Anthropic announced today that Claude Cowork is being merged with chat. This means Claude will drop from three to two modes: Claude Chat and Claude Code. The company says the change will roll out over the next few weeks for Pro and Max subscribers.

Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. The main view is adding or integrating new features as well: Claude Docs and Claude Slides are new today, and Claude Design now works inside conversations too. As for why the change is happening, Anthropic says: We built Cowork as a separate place for bigger work, and Design for visual work.

People used both, and told us the frustrating part was deciding where a task belonged. What they'd started in one also didn't carry into the other. So we stopped making you choose.

Claude can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, skills, and connectors you already have. This is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first, in the Claude app on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks to existing and new users on these plans. There's nothing to turn on.

Team and Free plans will follow soon, and Enterprise admins will hear from us at least 30 days before anything changes for their organizations.