r/ClaudeCowork

A few months ago I asked whether a PM should work in Claude Code or Cowork. The answer was almost unanimous: Claude Code, better output, more control.
Both tools have changed a lot since then, so I'm asking again.
My context: I'm not a developer. My work is docs, briefs, research synthesis, spreadsheets and slides. No code.
If you've used both recently:
• Do you still see a quality gap on non-code work? On which tasks?
• Were you using the same model on both?
• Is the IDE/terminal overhead worth it for a non-technical user?
Concrete examples are the most useful. "I gave X to both and got Y" beats "Code is just better."

Since cowork and chat have combined will this subreddit close and we will move over to a different one?

Hi, Anthropic blocking me to auto send my outlook draft. Is there a way to make it automatically send without approval?

I've noticed this becoming more frequent in the last two weeks. This happens even if I keep the session focused on one activity/topic and handing over to new sessions when we reach about 10 chats in a session.

It's wasting time and eating up tokens. Very annoyed by this.

I want to ask the experts, I usually dont need more than my pro plan weekly quota, but for a couple of months I will be working on a project which needs a bit more quota than pro plan (my quota resets on Sunday morning and I am reaching the weekly limit by thursday afternoon / friday morning)

I use cowork mostly

I was thinking about upgrading to MAX but it is beyond my budget right now, so I though maybe get a team plan getting to seats, point them to the same memory folders md files, and use one account till its done and then the other.

What do you guys think, can this be done to work seamlessly?

Thanks in advance

Update: Why is cowork not registering and following up on the questions it posses after I've answered them? Noted, cowork is not for scripts.

It sucks so bad. Is anyone else experiencing the same and or does anyone know how to fix this?

1. It doens't tell me what it's working on. I told it to tell me what it's doing before doing it and update it's memory for this. It helps a little but not really.
2. My bad, it only ran scripts because they where attached to skills I use: It runs scripts that break b.c. scripts can only run for like 30sec on cowork. It doens't notice that the script breaks and just sits there waiting. I don't know that it's waiting because it actually tells me that it's computing/working on something which I can't really see what it is doing so I'm waiting on it to finish up.
3. The most annoying to me: It asks me questions, I answer the questions, it shows it's computing and nothing happens for the next 30min until I ask what it's doing. Then it tells me it forgot to ask me the questions and prompts me with the same questions again but missing the last one of the bunch. So if it was origionally 4 questions the second time its 3 questions and it just picks what it recommended for the 4th question regardless of my response. This is not a one off either but keeps happening.

The one upside is that it seems to be cheaper than claude code in a vacuum but at least claude code gets the job done.

The current ms365 connector is severely lacking when it comes to working with the 365 platform. It’s quite disappointing.

Where can I find a real ms365 connector that enables actual work with ms365? I don’t mean reading my emails, I mean adding users to groups, pulling data from intune, reporting or troubleshooting CA policy failures, building intune packages, license changes, editing user accounts, etc etc.

Copilot has a built in “Microsoft 365 admin” agent right out the box, is there anything official like this for Claude?

I know I can build something custom with MSgraph, but I’d much rather have something official that’s supported by at least one of the two companies involved. Anyone with any experience in this area?

I use the Microsoft 365 connector for Outlook every day. Claude writes great emails and saves them as drafts, but three things still keep me doing manual work:

1. Replies in the thread: I've noticed the connector has a reply-draft function. In my experience, though, Claude only creates a new draft instead of replying in the existing conversation. Has anyone found a reliable way to enforce this (skills, project instructions)?
2. Signature: Drafts created through Microsoft Graph don't get the Outlook signature, and inline images (logo) are rejected. Are you using a server-side signature tool (CodeTwo, Exclaimer, etc.)? Or is there a better way?
3. Attachments: This is the big one. Claude creates PDFs for me (letters, reports, meeting minutes), but I have to attach them to the draft myself. The connector doesn't seem to support attachments at all.

Has anyone built a working setup where Claude writes the reply and the generated PDF ends up attached to that draft automatically? I'm thinking of things like Power Automate flows, Outlook VBA macros, a custom MCP server with Graph's attachment endpoint, or browser automation.

I'd appreciate any setups that work for you. Thanks!