Use Claude Cowork on Team and Enterprise plans (original) (raw)

This article explains important limitations and considerations for Team and Enterprise organizations using Claude Cowork.

Availability

Claude Cowork is available for paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) on:

Admin controls

Claude Cowork is on by default, but organization owners can manually disable it.

How to enable or disable Cowork:

Plugins

Plugins are included with Cowork and controlled by the same admin toggle—there's no separate setting to manage plugin access within Cowork.

Projects

Projects in Cowork let users organize tasks into dedicated workspaces with their own files, links, instructions, and memory. Projects are available to all Cowork users. There are no separate admin controls for projects, so owners cannot restrict project creation at the organization level at this time.

Project data (tasks and memory) is stored locally on each user's computer, consistent with how other Cowork data is handled. For full details, see Organize your tasks with projects in Cowork.

Manage plugins for your organization

Owners can create plugin marketplaces to distribute curated plugins across their organization. This gives you control over which plugins your team members see and use in Cowork.

On Enterprise plans, admins can also override these preferences for specific groups—for example, auto-installing a plugin for one team while hiding it from everyone else. For details, see Manage Cowork plugins for your organization.

Company branding

Cowork now surfaces your organization's branding, including a redesigned home screen tailored to your team. Team and Enterprise owners can configure branding within Organization settings.

Compliance and monitoring

Team and Enterprise owners can stream Cowork events to your SIEM and observability tools through OpenTelemetry. This gives security teams visibility into tool calls, file access, human approval decisions, and more—though it doesn't replace audit logging for compliance purposes. For setup, supported events, and security considerations, see Monitor Cowork activity with OpenTelemetry.

You can also refer to Monitoring in our Claude Docs for more information.

Cowork activity is not captured in the Compliance API at this time.

Local conversation storage

Cowork stores conversation history locally on users' computers. This data is not subject to Anthropic's standard data retention policies and cannot be centrally managed or exported by admins.

Access controls

The Cowork toggle is organization-wide—either all members have access or none do. On Enterprise plans, admins who need per-team control can use groups and custom roles to selectively enable Cowork for specific users or teams. Team plans don't have access to these controls, so Cowork remains all-or-nothing.

Within Cowork, admins have more granular control over plugins. You can set per-plugin installation preferences to control which plugins are auto-installed, available for self-service, or hidden from your organization's catalog. On Enterprise plans, these preferences can also be customized per group. See Manage plugins for your organization for details.

Security considerations

Prompt injection risks

Cowork has unique risks due to its agentic nature and internet access. While we've implemented safety measures including model training and content classifiers, the risk of prompt injection attacks is non-zero.

Users should:

Network access

Cowork respects your organization's current network egress permissions. Review your network access settings in Organization settings > Capabilities under Code execution before enabling Cowork.

Network settings are applied when a new Cowork session is created. If you change the network access mode or add domains to the allowlist while a conversation is already active, those changes will not take effect in that session. Start a new conversation for the updated settings to apply.

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