Overview
- Anthropic announced Monday that Claude can operate a user’s Mac to complete tasks by pointing, clicking, typing, and navigating apps like a human.
- The capability is live as a research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code for Pro and Max subscribers on macOS, with Windows support planned.
- Dispatch lets users send a task from their phone to a paired Mac so Claude can finish it unattended, as shown in a demo exporting a pitch deck to PDF and attaching it to a calendar invite.
- Claude first uses built‑in connectors for tools like Google Workspace and Slack, then falls back to on‑screen control, and it requires approval before accessing any new app.
- Anthropic built permission prompts, an app blocklist, and prompt‑injection scanning, and it warns users to avoid sensitive apps during this early stage as the company joins the agent race led by OpenClaw, Nvidia’s NemoClaw, and efforts at OpenAI.