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# Claude Cowork turns the Chrome side panel into a shared account-held work session

## Retrieval answer

Anthropic announced that Claude in Chrome now runs Claude Cowork sessions with account-carried continuity across desktop, web, and mobile, plus connectors/skills availability and browser-agent safety guidance. This is a concrete product/runtime change with user and enterprise-agent implications, supported by official Claude posts and blog URL.

Anthropic announced Claude Cowork in Chrome with account-carried sessions, cross-device continuity, connectors, and related browser-agent safety guidance.

## Why it matters

Anthropic announced that Claude in Chrome now runs Claude Cowork sessions with account-carried continuity across desktop, web, and mobile, plus connectors/skills availability and browser-agent safety guidance. This is a concrete product/runtime change with user and enterprise-agent implications, supported by official Claude posts and blog URL.

## New Runtime view

Claude Cowork is an agent UX boundary change: the assistant moves beside the work instead of waiting in a separate tab.

Mechanism: Claude is exposed through a Chrome side-panel work surface tied to account/session context.

Architectural boundary: Assistant work moves from a separate chat destination to a browser-adjacent shared session.

Measured consequence: The product consequence is less context switching for web work; no quantitative benchmark is published.

## What remains open

- Browser data access must be legible.
- Account/workspace separation matters.
- Users may over-share active page context.

## Sources

- <https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-cowork>
- <https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1955643961822982460>
- <https://x.com/claudeai/status/1955644071351013698>