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Stopping an Unattended Writer From Publishing the Same Article Twice
When a Cowork scheduled task generates articles every day, the real danger isn't a crash — it's quietly publishing a piece that overlaps with one from a few days ago. Here is a gate that compares slug similarity and the day's log before publishing, built from a near-miss I caught this morning.
Why Cowork's bash Says 'No Such File' When Finder Shows It Right There
Connect a cloud-synced folder to Cowork and bash sees empty placeholders while cat fails. Here is how on-demand materialization actually works, and the design patterns that keep your automations from silently dropping data.
Running Cowork Scheduled Tasks in Practice — From a Morning Digest to Unattended Weekly Reports
How to set up recurring runs, reminders, and automated reports with Claude Cowork's scheduled tasks — covering cron basics, prompt design that survives unattended execution, and how to schedule multiple tasks so they stay reliable.
Where the human still has to press the button — lessons from delegating ad ops to Cowork
From actually delegating repetitive ad operations — AdMob bidding-partner sign-ups and floor tuning — to Cowork, here is the boundary I found between what AI can fully own and the single moves a human still has to make by hand.
Rebalancing Interstitial Frequency in a Wallpaper App: Three Weeks of Trading Revenue Against Retention
I spent three weeks tuning only the interstitial frequency in a wallpaper app, watching where AdMob eCPM and next-day retention meet. Here is the quiet, unglamorous adjustment that actually moved things, with Claude in Chrome reading the dashboards alongside me each morning.
Localizing an App Store Screenshot PSD into 15 Languages Overnight with Cowork
A work log of localizing the store screenshots for the Android wallpaper app 'Beautiful Wallpapers' into many languages with Cowork: extracting text with psd-tools, pouring translations into layer names, and the real walls I hit with Thai and Korean glyphs.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Tune My AdMob Mediation Priorities
I let Claude in Chrome handle the reordering of AdMob mediation priorities for three weeks. Here is how I set the threshold, the three prompt changes that actually mattered, the numbers, and the parts I deliberately kept under human control.
Folding AdMob and Crashlytics into One Morning Check via Cowork Scheduled Tasks — Two-Week Notes
I had been checking AdMob fill rates and Crashlytics surges in two separate dashboards each morning. I folded them into a single Cowork scheduled task. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
When pip install Stops with externally-managed-environment in Cowork's Bash Sandbox — Three Patterns for PEP 668
Why pip install fails with externally-managed-environment in Cowork's Bash sandbox, and three practical fixes — --break-system-packages, venv, and pipx — written from real scheduled-task experience.
git clone Fails in Cowork Scheduled Tasks — Diagnosing /tmp Permission Errors and Disk Space Issues
When git clone fails with Permission denied or No space left on device in Cowork automated tasks, the root cause is often /tmp directory ownership or disk exhaustion. Learn how to diagnose both and apply a $HOME fallback pattern for reliable automation.
Claude in Chrome Not Working? A Practical Troubleshooting Guide
Buttons that do nothing, pages that never load, tasks that report success but change nothing. Symptom-by-symptom fixes, plus the 42-run log where adding waits and verification steps moved completion from 62% to 95%.
Why Cowork Scheduled Tasks Stop Mid-Run and How to Recover
Diagnose Cowork scheduled task failures using measured exit codes and real error output — why safe.directory delays failure instead of fixing it, how to pick a writable root before cloning, and how to structure logs with reason codes.