the cloud

   Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg described an architecture change for Claude Cowork: the old version ran model inference in the cloud but executed tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM shipped to the user's computer, added for capability, safety and security reasons and mapping in only the data explicitly added to a session. The new version runs both inference and the VM in the cloud, with each session getting its own sandbox that shares no state with others; when the VM needs something on the user's device, such as a file, the desktop app handles that file-access tool call. Rieseberg said this addresses complaints about the local VM's disk, battery and performance cost, and about work stopping when a laptop is closed.

   Simon Willison's Weblog · 🔥 3

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