Claude Cowork

Running on Claude Opus 4.7 with a 1M context window, Cowork operates as a desktop agent that plans multi-step tasks, takes screenshots to read your actual screen, and controls mouse, keyboard, and shell commands to execute work inside an isolated VM. It handles file organization, bulk renaming, PDF data extraction, and expense tracking without needing a human to babysit each step — the vendor states it includes self-verification logic that checks its own output before reporting back. The ceiling appears when tasks require judgment calls outside a defined scope: the agent surfaces ambiguity rather than resolving it, which means complex editorial or legal review work still needs you at the keyboard. No self-hosting option exists, so teams with strict data-residency requirements are stopped before they start.