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Anthropic silently flipped Claude Cowork Projects to cloud-by-default and broke every local-folder workflow
An r/ClaudeAI post (159 upvotes, 65 comments) reports Projects quietly switched its default to running in the cloud, which cut off local filesystem access and, confusingly, internet access for existing project workflows. A barely-documented "Run on computer only" toggle restores it, but you can no longer create a project with persistent local folders at all. The auto-generated mod-bot summary after 50 comments recorded broad confirmation, and a non-coding writer in the thread described migrating from Google Antigravity to Cowork specifically for multi-folder access and now being stuck.
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