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Anthropic Moves Cowork's Agent Sandbox From Local VM to the Cloud

Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg described a Cowork architecture change: the execution VM, previously shipped to the user's machine, now runs entirely in the cloud alongside model inference. Sessions get isolated sandboxes, the desktop app handles only local file-access calls, and work continues after closing the laptop or switching to a phone.

What changes for operators — For a 10-200 person company running agentic tasks through Cowork — drafting outreach, triaging tickets, compiling reports — this removes the disk, battery and performance tax that came with running a local VM, and it means a long agent job started on a desk can be checked or continued from a phone without losing state. Teams piloting Cowork for operations work should expect fewer interruptions from closing a laptop mid-task, but should also confirm how the new cloud-only sandbox handles the files and credentials it previously pulled from the local machine.

Anthropic Folds Claude Cowork Into Claude, Adds Background Task Handoff

For a 10-200 person company already using Claude to draft reports, summarize tickets or prep sales materials, the practical change is fewer product surfaces to manage internally: no more deciding whether a task goes to Cowork or to chat. If the persistence claim holds up in practice, a team member could hand off a longer research or drafting task at the end of the day and pick up the result the next morning without babysitting a session, which matters for ops and support workflows that run outside standard hours. The catch is that this is a Pro/Max rollout over unspecified weeks, so teams on other plans or in early rollout windows should not plan workflows around it yet, and the actual feature boundaries are still unclear even to close observers.