Claude Cowork instead of Code?

Michel Abood

20h • 💬 General discussion

First, thank you

@Jake Van Clief

and

@Bas Rosario

for all your hard work and generosity. Reading through this has definitely changed the way I interact with my AI.

I'm not a coder or developer, I run several companies and primarily do business development, strategy, and marketing. I live in Claude Cowork as it's portable across devices (I travel a lot for work and don't always carry my laptop). That said, I've built several time/money saving tools with Cursor and Claude Code as well as Antigravity and have a basic understanding of how to use AI.

On my machine, I have one top-level folder labeled AI, under which are all my different AI projects, each with its own folder. In the top level there's a Claude.md router which tells Cowork where to go and what to do. Each folder has its own Context.md and other markdown files. I am still building things out, and before I let the agent rummage around I had some thoughts.

My questions are:

-can I use ICM with Claude Cowork and give it restricted access to my folder structure on my machine?

-if you're not coding full-time, but rather designing tools for your companies, is it better to be in Code or Cowork?

-does each folder require its own Claude.md file to navigate any subfolders or behave in a certain manner?

Again, thanks for all your assistance, this is great stuff.

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Claude Cowork instead of Code?