#CRAFT Downloads
Downloads for CRAFT for Claude Cowork
What you’re downloading
CRAFT for Claude Cowork (free during beta). The complete everyday CRAFT experience for Claude in Cowork mode — yours to download and use during the public beta under the CRAFT Terms of Service (Section 4.4, Free Public Beta Releases). It’s the full user-tier framework in one folder — recipes, cookbooks, cheatsheets, templates, the persona system, and the project scaffolding that ties them together: the methodology layer for applying production-systems discipline to AI work and building durable context across sessions.
There’s nothing else to install — the framework files live alongside your project, and Claude Cowork loads them every session. The releases page always lists the current version at the top; for what’s in it and what’s changed, see What’s New and the Changelog.
How to get it
Get started
1. Download the .zip and unzip it.
2. Open the folder in Claude Cowork.
3. Say: "Initialize a CRAFT session."
New to CRAFT? Say: "turn on tutorial mode.".zip listed under Assets.
That’s the whole install
Download the release, unzip it, and point Claude Cowork at the folder — you’re running CRAFT. No login, no paywall, no email gate — just download and open.
The framework is free during Beta. Full setup notes live in the release’s README.
Optional · Verify your download
Check the signature before you trust it
From the same release, also download SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.asc, then run:
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMSgpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMS
Full steps are in the repository’s VERIFY.md.
Become a Founding Chef
The download above is free and needs no account. If you’d like a seat at the table while the framework is still being shaped, CRAFT for Cowork is in open beta. Until December 31, 2026, anyone joining gets Founding Chef recognition.
After December 31, the framework continues — the product doesn’t go away. What closes is the window where your feedback can directly steer the roadmap. That window is sized to one solo developer’s bandwidth, which is why it has to close.
Founding Chef · Closes December 31, 2026
→ Join the Free CRAFT BetaDownload. Unzip. Build.
CRAFT for Claude Cowork is free during Beta. When a new release ships, it’s posted on the releases page; the website’s What’s New and Changelog name the current version. Each release is signed and verifiable.
Get the latest releaseSigned · Verifiable · Free during Beta
Heads up · Updating & offline projects
Getting updates, and what to do without internet
To update, download the current release from the releases page and replace your project’s “CRAFT Core Files” folder with the new one — your “CRAFT Project Files” (your own work) are never touched. The website always names the current version. Downloading a release needs an internet connection.
If your CRAFT for Cowork project has no internet access, you have two options:
- Replace the framework folder manually. On a connected machine, download the latest release, then copy its “CRAFT Core Files” folder into your project, replacing the existing one. Keep the old folder and you can roll back; the built-in upgrade-verify recipe (CWK-073) confirms the new files are intact and that none of your work changed.
- Create a fresh project and transfer your work. Use the cross-project knowledge transfer recipe pair (CWK-026 Cross-Project Knowledge Packager → CWK-027 Cross-Project Knowledge Receiver), with CWK-029 Cowork Project Creator to scaffold the new project. The packager bundles your existing project’s lessons, decisions, and state; the receiver imports them into the fresh scaffold.
Both paths land you on the current framework with your project intact.