r/ClaudeCowork

J’ai besoin de votre aide. Comme beaucoup, j’utilise Claude Code pour coder. Mais depuis que je l’utilise, j’ai l’impression d’écrire un prompt, attendre de voir le résultat, et itérer. Même si Claude Code est très rapide, j’ai l’impression de faire des aller retours et de réfléchir beaucoup moins qu’avant, que ce soit en Edit Automatically ou Ask Before Edits.

Je suis sûr que je ne suis pas le seul dans ce cas, mais je veux savoir ce que vous avez mis en place

Merci de vos conseils🙏

Vous pensez que ce sera un jour possible avec un setup qui ne coute pas 50k€ ou autre ?

I had a debate with my partner of event management platforms are about to become something no one needs anymore.
Claude killed Figma in one day. Why not Event management platforms?
On the other hand, event management platforms started to either add AI features or build MCP servers to stay relevant.

I wonder what’s your take? Are you going to use Claude to develop your own registration flow and event website? Even potentially your event app? If not now, how’s the future 3-5 years from now looks like?

What's your method for building Agents that are Functional AND Easy to maintain or repair??

Personally, I work within the Claude environment, and I'm used to creating automations in this form: I build Plugins that run every day in Cowork (Scheduled Tasks).

When it works, it's great, but when it breaks: it's a NIGHTMARE to fix. To this day, I haven't found any simple way to repair the workflow of a plugin that breaks other than uninstalling it, fixing it via the terminal in Claude Code, and then reinstalling the plugin (which means redoing the entire setup phase for my business). Every time the workflow breaks or I just want to tweak something in my plugin, I have to uninstall it, modify it, then reinstall it. It's awful.

How do you structure your Agents? (I'm not talking about simple automations, I'm talking about chains of skills with connectors and script integrations (Python, HTML/CSS...))

Concrete use case for one of my agents:

LinkedIn Content Creator:

1. It pulls resources (topics, concepts, lessons, ideas) recently added to my Obsidian second brain.
2. A first Skill analyzes the retrieved content and suggests high-value TOFU/MOFU/BOFU angles tailored to my audience.
3. A second skill evaluates the relevance of the angles based on my target audience and creates a post whose copywriting is calibrated on a selection of 100 high-performing LinkedIn posts. The post is then saved to a local folder (linkedin-post-date).
4. Another skill is then called to create a Thumbnail for the post, generating a prompt that adapts to a reference template in .md pre-saved, using Higgsfield MCP. The thumbnail is then saved to the local folder.
5. Since all my posts contain lead magnets, another skill is called: this one analyzes the post's content and creates a high-quality asset (ebook, PDF, infographic...) based on the content by following a Python script that renders it in HTML/CSS using Playwright. The agent has reference images available (illustrations, my brand logo, and a photo of me for the "branding" side of the lead magnet). The lead magnet is then dropped as a PDF into my local folder.

This is the kind of workflow I want to automate: it needs to integrate local file manipulation, connectors, skills, scripts... And right now I only know plugins running on Cowork as a way to get acceptable output.

If you know of another way to run this kind of workflow automatically, please let me know!

So I gave Claude a prompt to create an artifact. I asked to create a html document (template) so that cowork can create and insert my lesson plan into that template (I’m a teacher).

Im an absolute noob and I’ve been struggling for 3 days. The html document opens with my browser and sometimes it saves everything but other times when I add or make adjustments. After closing it and opening it again, everything’s gone.

Ps: I’m sorry English is not my first language and I do t really understand html to explain it properly.

I came across this visual that explains Claude’s Cowork mode in a very compact way, so I thought I’d share it along with some practical context.

A lot of people still think all AI tools are just “chatbots.” Cowork mode is slightly different.

It works inside a folder you choose on your computer. Instead of answering questions, it performs file-level tasks.

In my walkthrough, I demonstrated three types of use cases that match what this image shows:

• Organizing a messy folder (grouping and renaming files without deleting anything)
• Extracting structured data from screenshots into a spreadsheet
• Combining scattered notes into one structured document

The important distinction, which the image also highlights, is:

Chat → conversation
Cowork → task execution inside a folder
Code → deeper engineering-level control

Cowork isn’t for brainstorming or creative writing. It’s more for repetitive computer work that you already know how to do manually, but don’t want to spend time on.

That said, there are limitations:

• It can modify files, so vague instructions are risky
• You should start with test folders
• You still need to review outputs carefully
• For production-grade automation, writing proper scripts is more reliable

I don’t see this as a replacement for coding. I see it as a middle layer between casual chat and full engineering workflows.

If you work with a lot of documents, screenshots, PDFs, or messy folders, it’s interesting to experiment with. If your work is already heavily scripted, it may not change much.

Curious how others here are thinking about AI tools that directly operate on local files. Useful productivity layer, or something you’d avoid for now?

I’ll put the detailed walkthrough in the comments for anyone who wants to see the step-by-step demo.

https://preview.redd.it/l8rpw6smaf2h1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3359224330d67033ab3b6f5d485e17fdcacaa194

I work at a logistics/waste collection company in Japan. I'm not a developer, but Claude has completely changed how I work. Here's how I actually use it day-to-day:

🚛 Route & scheduling optimization
I manage driver assignments and waste collection routes. Claude helps me think through complex scheduling logic and build Excel/VBA systems to automate the process.

📋 Training materials
I design onboarding programs for new drivers. Claude helps me structure the content, write schedules, and create documentation from scratch.

🎬 Safety education videos
I turn dashcam footage of near-miss incidents into educational content. My workflow: Gemini (video analysis) → Claude (script writing) → VOICEVOX (narration) → Vrew (editing) → LINE WORKS (distribution).

📊 Data automation
I use Claude to build tools that convert CSV exports from our fleet management system into formats ready for our business management app.

💬 The "thinking partner" style
I don't just ask Claude for answers. I use it as a sounding board — talking through problems, refining ideas, and getting pushback before making decisions.

I'm not a programmer. I'm just a regular office worker in Japan who found that Claude fits naturally into real workplace challenges.

Anyone else using Claude in non-tech industries? 🙋

I like the idea behind Claude Cowork, but in practice it does not feel like the remote-work experience I actually want from Claude.

For context: I think Claude Opus is still one of the best models for serious agentic coding. When the task is complicated, Opus is the model I trust most. My complaint is not about the model quality.

The problem is the workflow.

If I have a local Claude Code session running, I want to control that session directly from my phone or iPad: start it, resume it, check progress, steer it, recover from errors, and keep working without losing the thread.

Cowork feels like it is trying to solve part of this, but it still feels indirect. Dispatch also feels like a workaround from a world where you cannot just control the live working session itself.

That is the part I do not understand. Claude already has the model quality. It should be the best product for remote agentic work too. Instead the experience is split between Chat, Code, Cowork, and Dispatch, and the user has to think about which surface is the right one.

For me the ideal flow is simpler: one local session doing real work, visible and controllable from anywhere.

If Claude gets that right, the product would finally match the quality of Opus.

This is my second month of using Claude Cowork, and even though it has improved my productivity overall, it’s very clear that it could be so much better. It feels handicapped. This whole handoff thing is super weak.

How do I get started? I have connected things into Obsidian and have most things in there. Trying to get more out of cowork. I am a business executive who is responsible for overall strategy for our customers and field sales team so relevant use cases would be where I would focus on.

Any guidance, posts, youtube videos, would be helpful.

thanks so much in advance.

I wanted to do some project file location re-arranging, moving from OneDrive to GoogleDrive. Created the new location, copied the files, added the new folder to the Project (shows under context along with original). Updated spaces.json removing the original folder, restarted CoWork.

New chats - work without issue.

Existing chats - none of them work in that they can not access the new folder location. They are in effect 'orphaned'. I verified this with Claude (response below). Is there not a method to do this that doesn't have this issue with existing project work?

https://preview.redd.it/lm51fgzss52h1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7e9804f075da7e5622c5d15e097e41c8a5b05fc

Hey everyone,

I’m currently managing 4 different websites, and honestly, I'm losing my mind a bit with the regular Claude chat.

The main issue is that it just forgets everything. I feel like I'm stuck in a loop where I have to spend the first chunk of my day re-explaining the context, the tone, and the specific instructions for each site over and over again.

I was looking into Claude Cowork and wondering if it's the optimal way out of this. My idea is to create a dedicated folder/workspace for each of the 4 sites, load them up with their specific custom instructions, docs, etc.

Is this workflow actually better than fighting with the regular chat interface? Does it reliably solve the context-loss issue?

(Just a quick heads-up: I'm not looking to use Claude Code right now, I just want to know if Cowork is the sweet spot for keeping these project contexts isolated and persistent).

Would love to hear from anyone using a similar setup! Thanks.

I have started working as a freelance to provide services of developing landing page according to brand language and I would love to work with people please dm me for my portfolio

My last project was mymentallyprepare

been using claude skills for a while now and a few things tripped me up that i didn't see mentioned anywhere so putting them here.

the description field is everything. i kept building skills that weren't triggering and every single time it came back to a vague description. claude reads that field to decide whether to load the skill or not. if it's too generic it never fires, if it's too broad it fires when you don't want it to. i spent way more time than i should have tweaking the actual instructions when the real problem was one sentence at the top.

there's also a 200 character limit on that field. roughly two sentences. if you don't know it exists you'll write something longer, it gets cut off silently, and the skill behaves unpredictably.

a few other things worth knowing:

if your skill isn't triggering after upload, check if code execution is enabled in settings. custom skills need it on. wasted time debugging a perfectly fine skill because of this.

disable-model-invocation in the frontmatter does nothing on Claude AI web interface. it's claude code only. if you add it thinking it'll stop auto-triggering on the web it just silently ignores it.

when zipping the skill, zip the folder not the contents. loose Skill MD at the zip root doesn't work. the folder needs to wrap it.

and skills vs projects, worth being clear on before you start building. skills load automatically across every conversation. projects are scoped to one ongoing context. people mix these up and then wonder why behavior is inconsistent.

I just posted about how cool it was that Claude has a Function Health connection. Well, buckle up, cause this is insane.

I was most interested in some conflicting expanded heart panel numbers. Claude had the best analysis of everyone who had tried (Function clinician, 2 cardiologists). Awesome, had some actionable insights I could implement immediately.

One number, though, hs-CRP, it flagged as contributing and potentially causing other issues asked if I wanted to dig in. I said Yes! because my other biomarker testing from Choose Health, which is just 6 markers every quarter that I've been doing since 2020, showed last summer/fall my hs-CRP jumped for both me and my wife and we were struggling to understand why.

We tried different lifestyle changes to affect the number and nothing was having a big effect. We were so stumped. How could it go from essentially zero for both of us for 3-5 years, then jump to 'elevated' (1.5-2.5) last summer/fall, and stay that way until now.

So Claude and I did some troubleshooting with other Function Health results, running through potential issues. One of the 'less likely' was environmental. But all of the higher risk ones checked out as not the cause through other FH blood results. So, Claude asked, has anything changed about your house or work in the last year?

It clicked. We had an HVAC air handler replaced last summer. For a few months now, occasionally when the downstairs A/C kicked on, there would be a faint musty smell. I knew it could be something in the ductwork, but also knew it was a big project to find out. Last month I found my son sleeping in another room. I asked what's going on he said there was a leak and the dripping was keeping him up.

Ummmm, first, always notify me of water leaks anywhere immediately, kid. haha I inspected, saw it was likely from the air handler above his room. Go up to inspect and the secondary drain pan was completely full and overflowing. Checked the secondary drain first to triage the issue and realized the HVAC company never hooked that up. Not great. Then checked the main drain line. it was clean. water flowed fine. Very weird! I also noticed that water was dripping into the secondary pan from the corner of the main housing body. I thought there was like a direct overflow to secondary connection, but I'm no HVAC specialist.

Opened up the main housing and found that the main drain pan was mostly empty. Very confusing. the drain line worked, but it was slightly higher than this drain port on the other side of the drain pan that seemed to just go out into the main housing body. Pressed on the bottom insulation and it was completely saturated with water. Ok, got it, gotta plug that other drain port and probably fix the leak. tried some styrofoam laying around, I think taht was probably mediocre. A week later went back and insulation still wet so got caulking to do a good job with it.

So, leak fixed. I just moved on, really. Until Claude troubleshoot. When was this air handler replaced? Last summer. When did symptoms start? Last summer/fall. For two people in the house, at the same time. This air handler leak was causing systemic inflammation, probably in all of us, but verified by Choose Health/Function Health in two of us.

Claude & Function solved a health problem caused by air quality in the house caused by a defective installation of an air handler. So crazy!

I've seen posts about using chat for brainstorming and prompt creation for cowork, but in my experience cowork is great for that too. I try to be clear what I want to be done. Ask to create plan and then prompt for the task and then leave the unclear things for me to confirm. Even if the documents and source is large(multiple pdfs each 10+pages)it still capable of creating good outputs. And I don't use opus for that. Sonnet is great with creating the prompt and then execution.

I've only started using Claude especially cowork and I'm still new but if task is clear Claude is best for doing the job and if not clear just asking and figuring out on the way works too.

Also I've been reading courses from Claude and that helped a lot too.

If u guys have other tips I'm glad to hear.