Hands-on with Anthropic's Claude Science Research Workbench
aigclink · x · 2026-07-04
An overview of Claude Science, released by Anthropic on June 30, 2026. Positioned as the "Claude Code" for the research community, it is an AI workbench for researchers running on top of existing Claude models rather than a new model.
It integrates commonly used research tools and data sources into a single environment, bringing together PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals, and more. It connects to over 60 scientific databases and includes built-in toolkits for fields like genomics, protein structure, and chemistry. It utilizes multi-agent collaboration: a main assistant acts as a "project manager," spawning sub-assistants for specialized tasks, while an independent fact-checking agent verifies citations and calculations.
Every chart comes with the exact code, environment, and message history used to generate it. Users can request chart modifications in natural language (e.g., "change the axis to a log scale"), and the system will modify the code itself, ensuring reproducibility, auditable results, and flexible compute access.
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