When Skills Aren't Enough
Skills give AI a set of instructions to follow — and instructions can be ignored. This essay maps Anthropic's dynamic workflows against a real writing checklist, tracing six structural gains from determinism to reproducibility.
The Fork in the Road: Claude Code vs CoWork
Claude Code and CoWork share a codebase but diverge sharply — local vs managed-VM execution shapes resumability, attachability, and autonomy.
Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork marks Anthropic's pivot from chatbot to agentic AI: a productized Claude Code that plans, executes, and delegates tasks through sub-agents in a sandboxed Micro-VM environment.
Claude Skills, Commands, Agents toward a unified mission
This article traces the evolution of Claude's Skills, Commands, and Agents, analyzing the fundamental tension between intent-matching intelligence and explicit-command reliability, and arguing that their merger points toward compositional AI behavior.