Claude Cowork — The AI Glossary

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Claude Cowork.

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Also known as: Cowork

Claude Code wrapped in a clean interface for non-coding work. It's aimed at the non-technical founder who looks at a terminal and freezes.

Under the hood it runs in an isolated VM on your computer (a sealed-off mini-computer inside your computer, so it can work without touching the rest of your setup). It reads and writes your local files and handles multi-step jobs on its own.

The plain way to think about it: roughly 80 to 90 percent of Claude Code's power, minus the CLI / Terminal. You point it at a task and it goes.

For most people who want an agent doing real work on their machine but don't want to live in a command line, this is the on-ramp. Once you outgrow it, Claude Code is waiting.

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