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Projects allow you to create self-contained workspaces with their own chat histories and knowledge bases. Within each project, you can upload documents, provide context, and have focused chats with Claude.

Project Knowledge

A key benefit of projects is the ability to provide context for your chats with Claude. You can upload relevant documents, text, code, or other files to a project's knowledge base, which Claude will use to better understand the context and background for your individual chats within that project.

In addition, you can define project instructions for each project to further tailor Claude's responses. For example, instructing Claude to use a more formal tone or answer questions from the perspective of a specific role or industry.

Enhanced project knowledge with RAG

When using a paid plan, your projects automatically scale to handle large amounts of content through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). When your project knowledge approaches context limits, Claude seamlessly enables RAG mode to expand capacity by up to 10x while maintaining response quality.

Collaboration and Sharing (Team and Enterprise plans only)

For users on Claude for Work (Team and Enterprise) plans, projects can be shared with other members of your organization, enabling powerful collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities. The sharing system includes:

Permission levels:

Sharing options:

Collaboration features:

Multiple members can contribute documents, create chats, and work together within the same project environment, making projects ideal for team collaboration.

For more information on private projects and visibility settings on Team and Enterprise plans, see Project visibility and sharing.

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