Is Claude Cowork included in your plan?
Cowork ships with every paid Claude plan and no free one, and it spends the same usage budget as chat and Claude Code. Checked 19 August 2026.
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Cowork ships with every paid Claude plan and no free one, and it spends the same usage budget as chat and Claude Code. Checked 19 August 2026.
Cowork runs in an Anthropic sandbox and touches folders you connect. Claude Code runs on your machine or VPS. Where each one fits, checked August 2026.
Use Claude as the brain and your VPS as the body. How the Messages API, tool use, and MCP fit together to build an AI agent you run yourself.
Get a Claude API key, secure it on Ubuntu 24.04, ship a Python log-explainer with streaming, typed error handling, and real cost control.