First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent

Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by throwup238 on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:09AM (#46643182)

> (On skills, I think that the reason why there "aren't good examples out there" is because most people just have a stack of impromptu local setups. It takes a bit of work to extract those to throw them out into the public, and right now it's difficult to see that kind of activity over lots of very-excitable hyping, as you rightly describe.

Very much this. All of my skills/subagents are highly tailored to my codebases and workflows, usually by asking Claude Code to write them and resuming the conversation any time I see some behavior I don't like. All the skills I've seen on Github are way too generic to be of any use.

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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by ChanderG on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:38AM (#46655613)

I thought skills were supposed to be sharable, but (a) ones that are being shared openly are too generic and not useful, (b) people are writing super specific skills and not sharing them.

Would strongly encourage you to open-source/write blog posts on some concrete examples from your experience to bridge this gap.

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