Anthropic's Conway experiment is approaching a fork in the road. A notice we recently spotted on the Conway interface states that the project will be discontinued on July 24th and asks testers to export their data before then. Conway, the always-on agent Anthropic has been running internally with employees and, by some indications, a small friends-and-family circle, first surfaced this spring as a standalone instance able to run Claude Code, operate a browser, send notifications, and wake up via webhooks.

Conway access ends Fri July 24 at 5 pm PT. To export your data, ask Conway: "export my data".

The notice reads two ways. The first is a full wind-down: Anthropic may have concluded that a remote container where Claude works in an isolated environment does not fit its roadmap, and that its agent bets are better placed on the desktop path already shipping through Cowork, where Claude acts as a personal agent on the user's own machine. In that case, Conway would likely vanish from the codebase without ever being announced, closing one of the company's most intriguing side projects.

The second reading is that internal testing is wrapping up because a broader phase is next. Anthropic tends to open new capabilities to Max subscribers first, and a limited preview along those lines would fit the pattern. Under this scenario, Conway would become reachable across Anthropic's apps as a remote container where users install plugins and skills, hand off different types of work, and configure webhooks that fire when outside events occur. Alongside it, a standard referred to as UI tabs is expected to let users define and share their own component panels, a custom Conway control surface, for instance, building on the extension format seen in earlier findings.

Which way this breaks matters beyond one experiment: it would show whether Anthropic believes persistent agents belong on the user's device or in the cloud, a question rival labs are circling with always-on projects of their own. By the end of July, the answer should be on the record.