r/ClaudeCowork

Am I the only one that thinks Cowork artifacts are kinda dumb as is?

You can't publish them and you can't access them from mobile. You also can't share them. You can only save them as PDFs. A PDF of an artifact that takes input is useless.

My dumb hack to be able to use my artifact on my phone is to ask Cowork to generate an HTML app, which I then have to manually send to myself to open it in a browser on my phone.

Is there a better way to do this?

Would be great if you could just publish Cowork artifacts to claude.ai where you or anyone with the URL could access it.

Hi there,

Does anyone know how to get claude cowork to actually send emails? I know there is a way to get it to create drafts but everytime I ask it to send it says that it is unable. Is there a way to just give it access to my email and have it directly send emails without me having to press send within drafts each time?

Thanks

Back in October 2025, Simon Willison (who built Datasette and is one of the most reliable technical voices in AI) called Claude Skills "maybe a bigger deal than MCP." That's a bold claim. In this video I break down why I agree with him.

What we cover:
→ What a Claude Skill actually is (it's just a markdown file)
→ The token math that makes Skills dramatically more efficient than AGENTS.md
→ Skills vs MCP - they're not competing, they're different categories
→ How to build your first skill in 4 steps (takes ~30 minutes)
→ How skills self-improve over sessions - unlike prompts
→ Chaining skills into full automated workflows
→ Where skills fit in your full agent stack

Full article with code examples and diagrams:
https://medium.com/p/3d706ba52044

Also check out my article on OKF - the missing piece for AI agents:
https://medium.com/@AkhilAIWorld/google-just-quietly-released-the-missing-piece-for-ai-agents-its-called-okf-7e96a33898ce

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In short, I have a file that is 5GB

• Cowork Folder
  • Source Folder
    • 5GB File

I'm telling Claude to create a Destination Folder and copy the 5GB file to the new folder to end up with something like this:

• Cowork Folder
  • Source Folder
    • 5GB File
  • Destination Folder
    • 5GB File

These folders are on the same drive, so it's not copying to a new drive or anything. I tried it manually and it works. It's not instant, but it only takes a few seconds.

Trying to get Claude to do it gives errors. It's saying its attempting to use rsync but the write speed is going at ~9MB/sec so it'll take about 10 minutes. But the process stops when about 400MB of data is copied. Actual messages below. Any tips on why this copy/paste isn't working?

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Let me kick off the video copy:

Used 4 tools

Used 4 tools

The temp path works fine for writes. Let me rsync the video directly to TEMP_VIDEO.mp4 — that path is clean:

Used 2 tools

Used 2 tools

The copy is running in the background on your machine (rsync's temp file .TEMP_VIDEO.mp4.dICpTg is at 400 MB and growing). It's writing at ~9 MB/s to the real Windows filesystem — the 5.3 GB will take roughly 10 minutes total. Let me monitor progress and finish up when it's done.

Loaded tools, used a tool

Loaded tools, used a tool

Let me check if the rsync copy finished yet.

Listing files on your computer

Listing files on your computer

The rsync was killed by the timeout at 400 MB. Let me resume it with --partial so it picks up where it left off — and run multiple back-to-back passes until it's done.

Used 3 tools

Used 3 tools

rsync starts fresh each time instead of resuming. I'll implement a resumable chunked copy in Python instead — each 45-second pass saves progress to a state file and the next call picks up where it left off.

Hey, I tried building a cowork project and fed claude with a list of companies and their information like webiste, and other details. I asked Claude to visit the websites and check if it fits my client profile. Claude is not able to visit the websites even after switching ON all the netwrok access in Claude settings, also the claude in chrome is not helping either. Any help?

As a heavy Cowork user for knowledge work and non-technical tasks, I want to learn transition to Code (web/desktop app). For a novice like me as I learn technical way -- any useful straightforward steps I can refer to based on actual experience and learning curve?
Need your honest and desirable advice to setup Code (am using mac mini m4).

Thanks y'all!

First thing that comes when searching is cowork used directly in drives like one drive, corrupts the disk storage. Is that true? Can someone speak from experience?

Has anyone been able to turn cowork into a conversational assistant like you can with a normal web chat or mobile phone app chat?

I have a product concept of a completely voice-activated organisation, where Claude knows your brand, brand voice, what the company does, all the company intelligence stored in Claude.

Everybody works with a single view ecosystem touchscreen. An interface is verbally with Claude to get everything done.

I have the branded documentation skill set up, so all documents are created in Claude, on brand, in the brand voice looking the same.

The interactive ecosystem view of what’s going on in the business, outstanding actions, current projects etc. All set up.

Connections to document management, email data sources etc sorted out.

So I’m almost there, but my last step is to fully voice communicate with cowork so it all comes together.

Any ideas how I can get that working?

Has anyone got a solid setup for accessing two different google accounts (mail and calendar) from the same Cowork project?
I've tried adding https://gmailmcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1 as a custom connector, but it says it already has it configured.

Any help - hugely appreciated.

TIA

Every tutorials I read advise to have a folder structure with md files for context about you, your company, claude.md files or memory.md files that Claude should be reading before anything.

Today I read (Ruben Hassid) saying this is now wrong and to turn about-me into a skill and forget about global instructions and folder structure, that it limits Claude’s creativity.

Thoughts? Anyone else saying that? Anyone not using global context files already?

Need help!! Anybody who experienced something similar? Its loading and loading but can’t be stopped. I already tried to stop it by task manager and several AI recommendations. Nothing worked. Loosing my data is not an option… thank you guys

Keeps asking for folder permissions and other permissions. Is that intended behavior? Anyone else experience this?

For the first time in many years I found myself needing to find a new job. I was using Claude Cowork to help me with aspects of the routine - searching jobs boards, tailoring resume/cover letters, etc, then I asked it to build a Kanban style board I could use to help me keep track of all the things.

Then I decided to turn it into a plugin and share, in case anyone else might find it useful.

There may already be other better solutions out there, not going to pretend like this is the best, and you may find issues, but I'm sharing nonetheless.

The one hard rule: it never applies for you. No auto-submitting, no blasting your resume out. It makes you faster and more thorough, but you stay the one who clicks submit.

Free, MIT-licensed, no accounts, no cloud. Feedback and PRs welcome — the automations are plain-English files, so you can tweak them without writing code.

👉 https://zaridan.github.io/job-hunt-hq/

If you use it and find it useful I'd love to hear from you. Hell, even if you use it and hate it, let me know so I can try and make it better.

And if you'd like to add anything to making it better, I've outlined how to contribute in the repo.

I have a word and PowerPoint template that I want to use across all sessions and all projects. If I put the templates in my root Claude folder and then try use it from one of my projects it says it cannot access the file. Does anyone know what location I can use to put these templates so that I don’t have to upload them into every project folder

It's entirely possible that everyone else knows this and I've just been an idiot for ages, but I recently discovered that asking Dispatch to do the tasks and having them run within Dispatch is the wrong way to use it. It's able to communicate with Co‑Work, show tasks that are currently running, find previous tasks, and chat.

You can tell it to give those tasks instructions, create new Co‑Work tasks that have access to all the available tools you have connected, and it will provide updates on how those tasks are running if you ask. It can generally manage your entire Co‑Work and chat installation.

Posting this for the idiots like me who thought dispatch was a simple siloed chat.

Now that Chat and Cowork seems to be merged on desktop (at least to some users), many of us now have duplicative projects across chat and Cowork that should be merged.

On a whim, I tried to move some of my chats from a Cowork project into the duplicate Chat project today and noticed some gray helper text in the move field that says "not available yet."

So I'm hoping this means that Anthropic has thought about this and will allow us to soon merge chats/cowork across duplicated projects into one project that can handle chat and cowork.

I guess we'll see.

Ok so not for every one and clearly you need to be careful and have a good backup. However, if you enjoy a risk and are not precious about your vault this pairing is quality.

So I set up a new project in Claude cowork and pointed to my Obsidian Vault.

I then asked it to setup a scheduled task.

The task essentially tells Claude to go and read the note we created called Vault Development every night (cheaper usage at night as well) and action it (I have given Claude permission to act without asking)

In this note I have a list of improvements, suggestions and Fixes.

Either Claude or myself have listed in it. Claude reads the files determines if it can make the changes without me and crack on with it.

It then crosses off the item and updates a change log and provides a summary of the work completed.

It also clean the note up of any crossed of items older than 3 day.

I am sure I am not the first to do this but I'd thought I'd share it.

I've seen others using Claude for automating SEO tasks, but I'm brand new to this area. Does anyone have experience or insights to share?