Claude Updates & Release Notes

A new way to reflect with Claude

Your monthly recap is a new feature at Settings > Reflect that shows you the topics you spent time on, your most active day and peak hour, and observations about how you work with Claude. It's in beta on Free, Pro, and Max plans on the web and Claude Desktop, and requires memory to be on. Alongside it, Settings > Time and focus lets you set optional break reminders and quiet hours. For more information, refer to See your monthly recap and Set break reminders and quiet hours.

Write tools for the Microsoft 365 connector

The Microsoft 365 connector now goes beyond search. With write tools enabled, Claude can draft, send, and organize email, manage calendar events, update mailbox settings, and create and update files in OneDrive and SharePoint. Read and search tools work as before, and Teams remains read-only. Before members can use write tools, a Microsoft Entra administrator needs to consent to the updated permission set and an admin needs to enable them for the organization. For more information, see Set up the Microsoft 365 connector and Connect to Microsoft 365.

Claude Cowork on web and mobile

Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile in addition to desktop. We are rolling this capability out over the next several weeks starting with the Max plan, with more plans to follow. Cowork runs your sessions remotely (in beta), so your sessions and files are saved to your Claude account and go where you go, on any device. Work continues when you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online. Chat and Cowork also share one home now, with one place for your projects and artifacts across both. For more information, see Use Claude Cowork on web, desktop, and mobile.

Write tools for the Microsoft 365 connector

The Microsoft 365 connector now goes beyond search. With write tools enabled, Claude can draft, send, and organize email, manage calendar events, update mailbox settings, and create and update files in OneDrive and SharePoint. Read and search tools work as before, and Teams remains read-only. Before members can use write tools, a Microsoft Entra administrator needs to consent to the updated permission set and an admin needs to enable them for the organization. For more information, see Set up the Microsoft 365 connector and Connect to Microsoft 365.

Claude Code and Claude Cowork are now available in public beta in Claude for Government Desktop, built on the same application our commercial customers use and delivered through a FedRAMP High authorized environment.

With Claude Code, public sector teams can build and modernize the software systems that underpin public services. Claude Cowork works directly with files on the desktop, allowing agency staff to delegate memo creation, RFP reviews, casework, and decks to Claude.

The expanded experience also comes with additional governance capabilities. Administrators can set configuration defaults as well as allocate and control spending across departments. Security teams and authorizing officials get tamper-evident audit logs and documentation that supports the agency ATO process.

Today’s launch makes it easier for agencies to acquire, authorize, and allocate AI in pursuit of their missions.

What's new

Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Agencies get new capabilities on the same cadence as our commercial users. Conversation history is stored locally on the agency-managed device. Inference runs inside a FedRAMP High authorized environment.

Billing that fits appropriations. Program offices can tie AI spend to appropriated funds with standard seats or they can define their own seat tiers with spend and model limits, and usage is purchased in fixed increments with a hard not-to-exceed cap. Administrators can track usage per user and per model in the admin console, and automatic burndown alerts warn them before the balance runs low.

Administration that matches how departments are organized. Department-level administrators can allocate seats and prepaid usage to sub-agencies while allowing each to manage its own users. Administrators can use SCIM group mappings to set rate limits, dollar caps, and allowed models for specific seat tiers. Additionally, layered configuration sets defaults for sub-agencies including what Claude can connect to, which features are available, and instructions that guide how Claude interacts with users.

Oversight by design. Every administrative action is recorded in a hash-chained audit log that organization administrators can review directly in the product. Sensitive operations on Anthropic's side require two-person approval. Usage exports are metering data only so agencies can answer ATO and IG requests without moving sensitive material.

Security and oversight

For security teams evaluating the desktop deployment, we're publishing our FedRAMP Secure Configuration Guide as a public-facing document that customers can use to configure their Claude for Government product in a secure manner.

In addition, FedRAMP requires us to provide our formal change notification, which contains details associated with this change.

Lastly, a penetration-test summary is available for the new desktop client, and subsequent follow up penetration-tests summaries will be provided once available. The change notification and pentest summary are available under NDA through Anthropic’s trust center. The application deploys through standard agency MDM platforms.

Getting started

Claude for Government is available in beta starting today. Anthropic remains the contracted and billing party—agencies don't need a separate cloud-provider relationship to get started.

New customers can request access at claude.com/solutions/government.

Security teams can download the penetration-test artifact through the following link.

Claude Cowork is rolling out to mobile and web so your sessions and files go where you go, on any device.

Beta access is rolling out over the next several weeks starting with Max users, with more plans to follow.

Claude Cowork: coming to mobile and web

The work around the work

Cowork is where you hand Claude a task, and it works across your files, calendar, email, messaging app, the web, and the other tools you connect until the job is done.

AI agents made their name writing code. But when we looked at how people use Claude Cowork, more than 90% of it wasn’t software development. Most of it was everyday knowledge work, and the largest categories were business operations and content creation: reconciling the quarter’s spend and drafting the variance memo, turning a folder of contracts into a renewals tracker with the risks flagged, building tomorrow’s client deck from call transcripts and pipeline data. Together, that’s roughly half of all usage. It's the work around the work: rarely in anyone’s job description, but a large share of everyone’s week.

What changes today

Everyone asks AI for answers. Handing it the work is different, and people keep giving Claude bigger jobs. Work like that doesn’t fit in one sitting. It accumulates overnight, between meetings, on the train. Until today, Cowork lived on your laptop, so the work stopped when you stepped away. Now it doesn’t. Three things change:

Your work follows you. Start a task at your desk, check on it from your phone, and pick up the finished output anywhere.

Work continues in the background. Close the laptop and head to your meeting; Claude keeps going. Scheduled tasks now run with no device online. Set Monday’s client prep for 6 am: Claude works through the email threads, transcripts, and recent news, builds the briefing doc, and leaves the follow-up email drafted but unsent. Review it over coffee.

The decisions still come to you. When Claude reaches a call only you can make, it asks, and the question reaches your phone. You can redirect a draft mid-meeting and Claude keeps going, on the right path. Nothing ships until you’ve reviewed and approved it.

"I built a dashboard to track my clients while traveling. I started on my laptop and picked the session up on my phone while waiting for my bag to come out. It just held the thread."

• Armmand Hosseini, Customer Success, Ramp

Desktop remains the place for deep work, and it’s the full Cowork experience, where Claude can also use your local files and browser. Users who couldn’t install a desktop app can now use Cowork too.

Two more changes you'll notice: on web and desktop, chat and Cowork now share one home, and your projects and artifacts live together across both. Delegating is now as easy as asking.

Getting started

On the web, start a Cowork session from the home screen at claude.ai. On mobile, open Cowork from the sidebar of the Claude app for iOS and Android. For the full experience, download the Claude desktop app. For what’s available on each surface, see the Help Center.

Start with something already on your plate: point Claude at the folder, the thread, or the half-finished deck, and describe what done looks like. To mark the launch, we’re extending doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5, so there’s plenty of room to try bigger tasks.

We’re introducing richer admin analytics, model-level entitlements, and spend alerts for Claude Enterprise. As Claude takes on increasingly difficult and complex agentic work across the organization, usage and cost patterns look different from a standard chat tool. These controls give admins the visibility to understand how Claude is being used and the tools to manage costs.

Today's additions build on controls Anthropic already provides: spend caps at every level, access and model routing, a usage analytics dashboard with exports and an Analytics API, and effort controls. Richer analytics and more granular cost controls are the newest additions to a control surface we've been building on for months.

Track adoption and cost

The analytics dashboard for admins now shows usage and cost by group and by user, with output like artifacts created, files edited, skills and connectors used displayed directly next to their cost. Admins can filter by the SCIM groups their IT team already manages, so the breakdown follows their existing org chart.

Claude Code gets richer insights with two new tabs focused on value and usage inside the admin console. Usage shows active developers, session counts, and top commands across the org, and is updated daily. The value tab summarizes usage and cost data to help admins understand value of Claude Code at a glance, estimating productivity lift, cost per commit, and annual value. Every formula is visible in the tab, and the inputs are adjustable.

Analytics chat can now answer a much broader set of questions and produce richer artifacts that you can dive deeper into. Admins can ask questions in plain language — "Which teams doubled their Claude usage this month?" or "Where are we getting the most value per seat?" — and Claude returns charts that can be exported and shared with stakeholders.

Usage and cost data is available programmatically through the Analytics API, so finance and IT can bring Claude usage and cost data into the tools they already run — like Datadog Cloud Cost Management and CloudZero — and see it alongside the rest of their cloud and AI spend. Results can be filtered by date range, team, product, or model. Skills report their own usage and cost, and new endpoints track plugin adoption and artifact creation.

Admins can extend usage visibility to individual users — cost, product and model breakdowns, and progress against spend limits — so no one hits a surprise cutoff. Users can also see their own usage trends over time, including which products, models, and skills they rely on most, and how that activity adds up in spend.

Controls for managing spend

Model defaults and entitlements let admins set which Claude model new conversations start with across chat, Cowork, and Claude Code so routine work doesn't necessarily default to the most expensive option. Admins control which models are available to specific roles or across the entire organization.

Spend-threshold alerts notify admins at 75% and 90% of an org-level spend limit, giving them time to raise the cap before anyone gets blocked mid-task. Users receive in-app notifications at 75% and 95% thresholds and can request a limit increase directly from their admin without leaving Claude.

For organizations managing limits across many groups, the Admin API moves cost-control workflows into scripts so controls scale with the org. Automate increase-request reviews, identify members close to their spend limit, and flag rapidly changing usage all at scale.

Getting started

For admins managing Claude across their organization: explore usage and cost breakdowns in the admin console, set model defaults and spend limits by group, and configure spend-threshold alerts to stay ahead of overages. Usage data is available in the admin dashboard, and the Analytics API lets finance and IT pull the same metrics into existing reporting systems, learn more here.

Deploying the gateway

Today, we're introducing the Claude apps gateway for Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud. Previously, running Claude Code on these platforms has meant provisioning a cloud credential per developer, manually pushing settings to every laptop, and standing up separate tooling to see per-developer spend. The gateway is a self-hosted control plane that gives you corporate SSO login, centrally enforced policy, role-based access, and per-user cost attribution for Claude Code.

The gateway is run as a single stateless container deployed on Linux and backed by a PostgreSQL database. It holds your upstream credential, authenticates developers against your identity provider, distributes and enforces managed settings, and reports per-user usage to a collector you operate. Onboarding a developer means adding them to your Identity Provider (IdP). Offboarding means removing them.

The gateway is built and shipped by Anthropic inside the same claude binary your developers already install, so you can run it in one stateless container on your infrastructure. Because the gateway and the client are built together, the /login flow is gateway-aware, the client applies managed settings automatically at sign-in, and policy is enforced consistently on every request.

How the gateway works

The gateway handles:

• Identity. It acts as an OpenID Connect (OIDC) relying party against Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or any standards-compliant OIDC provider, and issues a short-lived session. No long-lived secrets sit on developer machines.
• Policy. You can define managed settings once on the server, and clients receive the policy at sign-in and the gateway enforces it on every request. You can adjust allowed models and default settings centrally.
• Telemetry. The client stamps a usage metric for every request, and the gateway relays it over OTLP to a collector you configure, in your network and on your retention schedule.
• Routing. The gateway holds your upstream credential and routes inference to the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Cloud, with optional failover between providers.
• Spend caps. The gateway allows you to set daily, weekly, and monthly spend limits. Limits can be applied per organization, group, or user.

The gateway does not send inference traffic or usage data to Anthropic unless you configure it to use the Claude API. We're also publishing the protocol the gateway uses, so other gateway developers can implement the same features.

Getting started

The gateway is available now. To get started:

• Deploy the gateway: Download the Claude Code CLI binary, point gateway.yaml at your OIDC issuer and upstream credential, and register one OIDC app in your IdP.
• Roll it out: Configure the forceLoginMethod and forceLoginGatewayUrl parameters in managed-settings.json on client machines. Clients connect to your gateway on first boot.

See the documentation to learn more.

Starting today, Claude models are generally available in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure.

Claude runs in your Azure environment with the authentication, billing, and governance controls your teams already use. You can choose where inference is processed, including a US data zone for teams with data residency requirements. Anthropic operates the inference and is the data processor.

“At NVIDIA, we use autonomous AI agents every day to help our teams move faster and think bigger. Claude models bring strong reasoning, coding and enterprise capabilities that are valuable for complex technical work. With Claude now available in Microsoft Foundry running on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, more organizations can run advanced, specialized AI agents with the performance, scale and security needed for production.”
Justin Boitano, VP and GM Enterprise Computing

"Running Claude models on Azure has given us the sustained throughput and reliability our enterprise customers expect. The combination of frontier model quality and enterprise-grade infrastructure is what makes Bolt viable for the Fortune 500."
Gary Ballabio, VP Partnerships

"Between Anthropic and Azure, we get the best capabilities in the world and we get the best security in the world. And that's exactly what nuclear needs. It's how we compressed a safety analysis that would have taken 200 human days into a single day."
Matt Huang, Founding Product Lead

"Our customers describe their tests in plain English, and Momentic runs through the interface to verify everything works before a release ships. We found Claude Opus especially suited to this, and running it on Azure Foundry we now serve millions of tokens per minute with the reliability our customers depend on."
Jeff An, Co-founder & CEO

Build with Claude through your Azure account

To start, Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are available in the Messages API, with core capabilities like prompt caching and extended thinking to support use cases ranging from coding and agentic work to complex reasoning. We'll continue expanding what's available in Foundry over time.

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is Azure-native, working with your existing Azure identity, networking, and governance controls. You receive a single consolidated invoice, and for eligible customers with a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, Claude usage draws down a Microsoft Azure commitment.

Run Claude in Azure, operated by Anthropic

There are two ways to run Claude in Microsoft Foundry. Choose hosted on Azure when running in your Azure environment matters, with Azure authentication, billing, governance, and a US data zone. Choose hosted on Anthropic (previously the Foundry Preview) when you need the full set of API features or a model that is not yet available on Azure. Over time, we aim to have feature and model parity between the hosted on Azure offering and the Anthropic-hosted one.

Get started

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is generally available today. To get started, open Claude in Microsoft Foundry.

How it works

Admins can now provision MCP connectors for their whole organization through their identity provider, starting with Okta. Users get connector access automatically on first login, with authorization configured centrally by their organization.

Connectors make Claude more useful at work — they give Claude the context it needs from the tools that your teams already use. Until now, turning them on required action at two steps: admins enabled a connector for the organization, and then every individual user authorized it themselves.

Enterprise-managed authorization streamlines that second step. Admins authorize a connector once, users inherit access through the IdP groups and roles they already have, and the connector is there the first time someone opens Claude. The result is zero-touch connector setup for the end user.

Enterprise-managed auth is the first implementation of the Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension to the Model Context Protocol. It's built on an open standard so any connector can support it — including the custom connectors your own teams build — and they all work the same way for every Claude customer.

Connect your identity provider to Claude and choose which MCP connectors to enable for your organization. When an employee logs in, their connectors are already there. Access stays consistent across Claude chat, Claude Code, and Cowork.

For admins, this folds MCP access management into the same workflow that governs the rest of your stack: provision once, scope by group, manage revocation through the IdP. Because checking access with the IdP is frictionless, admins can shorten access token lifetimes without impacting productivity — so when someone is deprovisioned, their connector access expires fast instead of lingering on an old token. Access runs through the identity provider you already trust, so connectors fall under the same security and access controls as everything else, rather than a separate surface to monitor.

Admins can also require that a connector only ever connects through the IdP, which keeps work and personal use cleanly separated and prevents someone from accidentally linking a personal account to a work tool.

Built with an ecosystem

Enterprise-managed authorization works across three groups: the identity providers that govern access, the MCP providers that support the standard, and the Claude customers deploying managed connections across their teams.

Identity providers

Okta is supported at launch, with support for additional identity providers coming soon.

MCP providers

Asana, Atlassian, Canva, Figma, Granola, Linear, and Supabase support Enterprise-managed auth at launch, with Slack coming soon.

Claude customers

Hubspot, Ramp, and Webflow are among the organizations rolling out enterprise-managed auth across their teams.

Quotes and endorsements from partners and customers are included to highlight the impact and trust in this feature.

Getting started

Enterprise-managed auth is available today in beta for customers on the Claude Team and Enterprise plans. Learn more on our Help Center and apply for access to get started.

Any identity or MCP provider can add support for enterprise-managed auth by implementing the open extension to the MCP authorization spec. Submit interest to join the beta here.

Preview your in-progress work as a live, interactive web page—built from your full session context and shareable with your team.

Starting today, Claude Code can capture work progress as an artifact, which turn Claude Code's work into live, shareable visual pages— including PR walkthroughs, system explainers, dashboards, and release checklists—that update themselves as your session works.

A Claude Code session can range from investigating an incident to refactoring a service to analyzing months of data. Artifacts translate the work into a web page anyone can open and explore, like a pull request walkthrough, a dashboard you can filter and sort, or even a release checklist that fills itself out as work gets done. Artifacts make it easier to collaborate on shared work, so teams can spend more time building and less time communicating status updates.

Built on the context from your session

Claude Code builds an artifact using the full context of your session, including your codebase, your connectors, and the conversation itself. A single incident page can bring together the failing test and the function behind it from your code, the error spike from a connected monitoring tool, and the root-cause reasoning from the session you just ran. With artifacts, you don't need to wire up data sources or stand up infrastructure. You ask for a page, and Claude Code builds it from what already exists.

Live pages that update in place

When Claude Code updates an artifact, the open page refreshes in place and teammates see the updates the moment they’re published. Every publish is a new version at the same link, with version history so you can restore at any time, and a gallery lets you browse and manage all artifacts you've made.

From our internal testing, one of our most common use cases has been debugging. These typically look something like: An engineer kicks off an incident investigation before standup. Claude Code works through the logs and publishes an artifact: a timeline, the suspect commits, and an error-rate chart. She shares the link with her team from the page header. By the time standup begins, Claude has republished it twice as the investigation progressed, incorporating the latest information. With artifacts, team members and stakeholders don’t have to "walk us through what the agent found" because they're all looking at the same view, with the same context.

Private to your organization

Every artifact is private to its author by default. When you're ready, share it with your teammates and your organization directly from the page. Artifacts are viewable only by authenticated members of your org and cannot be made public. Admins manage access with an org-level toggle and role-based scoping, set retention policies, and get org-wide visibility through the compliance API.

Getting started

Ask your session for an artifact — or just ask for something visual, here are some ideas by role:

• Legal / open source: A license audit of every dependency, flagging copyleft, straight from the repo. "Build an artifact listing every third-party dependency and its license, flagging anything copyleft."
• Privacy: A data-flow map of where personal data is collected, stored, and logged across the code. "Trace where we touch personal data across the codebase into an artifact for the privacy review."
• Security: Findings that link to the exact line, so the fix is unambiguous. "Build an artifact of the auth findings from this review, each linked to the code."
• FinOps / platform finance: Cloud resources and cost drivers mapped from your infrastructure-as-code. "Map our cloud resources from the Terraform into an artifact, grouped by service, with the big cost drivers."
• Software engineers: A PR or bug walkthrough reviewers can actually follow, pulled from the diff and the code around it. "Make an artifact walking through this PR — the diff, the reasoning, and what I tested."
• Designers & frontend engineers: Several UX directions for a screen, each built from your real components so the one you pick is shippable. "Give me an artifact with 5 UX variations of this signup form, built from our component library."
• Staff engineers & architects: A map of how a service actually fits together, drawn from the real import graph instead of a whiteboard. "Map how the payments service fits together into an artifact, from the code."
• SRE & on-call: An incident page that grows as you investigate and becomes the postmortem. "Turn this incident into an artifact — timeline, suspect commits, error spike from our monitoring — and republish as I work through it."
• Engineering managers: A page of what actually shipped, built from the merged PRs. "Build an artifact of what merged on my team this week from the PRs, grouped by project."

Claude Code builds the page and gives you a link. Open it in your browser or the desktop app, share it from the header—updates publish to the same URL automatically.

Availability

Artifacts is available in beta to Claude Team and Enterprise orgs, from the Claude Code CLI and desktop app, with pages viewable in any browser.

Get started today with Claude Code.

Claude Design now sticks to your design system across projects, works fluidly with Claude Code, lets you edit directly on the canvas, and connects to more tools you already use. It has a new home in the sidebar on the Claude desktop app; you can also find it at claude.ai/design.

Our goal remains the same as before: letting you explore more directions than a deadline usually allows and making the handoff to polish or build as seamless as possible. That goal now serves a lot more people. Over one million people used Claude Design in its first week, and your feedback is shaping what we build next.

Build with your design system components

We rebuilt the design system import to give you more flexibility and increase precision. Bring in one or several design systems from a GitHub repo, design files, or raw uploads. Claude builds with your components, checks its output against your design system, and makes corrections before you see it. For larger teams, a new admin role can approve one standard system and lock down edits, so the work always matches your company guidelines.

Move between design and code

It's now easier to move between working in Claude Design and Claude Code while keeping your work synced, with updates rolling out today. Use /design-sync to pull in your design system, so everything you build in Claude Design starts from your existing components. When a design is ready to become software, you can hand it off to Claude Code, which continues from your existing work instead of starting over from a screenshot.

Prefer to begin in Claude Code? You can create, edit, and sync design projects without leaving the terminal using /design. Import a design into your codebase, turn your code into a live prototype, or let Claude carry a project all the way through.

"Claude design gives me the intelligence of frontier models with the functionality & capabilities of tried & true design tools. Anytime I'm working on design directions for Tenex's site, new brand assets, or presentations, Claude Design is the first place I go. The combination of approachable UX with strong taste & design instinct is why it's become a core part of my tech stack. And then the hand-off between Claude Design and Claude Code makes the process of prototype to production seamless."

• Alex Lieberman, Cofounder, Morning Brew & Tenex

Steadier for daily work

Our new editor gives you direct, fine-grained control over every element of your designs. New, rich layout controls let you drag, resize, and align elements. Hundreds of stability fixes make the editor hold up under real use.

Claude Design also now shares usage limits with chat, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code, so most people will get much more headroom to create, and those hitting limits will do so less often. The average turn now uses fewer tokens to achieve the same results, and errors are down sharply.

From the canvas to the tools you use

Export reliably to PDF and PowerPoint or send your work to the apps you already use—the list of connectors now includes Adobe, Base44, Canva, Gamma, Lovable, Miro, Replit, Vercel and Wix, with more destinations coming soon.

Getting started

Claude Design is in beta on Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans and included with your subscription. It’s turned off by default for Enterprise users; admins can enable it in organization settings, and work is shareable only within your organization. Find it at claude.ai/design or in the sidebar on the desktop app. Bring in your design system and create. No ideas? Ask for three directions on your next landing page, and pick the one worth refining.