Anthropic expands Claude stack

Anthropic is widening Claude from a chat app into a stack of coding and document tools, starting with a rebuilt Claude Code and a Word add-in. (venturebeat.com) (support.claude.com) On April 14, 2026, Anthropic rolled out a redesigned Claude Code desktop app for Mac and Windows and put “Routines” into research preview. The new app adds a multi-session sidebar, integrated terminal, in-app file editor, expanded preview area, and a rebuilt diff viewer. (venturebeat.com) (siliconangle.com) Routines package a prompt, one or more repositories, and connectors into a saved workflow that can run on a schedule, from an application programming interface call, or from GitHub events. Anthropic’s documentation says the jobs run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, so they keep running when a user’s laptop is closed. (code.claude.com) Anthropic is also pushing Claude into Microsoft Word. Its help center says Claude for Word is now in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, aimed at legal review, financial memo drafting, and iterative editing inside Word rather than in a separate chat window. (support.claude.com) (marketplace.microsoft.com) The Word add-in reads multi-section documents, works through comment threads, preserves formatting, and shows edits as tracked changes that users can accept or reject. Anthropic’s public site now lists Claude for Word alongside Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint, showing a broader push into the Microsoft Office suite. (marketplace.microsoft.com) (anthropic.com) That expansion follows Anthropic’s February release of Claude Opus 4.6, which the company positioned as its top model for coding, search, finance, and long-running agent tasks. In the same announcement, Anthropic said Opus 4.6 brought a one million token context window in beta and new effort controls for balancing speed, cost, and reasoning depth. (anthropic.com) Reports published on April 14 and April 15 say Anthropic is preparing another flagship update, Claude Opus 4.7, along with an artificial intelligence design tool for building websites and presentations from plain-language prompts. Anthropic has not posted a public product announcement for either item on its newsroom page as of April 15, 2026. (dataconomy.com) (finance.yahoo.com) (anthropic.com) The product push is landing as some developers complain that Claude has become less reliable in recent weeks. VentureBeat reported on April 13 that users on GitHub, X, and Reddit said Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code were showing weaker sustained reasoning, more abandoned tasks, and more contradictions. (venturebeat.com) Those claims remain disputed. VentureBeat reported that Anthropic employees denied degrading models to manage capacity, while also acknowledging changes to usage limits and reasoning defaults that may have affected how users experienced the product. (venturebeat.com) Anthropic is now trying to sell Claude in three places at once: the developer desktop, the automated back end, and the document editor where contracts and memos get written. The next test is whether new surfaces like Routines and Word can win enterprise users faster than performance complaints erode trust. (venturebeat.com) (support.claude.com) (venturebeat.com)