Claude Cowork 101

Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Chat is reactive you prompt, Claude answers. Claude Code is terminal-first, demands CLI comfort. Cowork splits the difference: agentic architecture (same as Code) in a GUI anyone can operate. Multi-step planning. File system access. Connectors to Gmail/Slack/Salesforce. Parallel execution. And crucially: the ability to complete work automatically through scheduled tasks, which isn’t possible in regular chats outside of Cowork. Cl