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●2.1.269 — Prompt suggestions were being dropped for Japanese, Chinese, Thai and other languages written without spaces between words. That is now fixed●KB5124008 — After September's cumulative update, Windows 11 users report Cowork failing to mount any host folder at all. The VM still starts, which makes the cause hard to pin down●PUSH — Some cloud and Cowork sessions have git push rejected by the proxy before it reaches GitHub. Cloning still works, so it reads like a token permission problem when it is not●NEW — Adding more material made Projects answer thinner. Three questions we now use to decide which knowledge files stay●TOKENS — You cannot price a PDF before sending it: CountTokens does not accept document input. That leaves estimating from page count or extracting the text and counting that●CLEANUP — Before asking an agent to tidy up, separate the work that only needs reading from the work that needs writing. The order you hand over folders cannot be reconsidered afterwards●2.1.269 — Prompt suggestions were being dropped for Japanese, Chinese, Thai and other languages written without spaces between words. That is now fixed●KB5124008 — After September's cumulative update, Windows 11 users report Cowork failing to mount any host folder at all. The VM still starts, which makes the cause hard to pin down●PUSH — Some cloud and Cowork sessions have git push rejected by the proxy before it reaches GitHub. Cloning still works, so it reads like a token permission problem when it is not●NEW — Adding more material made Projects answer thinner. Three questions we now use to decide which knowledge files stay●TOKENS — You cannot price a PDF before sending it: CountTokens does not accept document input. That leaves estimating from page count or extracting the text and counting that●CLEANUP — Before asking an agent to tidy up, separate the work that only needs reading from the work that needs writing. The order you hand over folders cannot be reconsidered afterwards
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◉ Claude AI/2026-09-13Beginner

When Adding Files Makes Your Claude Project Answer Worse

You upload more material to a Claude Project and the answers get vaguer, not sharper. The cause is overlap, not volume. Here is a small script that measures how much your knowledge files repeat each other, and the three questions I use to decide what stays.

◉ Claude AI/2026-05-03Intermediate

Writing Effective Custom Instructions for Claude Projects

A practical guide to writing Claude Projects custom instructions that actually shape Claude's behavior — covering role definition, output constraints, and project-specific context sharing.

◉ Claude AI/2026-04-25Intermediate

When Claude Projects Won't Read Your Files — Catch the Cause Before You Upload

Your PDF is in the project, but Claude keeps saying it has no information. No error, just silence. Here's how to place the cause in one of three layers — index, file, or instructions — and a script that diagnoses the file layer before you upload.