Cloud Cowork is not working in windows 11 home edition

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 8, 2026 by devskamat018 Closed May 21, 2026

Preflight Checklist

  • [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
  • [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
  • [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

I am getting the error as below

Failed to start Claude's workspace
Can't reach the Claude API from Claude's workspace.
Restarting Claude or reconnecting to your network sometimes resolves this.

What Should Happen?

The cowork should work without giving an error

Error Messages/Logs

Failed to start Claude's workspace
Can't reach the Claude API from Claude's workspace.
Restarting Claude or reconnecting to your network sometimes resolves this.

Steps to Reproduce

1) Open the claud desktop app
2) Open the cowork tab, it will start giving the error as mentioned above.

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

Claude 1.1062.0 (b81bcd) 2026-04-06T21:20:28.000Z

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

PowerShell

Additional Information

cowork_vm_node.log
main.log

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