Claude Cowork Desktop Unusable in Corporate Environments Without Proxy
The Claude Cowork desktop app runs in an isolated VM with no awareness of host-system proxy configuration, causing all API calls to fail silently in corporate networks behind HTTP/HTTPS proxies. Unlike Claude Code CLI which supports standard proxy environment variables, Cowork provides no mechanism to configure or inherit proxy settings, completely blocking enterprise adoption.
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