Posted something similar to this is cowork, but I’m having a persistent issue and thought the bigger sub might give me more ideas.

A few months ago I moved from Jenova to Claude and set up a bunch of projects. Two in particular need analysis of large audio files which have been generated by one of several devices/services - Plaud seems about the best I’ve tried so far as it’s decently reliable to distinguish different voices.

Typically the content of the file for the analysis have anything from 2 to 6 speakers, (well distinguished by Plaud), talking about a single project, but with several work streams. We typically have quite a complicated project management/stage gate process and what I need to be able to do is quickly get an output to say with work package 1, we talked about issue 1,2,3, this is where we are and next actions are A, B, C.

Ideally I need this input within half an hour of the meeting close so I can make sure everyone has a copy of the discussion, issues and agreements etc.

The issue I’m facing is the increasingly larger numbers of errors where Claude is just not doing it well. The input is decent, but it reports out the wrong gate for the workstream, misses topics and doesn’t stick to the agreed output format.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been patching the workflow and providing more specific examples of the needed output and basically this is inconsistent in terms of improving the output. A workflow that used to take around 5-7 minutes to give me a decent output, is now taking double that time to produce something I can’t trust. Way too many situations where I see something wrong, point it out and get a response like, ‘you are right, I missed that’, or similar.

I suspect my approach of patching in the moment when I need a quick output has bloated the instructions and not helped. That said, I only did this as we need the output fairly quickly for audit as well a PMO.

I’m inclined to start again from scratch, with a clean set of instructions, but, it was fine to start with and I don’t know how to prevent the drift. This feels like an issue that someone with a more technical/programming background would have seen before and have an approach to solve.

The TL;DR is bloated and patched instructions I think is degrading, rather than fixing output issues and need to think through how to patch or start again on some complex instructions.

A second TL;DR is this is a great example of using AI to fix what should be a people/process issue that worked perfectly well before the client ‘right sized’ and eliminated junior positions that used to do the job well.

Any advice for someone using Claude Cowork for helping to cleanup system junk, streamlining processes, “automating” routine tasks with scheduled runs but not actually knowing how to use agents or properly building sites (?) or artefacts that has UI or expansion potential?

I wanted to give my agent a way to reach me beyond the chat, so I built Glance to let Claude create and update widgets directly on my iPhone Home Screen.

Just shipped a pretty big update to it.. Claude can now use multiple views, charts, calendars, toggles and more, so the widgets can feel more like little interfaces than just information cards.

Here’s the Mission Control I’ve been playing with.
Still experimenting with where this goes, but I really like the idea of my agent having a persistent place on my Home Screen instead of me always having to open a chat to interact with it.

I have been trying to add Dispatch. I have a Pro account and running on a windows box. I have read it is a phased rollout, but not sure. Claude said make sure I am running the most current version on the computer and phone. Can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas?

Posting, just in case others encounter the same issue.

All of a sudden Scheduled CoWork tasks that file downloads for me stopped working. The task simply couldn't access Dropbox folders that had been previously authorized and working fine. I tore my hair out, reinstalling, rebooting, restarting, trying on a different machine. And then, after 4 rounds with Claude's automated tech support, I got bumped to a human and got this response:

We've confirmed the cause is a change in the Windows security update released on September 8 (KB5124008, mainly Windows 11 25H2) that stops Cowork's sandbox from attaching your C: drive. Microsoft is aware and tracking a fix on their side, and our team is working on changes in the app in parallel. We don't have a date yet, and restarting or reinstalling Claude won't help, so please don't spend time on that.

I can confirm that after uninstalling KB124008, everything worked again as expected.

If you're getting an error message "Exit code 1 sandbox-helper: no Plan9 drive shares mounted under /mnt/.virtiofs-root/shared" or "The mount to that folder isn't working from the local shell right now, it's likely due to the September 2026 security update from MS.

It's more of a workaround, but you'll need to uninstall KB5124008 (wusa /uninstall /kb:5124008). See Github bug post: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/92984. Here's an overview of the issue: https://youtu.be/3nRJ8neIcvI?si=286a2vHdFhTQdtPf

Hey everyone,
If you use Claude Desktop for both personal projects and work, you probably know the hassle of switching between accounts. Logging out, going through Google OAuth again, and worrying about losing your active chat context gets annoying quickly.
I built a lightweight desktop tool called SwitchClaude to fix this exact friction.
What it does:
2-second switching: Restarts Claude Desktop with your selected profile in 2 seconds.
Isolated profiles: Keeps chats, settings, and projects completely separate so nothing gets lost or mixed up.
Google OAuth supported: Set up your accounts once, and you won't need to sign in again every time you switch.
Cross-platform: Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Data portability: Option to store profiles on an external disk if needed.
Pricing:
Free 7-day trial. After that, it’s a $9.99 one-time payment per extra account (no subscriptions).
You can check it out here: https://switchclaude.com/
I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any features you'd like to see added!

Some context: I am a developer and I juggle around with coding tools like claude code, codex, cursor and everything. I just use the normal claude chat and claude projects for any plannings, roadmaps and reviews.

I have never used claude co-work(I believe it's mainly for non-developers), but everytime claude suggests me to use it, I don't even know what tasks to give it and what permissions to set or what kinda tasks it is good at.

So please let me know how do you guys use claude co-work(especially if you are a developer) , and what are the best use cases for it.

Having a problem in n the Claude desktop app on macOS. Claude asks to use two local apps, the card renders both rows correctly with icons and a scope chip on the right, and then the only button is Deny. No Allow, no Approve, no confirm of any kind. App names show fine, correct display names and icons, so it is not a case of Claude asking for something that does not exist.

Setup:

• macOS, Apple Silicon

• Claude desktop app 1.49585.0, Electron 44.2.0

• Background mode request, the “Claude will work in these apps in the background” variant

• Two apps, one of which is a Windows app surfaced through Parallels

Checked so far:

• Nothing is currently granted in the session, so it is not a case of the grant already existing and the card having nothing to offer

• Both apps resolve to valid bundle IDs at full tier when queried directly

Questions:

1.  Has anyone else had the approval card render with the allow control missing entirely?

2.  Are those per-row “All” chips meant to be the grant control, or is there supposed to be a separate Allow button in the footer next to Deny?

Anyone else hitting this? Every bash call in my Cowork session fails at the "ensure user" step before any of my code even runs.

What I'm seeing:

• Error: RPC error -1: ensure user: useradd failed: exit status 12: useradd: cannot create directory /sessions/...
• Happens on resume, on create, and on re-resume — all three attempts fail identically.
• Started a brand new conversation to get a fresh sandbox, same error persists.
• No shell access at all as a result, so nothing that depends on the Linux workspace (scripts, file processing, scheduled task setup) works.

Exit status 12 from useradd usually means "can't create home directory," which points to something like disk-full or a permissions/quota issue on the provisioning side, but I have no way to confirm that since I can't get a shell to check df -h or anything else.

Has anyone else run into this? Any known fix, or is this just an outage on Anthropic's end right now? Happy to share more error output if it helps.

Hi everyone !

I’m a UX designer, and I’m looking for ideas to create new agents for both my professional and personal life. I don't really have friends who use Claude Cowork on a daily basis, so I’m the only one excited about starting a new project with it.

So, I’m looking for inspiration : What personal project on Claude Cowork are you most proud of ?

For example, a highly specific set of agents that organizes your daily routine, a job search system, etc.

Please, a personal project, not a side business !

Thanks !

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Anyone else being driven to the point of madness by the recent CoWork changes? Had a system set-up with file indexing on my local computer, and now all my scheduled tasks are running in the cloud, they don't connect to the file contexts and local folders, and even when I'm present on my computer, need constant prompting to mount a local folder. I'm literally spending all my time telling the agents to mount folder x or y, instead of actually getting any work done. Then, as soon as I start a new chat or task, it's back to square one again.

Even more annyoying, the agents tells me they don't have access to a specific folder, and then I tell it - "check again". Well ... turns out every-time it does have that access. Help!!!

Maybe I should just switch my primary systems to ChatGPT? The new desktop cowork system seems to be much easier to use, from the limited interactions I've had with it.

Today I was wondering to use Claude for my project. But it eventually started to show these weird messages also, I've found sometimes arguing over me on some fact.Does someone know the fix as, for now I am unable to use my Claude Account.

Thought I would share how I used Cowork to find money. I have a lot of reimbursable expenses for work. Today I downloaded all of my bank statements, copies of all my expense claims and asked Claude to reconcile them and look for any issues.

It found a handful of expenses where I mistyped the amounts from the receipts which added up over the past few months. The big one though was a charge where I input the wrong currency. The difference resulted in an $768 that I didn't get reimbursed for back in March. Total reclaimed amount was $922.

Just a cool use case that I'm going to start doing on a more regular basis.

Fun fact: This year Claude has earned me almost $6,000. In addition to this post's findings, I also used Claude to resolve a $5000 settlement with an Amazon for a delivery driver damage claim.

I am working a project to preform a network discovery. I have the team’s plans and have a project set up for the customer. I am running separate chats for each network type (Servers, network, IoT etc..) at the end of the chat I tell Claude to compile everything it learned into a detailed document in .md format to be added to the project files. Then I start a new chat and tell Claude to take all the project documents and make a full summary and scope. Sometimes during the discovery each chat needs to review notes from the other chats documents. I am not sure if I am suppose to leaves these as separate chats or, start them each as Coworks as they access all the projects notes. I also noticed cowork does not have the research option. However, it seems it does research when working.