Hane Cowork overview

This page explains what Hane Cowork is, how it divides responsibilities with Hane Platform, and what you can do from each screen.

Preview

Hane Cowork is currently a verification preview. The builds are unsigned verification builds, and signing in uses a provisional method where you enter the Platform URL and an access token. See Availability and limitations for the status of each feature.

The app UI is in Japanese

The Cowork UI is currently available in Japanese only. These pages show each UI label in Japanese followed by an English gloss, for example 「新しい作業」 (New work).

What Hane Cowork is

Hane Cowork (Cowork) is a desktop app that people use on their own PC. You describe what you want done, and an agent plans the steps and works with the files in your work folder, the Chrome tabs you share, and the app windows you choose.

Your organization sets the upper limit of what the agent may do. For example, it can allow work-folder files, require confirmation for every Chrome action, and deny computer use. Each capability is set to allow, confirm, or deny. Within those limits, you choose the folder, tabs, and windows to use this time.

Cowork runs on macOS and Windows. It is a Tauri app that uses the operating system’s WebView. Basic conversations do not require Node.js, Chrome, or any other prerequisites.

A tour of the app
Recorded in the actual Hane Cowork app (connected to a test Platform with scripted model responses). The app UI is in Japanese; English captions explain each step.

Who does what

Ordinary requests run on your PC in the harness (the agent runtime) bundled with Cowork. Platform provides identity, model access, and organization policy.

Responsibility	What it covers
Cowork (on your PC)	Conversations and drafts, starting and stopping the bundled harness, file/Chrome/computer actions, asking you for confirmation, showing progress and results, on-device history
Hane Platform	Identity, organization policy (allow/confirm/deny for each local capability), model access and quotas through the Model Gateway, call records
Business agents on Platform	Used from business entry points such as web apps and workflows. Ordinary Cowork requests do not go through business agents

A request started from 「新しい作業」 (New work) becomes 「この PC での作業」 (work on this PC) and runs in the bundled harness. It does not create a business conversation or an AgentRun on Platform. Business conversations stored on Platform continue as Platform conversations only when you open them from Platform conversations.

Cowork UI ──request──▶ Cowork core ──policy / model access──▶ Hane Platform
                         │   ▲                                   │
                  launch │   │ model calls (relay inside the PC)  │ Model Gateway
                         ▼   │                                   ▼
                     Bundled harness ──local tools──▶ files, Chrome, computer use

When the harness calls a model, Cowork relays the request inside your PC and forwards it to Platform’s Model Gateway. Each time a local tool is used, Cowork checks the organization policy. For details, see How Cowork keeps things safe.

Main screens

Open the following screens from the left sidebar.

Screen	What you can do
「新しい作業」 (New work)	Write and send a request. The home screen has example requests and a browser demo (「Computer Use を体験」, Try Computer Use)
Work screen	See requests and replies, 「作業の進行」 (Progress), and confirmations. For work that uses computer use, a workspace panel opens on the right
「作業グループ」 (Work groups)	Keep ongoing work together with its work folder, instructions, and memos
「保存した頼み方」 (Saved requests)	Save the text of requests you use often and reuse it as a new draft
「Platform の会話」 (Platform conversations)	Open your conversations stored on Platform and continue them
「ライブラリ」 (Library)	List files created during work
「通知」 (Notifications)	List work with replies, pending confirmations, failures, or connection checks
「機能と接続」 (Features and connections)	Configure 「Hane Platform」, 「PC の操作」 (Computer use), 「Chrome」, 「個人の設定」 (Personal settings), and 「端末のデータ」 (Device data). You choose the work folder for each task in the request box

The lower part of the sidebar lists recent and archived work. 「作業を検索」 (Search work) finds work by title, text, or attachment name.

The main keyboard shortcuts are below (use Ctrl instead of ⌘ on Windows).

Action	Keys
New work	⌘ + N
Search conversations	⌘ + K
Features and connections	⌘ + ,
Move to the request box	⌘ + Shift + L

Examples of what you can do

• Read a CSV in the work folder, total it, and save the table as Markdown
• Read a shared Chrome tab and summarize it Preview
• Read the screen of a chosen app window and click or type in it Preview
• Open a Platform conversation and ask a business agent to continue, using attached documents

Next steps

Getting startedFrom installation to your first request

Work on this PCHow requests run, work folder, progress, and stopping

Confirmations and organization policyAllow, confirm, and deny, and the confirmation UI

Availability and limitationsCurrent status of each feature