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7> When [Unified Claude](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md) is on, a message sent from the home screen starts a Cowork session on a device that can run Cowork. From November 10, 2026, Unified Claude is [on by default](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md#enabling-unified-claude). Cowork is then on too, even where you turned Cowork off. To keep Cowork off, see [Keep Cowork off](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md#keep-cowork-off).
7> When [Unified Claude](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md) is on, a message sent from the home screen starts a Cowork session on a device that can run Cowork. From November 10, 2026, Unified Claude is [on by default](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md#enabling-unified-claude). Cowork is then on too, even where you turned Cowork off.
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99Chat in Claude Desktop on third-party (3P) is a conversational surface for quick questions and drafting. Unlike [Cowork](https://claude.com/docs/cowork/overview.md) and [Code](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/code.md), which run agentic sessions with access to folders you grant and a code-execution environment, a Chat conversation runs with a deliberately small tool surface: it can search and fetch the web under your admin configuration, read files attached to the conversation, read and update the project's memory and read the files in the project's folders when the conversation is inside a project, write files into a scratch space of its own, and use skills from the plugins you provision, and nothing else on the machine. While `desktopHome` is unset and Unified Claude is off, Chat is off by default and is enabled with a single configuration key.
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