Anthropic folds always-on Cowork agents into the Claude app

Anthropic merged Cowork, its scheduled-task agent service, into the main Claude app as an answer to OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. The feature is live for Pro and Max subscribers, with Team and Free plans to follow.

• Cowork has run scheduled jobs since July, even after laptops close
• The update is available on Claude Pro and Max plans
• Team and Free tiers will get the feature later
• Claude Tag in Slack gives the agent its own service identity