{"id":609,"date":"2026-01-13T05:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork-anthropics-general-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:26:33","slug":"first-impressions-of-claude-cowork-anthropics-general-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork-anthropics-general-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic\u2019s general agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The interface for Cowork is a new tab in the Claude desktop app, called Cowork. It sits next to the existing Chat and Code tabs.<\/p>\n<p>It looks very similar to the desktop interface for regular Claude Code. You start with a prompt, optionally attaching a folder of files. It then starts work.<\/p>\n<p>I tried it out against my perpetually growing \u201cblog-drafts\u201d folder with the following prompt:<\/p>\n<p>Look at my drafts that were started within the last three months and then check that I didn\u2019t publish them on simonwillison.net using a search against content on that site and then suggest the ones that are most close to being ready<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/12\/claude-cowork\/\">simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/12\/claude-cowork\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interface for Cowork is a new tab in the Claude desktop app, called Cowork. It sits next to the existing Chat and Code tabs. It looks very similar to the desktop interface for regular Claude Code. You start with a prompt, optionally attaching a folder of files. It then starts work. I tried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,5,72,24],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-agents","tag-ai","tag-claude","tag-computing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}