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Claude CoWork's New Upgrades: Mobile Access, Model Picks, and a Redesigned Design Tool

A screen-recorded walkthrough of Claude CoWork's move to mobile, its four-model lineup, and a rebuilt Claude Design tool — demoed end to end, including a live investment pitch deck build.

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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Claude CoWork's move to mobile, paired with a four-model lineup and a rebuilt design tool, turns Claude from a desktop chat window into an assistant that keeps working, asks for input, and delivers finished output wherever the user is.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…
  • You already use Claude CoWork or Claude Code and want to know what changed before setting up new automations.
  • You run recurring research, reporting, or content tasks and want them to keep running when your laptop is closed.
  • You're deciding which Claude model to default to for everyday work versus harder tasks.
  • You want a concrete example of an AI tool taking a plain-English prompt through clarifying questions to a finished, presentable deliverable.
SKIP IF…
  • You've never used Claude and want a from-scratch onboarding — this assumes an existing account and prior chat history.
  • You're looking for a technical explanation of how CoWork's scheduling or MCP integration works under the hood — this is a feature tour, not an architecture breakdown.
TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Claude CoWork now runs on mobile as well as desktop, and Anthropic folded the separate CoWork tab into a unified Home view alongside Code, with 2x usage available through August 5. The core shift argued here is that work now follows the user: tasks start at a desk, continue in the background with no device online, and only pause when Claude hits a decision only a human can make — at which point the person gets a phone notification instead of having to return to a laptop. The video demos personalizing CoWork's use with a blog post fed into a Sonnet 5 chat, an MCP-powered YouTube trend search, and a from-scratch investment pitch deck built in Claude Design's Fable 5 mode, complete with a short intake questionnaire before Claude does the research and design work unattended.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:0000:12

01 · Cold open

Claude CoWork gets mobile access; the host frames it as a major power upgrade.

00:1201:38

02 · Home and Code replace three tabs

CoWork folds into a unified Home screen; 2x usage runs through August 5; the host points to Anthropic's 'How people are using Claude Cowork' blog post.

01:3802:39

03 · Personalize CoWork from the blog post

Feeding the article plus memory into a Sonnet 5 chat produces a workflow-specific plan: what to set up, what to deprioritize, and next steps.

02:3903:28

04 · MCP-powered research demo

Using the vidIQ MCP server, Claude is asked to find trending YouTube topics for 'claude cowork', 'claude code', and 'claude ai'; Claude requests tool-use approval before running.

03:2804:54

05 · Which model to use

Model picker shows Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5; host recommends Sonnet 5 as the default and flags Fable 5's free window ending July 12.

04:5406:06

06 · CoWork updates arrive on mobile

Subscribe ask, then a mobile lock-screen notification example ('Your Acme brief is ready') showing CoWork status reaching the phone directly.

06:0606:57

07 · Three things change

Blog-post text on screen states the framework: your work follows you, work continues in the background, the decisions still come to you.

06:5707:19

08 · Working 24/7 with human approval gates

Host explains Claude can now message the phone when it needs a decision only a human can make, instead of pausing until a laptop is reopened.

07:1907:46

09 · Scheduling overnight tasks + mobile task list

A 'Hello, night owl' mockup shows the CoWork mobile task list: Ready for review, Needs input, and similar states.

07:4608:14

10 · Artifacts inside Claude Code

A gallery of shareable dashboards and documents generated inside Claude Code, each shareable via private link.

08:1409:02

11 · Claude Design gets rebuilt

New 'What will you design today?' start screen with Prototype/Slides/Document/Spreadsheet templates, the same four-model picker, and a guest-pass referral banner.

09:0210:29

12 · Building the Bull/Bear META vs MSFT deck

Host prompts Fable 5 to build an investment pitch deck; Design responds with a structured intake questionnaire (audience, length, numeric depth, position, structure, style, tone) before generating anything.

10:2911:38

13 · Deck reveal and wrap

Finished dark, bold-editorial title slide with live-looking META/MSFT price figures; host closes with a plug for a related video on Claude automating social posting.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • Claude folded its separate CoWork tab into a unified Home view, leaving Home and Code as the only two top-level destinations.
  • CoWork tasks now run with no device online — they no longer require a laptop to stay open to keep working.
  • When Claude hits a decision only a person can make, it pauses and sends a phone notification instead of stalling until the user returns to a computer.
  • The model lineup shown has four tiers: Fable 5 for the hardest problems, Opus 4.8 for complex tasks, Sonnet 5 for everyday efficiency, and Haiku 4.5 for the fastest, simplest answers.
  • Fable 5 was shown as free to use only through July 12, after which it switches to usage-based billing.
  • An in-app tooltip states Opus consumes usage limits faster than the other models.
  • Claude Design now opens with four starting templates — prototype, slides, document, and spreadsheet — instead of a blank canvas.
  • Before building a requested deck, Claude Design asks a structured set of questions — audience, length, numeric depth, position, structure, visual style, and tone — rather than generating from a single vague prompt.
  • A CoWork research task can be handed a specific external tool (in this demo, the vidIQ MCP server) and asked to pull live trending-topic data rather than relying on the model's training data alone.
  • Claude Design's guest passes give a user usage credit for referring someone else to sign up and try Claude.
Takeaway

Four models, one questionnaire, background-first automation

WHAT TO LEARN

The lesson isn't about Claude specifically — mature AI tools are shifting from one-shot chat answers toward asking clarifying questions up front, then finishing work unattended.

02Home and Code replace three tabs
  • A tool that used to require an open laptop to keep running is only useful for background work once it can run with no device online.
03Personalize CoWork from the blog post
  • Feeding a tool your full context (memory, prior chats) before asking it to plan a workflow produces a more specific answer than asking cold.
  • Asking 'how should I use this, given everything you know about me' turns a generic feature announcement into a personalized action plan.
04MCP-powered research demo
  • Handing an assistant a specific outside data source to query gets more reliable, current answers than relying on its built-in knowledge alone.
05Which model to use
  • Defaulting to the cheapest model that's good enough for routine tasks, and reserving the most expensive model for genuinely hard problems, is the practical way to manage usage limits.
  • Free access windows on premium tools are worth front-loading real work into before they convert to usage-based billing.
08Three things change
  • The shift worth copying for any automated workflow: the work follows the person, it continues without supervision, but any decision only a human can make still gets routed back to them.
  • A notification-based approval step, rather than requiring someone to return to a desk, is what actually makes round-the-clock automation usable instead of just theoretical.
12Building the Bull/Bear META vs MSFT deck
  • Asking a short structured set of questions (audience, length, tone, structure) before generating a deliverable produces a more usable first draft than generating from a single vague prompt.
  • Letting a tool 'decide for me' on subjective calls like visual style or chart usage is a reasonable trade when speed matters more than control over every detail.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Claude CoWork
Anthropic's agentic task-runner inside Claude that works on a job in the background, across sessions, and now across mobile and desktop, rather than requiring a live back-and-forth chat.
MCP server
A Model Context Protocol server — a plug-in style connector that gives an AI assistant live access to an outside tool or data source, such as a YouTube analytics service, instead of only its own training knowledge.
Claude Design
A Claude tool for generating visual deliverables — slide decks, documents, prototypes, and spreadsheets — from a plain-language brief plus a short clarifying questionnaire.
Artifacts
Shareable, interactive outputs, such as a live dashboard or webpage, that Claude can generate and a user can send to teammates as a private link.
Resources

Things they pointed at.

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:00
Claude Cowork just got a bunch of brand new upgrades that make it a 100 times more powerful
cold-open hyperbole hook, no setup neededTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
04:51
For the next four days, you are trying to get as much work done as humanly possible with Fable five because what you could do with this tool is insane.
urgency plus a concrete deadlineIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
06:06
Now, you're going to get that notification on your phone if you're logged in to Claude on your phone. So, basically, you can now work twenty four seven.
clean one-line statement of the core benefitnewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
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00:00Claude Cowork just got a bunch of brand new upgrades that make it a 100 times more powerful because now you could access it directly from your mobile device. They completely changed how it shows up on your computer, and they just made it way more useful. Update number one that we need to discuss is now Cloud Cowork is coming to both mobile and web.
00:17So you're now going to be able to access this from your phone, and you're going to see that this looks completely differently now. So when we load up Cloud, you're going to see that we have home and we have code. In the past, you had home, you had co work, you had code.
00:29Now this actually shows up directly down here, which is, I think, just a way better experience. Because if we come over to co work now, we could see that we could do several different things. First and foremost, we could see that we have two x usage until August 5.
00:42I would strongly suggest that you take advantage of this right now because if you wanna be able to automate things, Cowork is going to be the best way to do it. In fact, if we come over to chat right here, we're going to see that this is going to change everything that we see. And once we come over here, we could choose to work from inside of specific projects.
00:57We could choose for this to manually approve each action or skip approvals. I would strongly suggest you have skip approvals on if you wanna be able to automate things, and we could see that they actually have ideas and ideal things for you. But before you click on one of these, what I want you to do is Claude actually linked out to this new blog post.
01:15So they created this blog post, which is how people are using called co work right here, and it goes through a bunch of different ways that people are actually using this. And what I would suggest that you do is I'm gonna put the link to this in the pinned comment or rather not in the pinned comment, but in the description of this video.
01:30I would strongly suggest that you come over here. You grab this just like this, and you come over into a chat inside of Claude, and you say, on everything that you know about me, how should I be using co work based on this article?
01:47And then this will actually go through and give you some information. Now if we come over here, I would change this to SONNET five. We'll talk more about that in just a minute.
01:54Now what this is going to do is take everything that is actually inside of this article right here, and it's going to take it into consideration with your memory to give you a better response. So we could see that given the article's finding, co work usage increased and actually shows this right here. So where co work actually fits my workflow goes through the exact things that I should set up right here, goes through what I would deprioritize, what the bottom line is, and we could also have this go through, and we can get this to then give us exact prompts that we should use.
02:23But one way that I really like to use co work is if we come over here into new chat, come over into co work. I like to personally use this with the MCPs that I have set up. So I've skipped all approvals on right here.
02:34We could see I'm gonna click yes continue and I'm gonna say using the vidIQ MCP server, can you go through, find me what content is trending on YouTube for cod co work, cod code, and cod AI.
02:52Now what this is going to do is this is now going to go through. This is going to use us, and this is actually going to go through and complete this for me, which is incredible. But what makes this even more powerful is now I could actually access this from my phone.
03:05I could initiate this from my phone. And then in addition to that, the other thing that I could also do here is I could schedule this out as a task, and this is the perfect type of thing for co work to actually go through and do because we can actually get this to put the files on my computer and do things like that, which makes this incredibly powerful and just a way better way for me to be able to do things.
03:25Because in the past, I would have had to do this manually, or I would have had to try to do this inside of a chat or something. But look at how quickly co work actually goes through and finds this right here.
03:36So it goes through all these different things, gives us a bunch of different data and information right here. And since Claude knows how I script out my videos, this could actually go through and this could write a script for me if I wanted to, and I could have made this prompt a little bit better where I had it pick what the topic is, write the script, and do all of that.
03:54Now another thing that I did wanna call out here before I show you how COD actually works on a mobile device is we're going to see several different models right here. We're now going to see SONNET five, and we're gonna see Fable five. I would strongly suggest that you're only using two of these models that are showing up right now.
04:09If you're doing something quick, you're doing something coding, you're doing something agentic, but you don't think that you need the absolute full power of Claude, I would use Sonnet five right here. They made this incredible. In fact, it's just about as good as Opus 4.8, except it's quicker.
04:25It's not going to consume your usage limits as quickly. And if you're using the API, it's actually incredibly affordable and incredibly cheap. In addition to that, they have Fable five right here.
04:35Fable five is going to be available only until July 12. And then after that, you actually have to go through and you're gonna have to pay by usage. So I would strongly suggest that for the next four days, you are trying to get as much work done as humanly possible with Fable five because what you could do with this tool is insane.
04:54And before I get into the rest of the updates that Claudius recently launched, I wanted to make sure that you smash that subscribe button if you wanna stay up to date on the latest and greatest changes in AI. I upload videos like this almost every single day, and you're not gonna wanna miss them. Now the next thing that we do need to highlight here is now we could see that from a mobile device, you are going to be able to get all of your different updates from CoWork.
05:13So if you have CoWork automating tasks, you used to have to go to your computer in order to see what it's actually done and when it's done to things, but now you don't. Because if you have the latest mobile version, you could actually it updates directly on your device. You could see that this will literally open up a chat right here and literally give you everything that you would find on your computer now on your phone.
05:32In addition to that, your work is going to follow you wherever you are. We could see right here that your work now follows you. So you could start a task at your desk.
05:40You could check on it from your phone, and you could pick up the finished output from anywhere, from your phone, from your computer, doesn't matter. In addition to that, your work is going to continue in the background. So now when you close your laptop and you head into your meeting, cloud keeps going.
05:53You'll be able to schedule tasks now with no device online, and you'll be able to actually get the work without having a device online. In the past, you needed to do that. You need to have your computer open, but now you don't.
06:04In addition to that, the decisions still come to you. So when Claude reaches a call that only you can make, it is going to ask you, and it can actually ask you from your phone.
06:13So one thing that I really used to hate in the past is, let's say that Claude was asking me for permission on something, it would pause, and then I'd have to come back to my computer in order to get that thing done. But that is not the case anymore because guess what? Now, you're going to get that notification on your phone if you're logged in to Claude on your phone.
06:31So, basically, you can now work twenty four seven. You can automate work twenty four seven, and you can have Claude competing work for you 247. Because as we could see right here, it is going to be able to follow you, and this is exactly what this is gonna look like.
06:44When you come into Cowork on your phone right here, you're gonna be able to see all. You're gonna be able to see what's ready for review. You're gonna be able to see what actually needs input.
06:50And this makes life way easier because, again, the work does not stop now. You have Claude working 247, and one thing that I would strongly suggest that you now do is begin to schedule out a bunch of tasks for when you're not working.
07:03Let's say that you work from nine to five, you should be scheduling out tasks like getting briefs, finding things, doing work for you from your phone at any time, and you could get that to happen all throughout the night without you needing anything. So now when you wake up in the morning, what you actually see is what's what you're ready for review, what needs input, and you could do that while you're walking the dog or making your coffee.
07:25In addition to that, the other thing that I did wanna call out is you're now going to see artifacts inside of code right here. So you're going to actually be able to create dashboards, live previews, and you'll be able to share a private link with your entire team.
07:39For example, I have this one right here that we can now see, and you'll be able to access these things inside of Cloud Code, or you could access them from regular Cloud right here. In addition to that, if we come over to design right here, Cloud has completely updated what this design experience now looks like.
07:56In addition to that, you could see that this gives you three guest passes when you come over here, which is pretty cool because you could get usage credits for helping people actually sign up and begin to use Claude. And what we could see right here is that we could get this to build several different things. We could get this to build prototypes for websites.
08:11We could get this to build PowerPoints. In fact, this is the best way to build PowerPoints. We could get this to create documents, to create wireframes, to create animations.
08:19We can also see right here that we could actually choose what model we want to use. For example, call it fable five, come over here and click on slides. What I'm gonna ask this to do is I'm gonna ask this to create a pitch deck for why somebody should buy Microsoft or Metastock.
08:34And again, this is not financial advice. I just wanna show you how this looks when you use Fable five to blow your mind. So I'm gonna use this prompt right here, create a pitch deck that walks people through the bull and bear case for investing in Meta and Microsoft stock right now at their current price.
08:48And this is now going to go through, and this is going to do all of the research that needs to be done. It's going to actually create everything. It's going to design everything.
08:56And the output that we're going to get here is probably going to blow your mind because this is way better than what you would get from Gemini, what you would get from Chad GPT, what you would get from everything else. So this asks us a few questions right here.
09:08How long the presentation should be? I'm gonna choose three minutes. Who this is actually for?
09:12I'm gonna do investment club or friends. How deep are the numbers? I'm gonna say go heavy.
09:17Should the deck take a position? I'm gonna say end with a verdict slash recommendation. Preferred structure, I'm gonna choose this right here.
09:24Visual style, I'm gonna go through clear minimal light background. Actually, I'm gonna do bold editorial. Include charts, I'm gonna say decide for me.
09:33Tone of the copy, I'm gonna say decide for me. Anything else to include? Nope.
09:37We're gonna click on continue. This is now going to go off. This is going to do all the research.
09:41It's going to take all the design elements that I gave it right here and all of this into consideration, and this is going to do all the work that needs to be done in order to create this presentation. Now when it's done, we'll be able to edit it. We'll be able to change it.
09:53We'll be able to adjust it. We'll be able to adapt it. And we can actually go through and edit this however we want.
09:59But the main thing I wanna take away here is just how incredible this is gonna look and that it did all the research for us. Oh, and by the way, so that you could actually see what this looks like, we could see right here what this actually looks like on my mobile device when Claude now has a question or wants me to do something.
10:17Let me just put in my password right here. We could see Claude needs your input right here. It's now actually notifying me on my phone, so I could tell it that.
10:26And it will go through and complete whatever it's doing on Cowork automatically then. And if you wanna see what design is actually working on and doing right here, we could actually see this by just opening this up right here.
10:35And now we could see that this is actually getting to work right here, laying everything out because it's done all of the research. And look at this. My hands are up here.
10:43This is going through creating this absolutely incredible presentation. Okay.
10:48So this is almost done, but I wanna show you exactly what this looks like right here because, again, this looks absolutely incredible. We could tweak anything. We could annotate anything.
10:55We could share this with anybody or I'm gonna show you what this looks like on full screen right here. This looks absolutely incredible. This is probably the best PowerPoint presentation that I have ever seen AI create right here.
11:07This did all the research and did all of this in minutes using Fable. And, again, this is what makes this so powerful right here. And look, my hands are up here.
11:16This is going through and working. Absolutely insane that it could do this. Now if you enjoyed this video and you wanna learn about another Cloud update that's completely changed how people are creating social media content, I would strongly suggest you check out this video right here because now Cloud can actually automate all of your content and schedule it for you on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and so many more platforms.
11:35That sounds interesting. I'll see you over there.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Claude CoWork just left the laptop. This walkthrough covers the mobile rollout, the four-model lineup replacing the old single default, and a rebuilt Design tool — demoed live, ending with an unattended investment pitch deck built start to finish.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

06:06list

Three things change

  1. Your work follows you
  2. Work continues in the background
  3. The decisions still come to you

Anthropic's stated framing (shown as on-screen blog text) for what CoWork's mobile release changes: tasks can be started at a desk and picked up from a phone, they keep running unattended, and only genuinely human decisions get routed back for approval via notification.

Steal forFraming any 'AI now runs unattended' feature announcement or internal automation pitch.
CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK
11:10next-video
if you enjoyed this video and you wanna learn about another Cloud update that's completely changed how people are creating social media content, I would strongly suggest you check out this video right here

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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
Storyboard

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cold open
hookcold open00:00
model picker appears
valuemodel picker appears01:22
Sonnet vs Fable guidance
valueSonnet vs Fable guidance04:10
work follows you framework
valuework follows you framework05:44
finished pitch deck
ctafinished pitch deck10:56
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