r/ClaudeCowork

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.

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?

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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 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

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.

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.

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.

Claude AI meetup in Frisco this week had an awesome turnout from people all across DFW.

Lots of discussion around workflows, agents, automation, and real-world Claude use cases. Really cool seeing builders, founders, engineers, and AI enthusiasts connecting in person.

Next up we’re hosting an meetup in Fort Worth focused on AI coding agents, workflows, and hands-on demos.

After that we will be at the Spark in Arlington (Choctaw stadium)

Feels like the DFW AI community is growing fast.

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.

One of my mentors asked me why we have not switched completely to create a healthcare app using AI tools. I tried to explain to him why we still need skilled tech developers to create secure architecture and data storage/transmission/encryption to ensure app is hipaa complains with no data leaks and comprehensive data logs.

May be I am behind understanding AI capabilities and such in old ways of implementing tech. I would learn from experts who are using AI and think it can now build secure and complex platforms for regulated industry like healthcare.

Has anyone tried building applications with code generated by using ai and hosted on secure cloud platforms for healthcare? Thanks!

Am I going crazy or doing something wrong here? All I asked was for cowork to go through a folder with around 7 pdf documents in a folder (average 7 pages each), and create a quick slide presentation. Should it really be eating up this much tokens? Feels like something has happened to since their update against the programmatic use of claude.

Hello community,

I want to build a resume for each job that I want to apply. I downloaded Claude desktop version, the free plan.

My question is what is the best Claude skills to download for the perfect resume & a career consultant giving a Brutal opinion no matter the job posting.

Thank you all for suggestions.

I know meta is releasing an ads MCP with a full rollout by the end of May, but hoping to safely search insta content without just using the browser extension. Any recommendations? Thank you in advance!

I was trying to connect all my social channels to drive registrations for the AI x Marketing Summit (May 28–29 in SF) using Claude Code. Thought I’d share how it went in case anyone else is going down this rabbit hole.

Here’s what I ran into:

• Luma – surprisingly the easiest to set up
• Twitter/X – ran into a bunch of credential issues
• LinkedIn – couldn’t get a direct connection working
• Reddit – had to create a Reddit app first
• Apollo – easy to connect, but not very useful after that
• Instagram – absolute pain via MCP, especially if you’re not active on Facebook
• TikTok – pretty straightforward
• YouTube – also easy through Composio - didn't even try going direct
• Substack – haven’t set this up yet
• Humanic – using this for email

Eventually landed on Bright Data + Composio. That combo worked well for Twitter and Reddit (super smooth), and somewhat for LinkedIn.

Big takeaway: a lot of MCP servers are still pretty limited and harder to set up than expected.

Curious if anyone else has found a cleaner stack for managing cross-platform posting?

Anyone know how I can solve this problem? I’m trying to create a live artifact that reads a certain tab in a Google sheet but Claude claims it can only read the first tab. It’s a shared company sheet and I can’t just make my needed tab the first one. I tried providing the specific URL to that tab and Claude still can’t do it. I have the Google Drive connector on and connected the specific sheet, it just can’t read a tab that’s like 10th in a multi tab sheet. Anyone encounter this and have a workaround? It’s not an option to download as excel since it’s to be live. Thanks!

been using claude design for a few weeks now and figured i'd dump some notes here before i forget. nothing groundbreaking, just stuff that took me way too long to figure out on my own.

first thing nobody tells you: do the design system setup BEFORE you build anything. i spent my first session prompting "build me a landing page for X" and got the most generic ai-looking output you can imagine. then i actually uploaded some brand stuff, let it extract tokens, approved them, and suddenly everything after that looked... like a real product? same prompts, totally different result. the docs say this but i skimmed past it like an idiot.

second thing. it eats tokens. like, a lot. it's on a separate weekly budget from regular claude chat and claude code which is nice in theory but if you're regenerating stuff over and over in chat you'll burn through it. the refine controls (inline comments, direct text edits, sliders) use way less than re-prompting. once i started using those for small fixes instead of typing "actually can you make the padding bigger" in chat, my budget lasted way longer. i'm on max 20x and it's mostly fine, on the $20 plan you'll feel it fast.

also re: animations. they're live react components running in the browser, not video files. You can download standalone html file and upload to claude2video it will generate mp4 video from that.

honest take on where it fits in the landscape since people always ask: it's not killing figma. figma is still better for any real design team workflow, devmode, multi-person collab. v0 and lovable are still better if you want to skip design entirely and just spin up an mvp with auth and a db. where this thing wins is the loop from "i have an idea" to "working prototype" to "claude code builds the actual app from it". the design system carrying through to the shipped code is the part that's genuinely different.

if you're a solo founder or pm or someone who keeps getting stuck between figma mockups and a real thing you can show people, worth learning. if you have a design team and a real component library already, probably overkill.

it's a research preview btw so half of this might be wrong in two months.

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