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The only button that brings your Cowork sessions home.

OnwardAI · guide · checked 2026-10-30

“The only” as of 2026-10-30: we checked AI Toolbox and Claude Exporter (they save claude.ai chats only) and the cowork-export script and Cowork Porter (they read the desktop app’s copy on your own computer only). None of them pulls Cowork sessions from Anthropic’s servers.

Where it lives. Cowork Home lives in your browser’s top bar, in the row with the address bar. It is not on the claude.ai page. After you install it, click the puzzle piece at the top right of the browser and pin Cowork Home by AURiX. Then open claude.ai, signed in, and click the gold house icon in the top bar. The panel drops down from it.

The short answer

Claude’s export does not include Cowork sessions. They live in two places: a copy on your computer, kept by the Claude desktop app, and a copy on Anthropic’s servers. A free script reads the copy on your computer. A one-button browser extension, Cowork Home by AURiX, pulls the copy on the servers. Neither is an Anthropic product.

Free to install: it lists every session and brings 3 home. $19 once brings them all. Done for you: $200.

Claude’s export leaves them out. Here is how to get them.

You asked Claude for your data and the zip came back with your chats, and none of your Cowork work. That is not a fault on your side: Anthropic’s export does not carry Cowork. Here is where the sessions actually live, what the export holds, and the two ways to get them onto your own disk — before you close an account, switch to a new one, or just want to keep what you made.

What Anthropic’s export carries, and what it does not

The export (your initials → Settings → Privacy → Export data) holds conversations.json with your chats, users.json with your account line, and a projects/ folder. Anthropic’s help page describes it as “conversation data and the user data for your account.” It does not mention Cowork, and our own zip proved it: the chats arrived, the Cowork sessions did not. There is no export button for them. The export steps, and what is in the zip

Anthropic’s help page re-read 2026-09-15; the zip is our own, opened by hand.

Where Cowork sessions live

On your computer

The desktop app keeps every session as JSON. On a Mac that is under ~/Library/Application Support/Claude; on Windows under %APPDATA%\Claude, or the Store app’s folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Claude_*\LocalCache\Roaming\Claude. None of this is documented by Anthropic; it is what people have found on their own disks.

On Anthropic’s servers

The same sessions also exist on Anthropic’s side, behind a different door than the chats — one no menu offers, that opens only from a browser signed in as you. We walked it for our own record: 87 Cowork sessions, 42,830 turns, about 9 MB the export had never carried.

Why the two copies matter: the copy on your computer is only on the computer that ran the sessions. A new laptop, a wiped drive, or a second machine does not have it. The server copy follows the account, not the machine.

Local paths from the cowork-export README and a developer’s own write-up, both read 2026-10-30. The 87-session count is our own record, measured 2026-08-25.

Two ways out

1. Free: a Python script for the copy on your computer

cowork-export is an open-source script that reads the Cowork folder the desktop app keeps and packages one project, or all of them, into a zip: a readable transcript.md per session, the raw files, the files Claude produced, and the files you attached. It is thorough. Its limits, as its own README states them:

  1. It needs Python 3.9 or newer and a terminal: you run commands like python3 cowork_export.py --all.
  2. It reads the local folder only. It cannot reach a session that is not on the machine you run it on.
  3. “Not included, because it only exists in the cloud: regular Claude chats, artifacts and Claude Docs pages (links stay in the transcript), and project knowledge files.”
  4. Transcripts are exported as-is, so check them for anything you pasted before you share the zip.

If you are comfortable in a terminal and still have the machine that ran your sessions, start here. It costs nothing.

Quoted from the cowork-export README, read 2026-10-30.

2. One button: Cowork Home by AURiX, for the copy on Anthropic’s servers

Cowork Home is a small extension for Chrome, Brave or Edge with one button. Open claude.ai signed in, click the gold house in your browser’s top bar, press BRING 3 HOME (free) or BRING ALL HOME (with a key), and every Cowork session kept in your account comes home as a dated, readable text file in your own Downloads folder — the words of every turn, verbatim, with its time — in one zip named COWORK_HOME_<today>.zip, plus 00_LEDGER.txt listing every file with a SHA-256 and a receipt line with the totals. A very large account comes home as several zips, each under 150 MB.

  1. No terminal, no Python. Install once (about two minutes). Then it is a gold house in your browser’s top bar, and one click opens the panel.
  2. Free to try for real. Free, it checks you are signed in, lists every Cowork session on your account with its date, and brings 3 home. $19 once gets a key from Gumroad; paste it into the extension once and every session comes home.
  3. Any machine, same account. It reads the server copy, so it works on a computer that never ran Cowork.
  4. Nothing kept, nothing sent elsewhere. When you add it, your browser lists what it may do: manage your downloads, and read and change your data on claude.ai and api.gumroad.com. What it actually does: it reads your own Cowork sessions from claude.ai with your own sign-in, saves them to your Downloads, keeps its key in your browser, and sends your key and the product id to Gumroad to check it. AURiX receives nothing. It never touches the page you are on. Its privacy page
  5. Nothing overwritten. Pressing it again makes a new zip; the same day it is named COWORK_HOME_<today> (1).zip.
  6. Machinery left out. Control requests, system notes and environment logs the door also carries are not record, and are not written. What comes home is the words of every turn, one text file per session.

Said plainly: the door Cowork Home uses is Anthropic’s own unofficial door. It is not documented, no menu offers it, and it may close any day. When it closes, the button stops working and says so. Nothing here forces anything. Pull your sessions while it is open.

The zip carries a self-test you can run yourself: a fake door on your own machine, and a test that loads the extension into a clean browser, presses the button, and checks names, verbatim text, order, duplicates, hashes and totals, with zero requests to any host but the door.

Said plainly, before you buy:

  • Your account. Cowork Home reads your own Cowork sessions from claude.ai with your own sign-in, through an address Anthropic does not document or offer. Anthropic’s terms forbid reaching their service by “automated or non-human means” unless they allow it, and they can close accounts without notice. We cannot promise they will never act on an account that uses this. If your Claude account matters more to you than these files, don’t use it.
  • What comes home: the words of every turn, with times. Not the files Claude made. Tool steps come home as notes (each tool’s name and what it was given, and the first 500 characters of what it gave back), and pictures only when claude.ai hands their bytes over inside the session; neither has been tried on a real account yet.
  • Which sessions: the ones kept in your Claude account — the ones you can open from claude.ai or another device. Sessions that only ever ran in the desktop app may live only on that computer (the free cowork-export script reads that copy). Press LIST first: it is free and shows exactly what is there.
  • When you’re done, you can remove the extension. Your files stay. While installed it can reach your claude.ai account; it only does so when you press a button.

Free to install, list every session and bring 3 home.

Cowork Home by AURiX — $19 once, every session

Done-for-you — $200 if you would rather install nothing: email first and a person does it with you.

Every claim in this card is from Cowork Home’s own README and its 0.2.2 self-test, run against a stand-in for claude.ai on a test machine, 2026-10-30.

The one file a buyer gets, as uploaded 2026-10-30: COWORK_HOME_TOOL_TO_SEND_v0.2.2.zip, 75,242 bytes, sha256 acc5aee674c8bcb6b664f08fe0bbe7d14d0dad2d72cc7f264df72bcd4b7d9857.

Moving Cowork to a new Claude account

There is no move button. Cowork is per account: sign in to a new one and the sidebar is empty — no sessions, no Cowork projects, no scheduled tasks. One developer who moved an account with 432 Cowork tasks by hand wrote down what went wrong, including 13 transcripts lost on the way to Claude Code’s default 30-day cleanup. The order that keeps everything:

  1. While you can still sign in to the old account, request Anthropic’s own export for the chats.
  2. Save the local copy with a script, on the machine that ran the sessions.
  3. On the old account, open claude.ai signed in, click the gold house in your browser’s top bar, and bring the sessions home. That is the server copy.
  4. Only then sign out.

The 432-task move as its author tells it, read 2026-10-30.

Questions people ask

Is my Cowork history gone if it is not in the export?

No. It is still on Anthropic’s servers, and on the computer that ran it. The export just does not carry it.

Does Cowork Home work if I cannot sign in to the account any more?

No. The door opens only from a browser signed in as you. Pull before you close or lose an account.

Does it read my regular chats too?

No. Chats come through Anthropic’s own export. Cowork Home brings the Cowork sessions the export leaves out.

Then what do I do with the files?

They are already readable text. Unzip COWORK_HOME_<date>.zip, put the folder inside it beside your other exports, and search all of it at once.

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Why bother? Because your record is yours. Accounts close, policies change, doors shut. A copy on your own machine answers to nobody.

Cowork Home is made by AURiX, owned by TruthKeeper IP Holdings LLC.