Claude Cowork without the cost?

Just saw this on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/ykcxUvMkLa

Apparently Anthropic has shipped an update this week that allows you to divert Cowork from using Anthropic cloud service models, and instead run them through other services that include local systems.

For anyone who doesn’t access Reddit or can’t see the post, the author comments “Anthropic just shipped the most important enterprise update Claude Code has had in years.

No release notes. No blog post. No announcement. Buried in the support documentation for this week's Claude Apps for Windows and Desktop.

It is third-party gateway support inside Claude desktop app.

In plain terms, the desktop app can now point at a gateway you run, instead of Anthropic's servers. No cloud login. No prompts leaving your perimeter. Your inference, your infrastructure, your compliance boundary. The client stays the same.”

Is this a development people are talking excited by? I can’t use Cowork currently so don’t know if I’m missing out. This is GitHub repo used to build integrate Cowork to other services - https://github.com/systempromptio/systemprompt-template (this is not mine and not tested, just making the community aware)

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