#CRAFT Downloads

Downloads for CRAFT for Claude Cowork

What you’re downloading

CRAFT for Claude Cowork — Release Candidate (free). The complete everyday CRAFT experience for Claude in Cowork mode, free under the CRAFT Beta license. It’s the full user-tier framework in one folder — recipes, cookbooks, specifications, 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.

Current release candidate: v.b0001.p202606.01b (June 2026) · pre-release. There’s nothing else to install — the framework files live alongside your project, and Claude Cowork loads them every session.

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."
Download the .zip →     All releases →

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 SHA256SUMS
gpg --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 September 1, 2026, anyone joining gets Founding Chef recognition.

After September 1, 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 September 1, 2026

→ Join the Free CRAFT Beta

Download. Unzip. Build.

CRAFT for Claude Cowork is free during Beta. When a new release ships, it’s posted here and on the downloads page — the website always names the current version. Each release is signed and verifiable.

Download the release

Signed · Verifiable · Free during Beta

Heads up · Updating & offline projects

Getting updates, and what to do without internet

To update, download the newer release from the downloads page and replace your framework files — 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:

  1. Replace files manually. On a connected machine, download the latest release, then copy the framework files into your project folder, replacing the existing ones.
  2. 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.