Anthropic Unifies Claude Chat and Cowork, Adds Docs and Slides

Anthropic is bringing Claude chat and Cowork into one interface while adding Claude Docs and Claude Slides. The update puts conversations, agentic tasks and document and presentation creation inside a single Claude experience.

Anthropic said the rollout will start with existing and new Pro and Max subscribers across its web, desktop and mobile apps over the coming weeks. Team and Free plans will follow. Docs, Slides and Claude Design are in beta on paid plans, while Enterprise administrators decide whether the tools are enabled.

One starting point for chat and agentic work

With the unified interface, users can start in any conversation instead of choosing between chat and Cowork. Anthropic says Claude will determine what a request needs and make Cowork and Design capabilities available with the conversation’s existing context, skills and connectors.

Anthropic says existing Cowork users will keep their chats, projects, artifacts, connectors and skills during the transition. By default, Claude asks for permission before taking an action. Users can also choose a mode that lets it continue and check in only when closer review is needed. Anthropic has separately changed permission handling in its coding tool, as detailed in DataPhoenix’s coverage of Claude Code’s default auto mode.

Documents and presentations stay in the conversation

Anthropic describes Docs and Slides as native creation surfaces inside Claude conversations. In the company’s example, a report and a presentation come from the same conversation, so the deck can reflect the document without moving the work into a separate product surface. That setup expands Claude’s role from answering prompts to producing two common workplace outputs within the same interface.

The company says Claude Slides can draft presentations for users to edit directly, present from Claude, or download as PowerPoint or PDF files. Enterprise administrators will receive at least 30 days’ notice before the unified experience changes for their organizations.