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Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Claude Cowork — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Claude Code is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.

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SkillsSkills

Both products implement the open Agent Skills standard (agentskills.io): a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter plus optional scripts and references, auto-loaded when relevant or invoked with `/skill-name`. Cowork ships a bundle under the `anthropic-skills:*` namespace (pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx, skill-creator, consolidate-memory, setup-cowork) and exposes installed-plugin skills the same way Claude Code does. A skill authored for Claude Code (`.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md`) will run essentially unchanged in Cowork if packaged as a plugin. The skill-creator skill is the recommended way for non-developers to build skills in Cowork; Claude Code users can hand-author the SKILL.md.

Gotchas

Warning: Cowork does not give non-devs a project-level `.claude/skills/` directory to drop files into — skills are typically installed as plugins or created via the skill-creator skill, not by hand-editing a checked-in folder.
Warning: Some Claude Code skill frontmatter keys that depend on terminal idioms (e.g., `shell`, certain `allowed-tools` patterns) may behave differently in Cowork's sandbox where tools have different names (`mcp__workspace__bash` vs `Bash`).
Warning: Slash-command discovery in Cowork is via the in-app picker; in Claude Code it's `/skills` and tab completion.

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Plan and pricing gatingPlans and pricing

Both products are bundled into the same Anthropic consumer/business subscriptions and share usage quotas. As of July 2026, Cowork is generally available on macOS and Windows (it reached GA on 2026-04-09, exiting the earlier research preview), with a Linux build in beta; it is included for all paid plans — Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise (Free tier excluded). Pro ($20/mo or $17/mo annual) unlocks both Claude Code and Cowork; Max 5x ($100) and Max 20x ($200) scale usage proportionally. Team (Standard $25/seat monthly or $20 annual, Premium $125/seat monthly or $100 annual; 5-seat minimum, 150 maximum) and Enterprise tiers also include Cowork, with the enterprise rollout adding admin controls to manage feature access, spend, and usage across the org, plus private plugin marketplaces and connectors (e.g., Slack, Chrome). Quota burned in either product counts against the same weekly caps; setting `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` overrides plan-based auth in Claude Code but is not applicable to Cowork's GUI flow.

Gotchas

Warning: Cowork is GA on macOS/Windows but the Linux desktop build is still beta; plan gating and naming can still evolve, so confirm current inclusions on the pricing page.
Warning: Free-tier Claude.ai users cannot access either product — both require at least Pro.
Warning: Heavy Cowork use can starve a developer's Claude Code budget on the same subscription — Anthropic documents that Cowork tasks consume MORE of the shared usage allocation than regular chat because multi-step tasks are computationally intensive; in Team/Enterprise this may need separate quota tracking via the admin console.
Warning: Earlier enterprise-launch materials named connectors like Docusign and FactSet; the current Cowork product page lists only generic connector support (Slack, Chrome) and private plugin marketplaces — verify any specific connector need before promising it in a migration plan. Claude Code does not ship those connectors out of the box.

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