Comment by felixrieseberg

Your terms for Claude Max point to the consumer ToS. This ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes. Why is this? Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use and then have terms that strictly forbid it.

I’ve been trying to reach a human at Anthropic for a week now to clarify this on behalf of our company but can’t get past your AI support.

Hi Felix!

Simple suggestion: logo should be a cow and and orc to match how I originally read the product name.

AI and Claude Code are incredible tools. But use cases like "Organize my desktop" are horrible misapplications that are insecure, inefficient and a privacy nightmare. Its the smart refrigerator of this generation of tech.

I worry that the average consumer is none the wiser but I hope a company that calls itself Anthropic is anthropic. Being transparent about what the tool is doing, what permissions it has, educating on the dangers etc. are the least you can do.

With the example of clearing up your mac desktop: a) macOS already autofolds things into smart stacks b) writing a simple script that emulates an app like Hazel is a far better approach for AI to take

Looks cool, and I'm guilty as charged of using CC for more than just code. However, as a Max subscriber since the moment it was a thing, I find it a bit disheartening to see development resources being poured into a product that isn't available on my platform. Have you considered adding first-class support for Linux? -- Or for that matter sponsoring one of the Linux repacks of Claude Desktop on Github? I would love to use this, but not if I need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it up and running.

Hi there, your training and inference rely on the openness of Linux. Would you consider giving something back with Claude for Linux?

What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?

@Felix - How are you thinking about observability? Anthropic is very clear that evals are critical for agentic processes (your engineering blog just covered this last week). For my whole company to roll out access to agents for all staff, I'd need some way for staff (or IT) to be able to know (a) how reliable the systems are (i.e., evals), (b) how safe the systems are (could be audit trails), and (c) how often the access being given to agents is the right amount of access.

This has been one of the biggest bottlenecks for our company: not the capability of the agents themselves -- the tools needed to roll them out responsibly.

Beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace” on the Cowork tab. Force quit and relaunch, and Claude reopens on the Cowork tab, again hanging with the beachball of death on “Starting Claude’s workspace”.

Deleting vm_bundles lets me open Claude Desktop and switch tabs. Then it hangs again, I delete vm_bundles again, and open it again. This time it opens on the Chat tab and I know not to click the Cowork tab...

You released it at just the right time for me. When I saw your announcement, I had two tasks that I was about to start working on: revising and expanding a project proposal in .docx format and adapting some slides (.pptx) from a past presentation for different audience.

I created a folder for Cowork, copied a couple of hundred files into it related to the two tasks, and told Claude to prepare a comprehensive summary in markdown format of that work (and some information about me) for its future reference.

The summary looked good, so I then described the two tasks to Claude and told it to start working.

Its project proposal revision was just about perfect. It took me only about 10 more minutes to polish it further and send it off.

The slides took more time to fix. The text content of some additional slides that Claude created was quite good and I ended up using most of it, but the formatting did not match the previous slides and I had to futz with it a while to make it consistent. Also, one slide it created used a screenshot it took using Chrome from a website I have built; the screenshot didn’t illustrate what it was supposed to very well, so I substituted a couple of different screenshots that I took myself. That job is now out the door, too.

I had not been looking forward to either of those two tasks, so it’s a relief to get them done more quickly than I had expected.

One initial problem: A few minutes into my first session with Claude in Cowork, after I had updated the app, it started throwing API errors and refusing to respond. I used the "Clear Cache and Restart" from the Troubleshooting menu and started over again from the start. Since then there have been no problems.

Hey, congrats on the launch. Been thinking lot about this space (wrote this back in August: https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-c...).

Would love to connect, my emails in my bio if you have time!

Hi Felix, this looks like an incredible tool. I've been helping non-tech people at my org make agent flows for things like data analysis—this is exactly what they need.

However, I don't see an option for AWS Bedrock API in the sign up form, is it planned to make this available to those using Bedrock API to access Claude models?

Being able to undo any changes that Cowork makes seems important. Any plans for automatic snapshots or an undo log?

Was looking forward to try it, but just processing a notion page and prepare an outline for a report breaks it: This is taking longer than usual...(14m 2s)

/e: stopped it and retried. it seems it can't use the connectors? I get No such tool available

I guess you need to know about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781

Question: I see that the “actions hints” in the demo show messaging people as an option.

Is this a planned usecase, for the user to hand over human communication in, say, slack or similar? What are the current capabilities and limitations for that?

Why do all similar demos show “prep the deck” use case as if everybody is building power point slides all day long?

Hey Felix, would love to give you feedback, but the language redirect of the website is trying to route me to de-de, and thus I can't see the page.

You might want to fix this.

Do you expect more token usage with it or will Anthropic change the limits of user token limit in the future?

Would love to see a Linux native application for this, after all a lot of folks are using it more and more these days.

Hullo! Congrats on shipping this, it looks great!

I'm very curious about what you mean by 'cross device sync' in the post?

Cheers Felix, congrats on the launch!

Congrats! I'll be working this out. It doesn't seem that you can connect to gmail currently through cowork right now. When will the connectors roll out for this? (Gmail works fine in chats currently).

Can you release custom GPTs like ChatGPT has?

Looks good so far - I hope Windows support follows soon!

Hi! Windows support when?

would like to be able to point at aws bedrock models like i can with claude code

The announcement says existing connectors work, but only Claude for chrome does.

hello Felix, that page is 404 here at the moment :(

Congrats Felix :)

Please give me access via api key

It's great and reassuring to know that, in this day and age, products still get made entirely by one individual.

> Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. > We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on > it.

> (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so > you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)