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What is Claude Dispatch and how to activate it to use Cowork on your computer from your mobile

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We are going to tell you what Claude Dispatch is, a new option for Claude that allows you to control your computer from your mobile. It is related to Claude Coworkand in fact it is like a remote control to control this artificial intelligence remotely. We are going to start by explaining what Claude Dispatch is, so that you understand what you can do with it and the implicit risks involved in using it. And then, we will tell you the few steps you have to take to activate it. What is Claude Dispatch Claude Cowork is a personal assistant to control your computer, a feature of the paid version of this AI. It is something close to a artificial intelligence agentwhich takes control of a folder on your computer or even your browser to perform the tasks you ask of it. laude Cowork is designed specifically for automate tasks with files and applicationsand manage the operating system of your local computer. It is available in the Claude desktop app, and also for users of the extension Claude in Chrome. Claude Dispatch is like a remote control for Cowork. Because Claude’s agent is only for the computer, so you can’t use it outside the home. However, this app allows you to ask it for things remotely to do on your PC. Come on, if you activate this function you can control Cowork on your computer from the Claude app on your mobileand thus do tasks even if you are not in front of your team. However, you must remember that using it can be dangerous if you’re not careful. Cowork is trained to be careful and ask permission with every step it takes, but you are always exposed to a malfunction that deletes files that it shouldn’t or performs online actions that you don’t want. And when you are not in front of your computer to control it, you have less possibility of preventing something from happening if the tool loses control. How to activate Claude Dispatch To use Claude Dispatch you only need activate the tool and have Claude on your mobile. To activate it, you have to enter the Claude application on your computer, go to the coworkand click on the option Dispatch that appears inside, in the left column. On this screen you will see a list of things you can do with Dispatch activated. In it, press the button Begin to start the activation process. First you will be asked to download Claude for your mobile, and then you will go to a screen where you will be able to activate the permissions that Cowork needs to operate remotely. It will ask you to install the browser extension, give it access to your files and keep your computer active when you have the app running, so that it does not go to sleep and stop what it is doing. When you have everything click on Finish Settings. And that’s it. When you finish giving him access to everything, you just have to enter the section Dispatch from the Claude app on your mobile. This will take you to the section coworkwhere you can request it to perform tasks on the computer. In Xataka Basics | The best AI agents that are faster and easier to use to do tasks for you without complications or long installations

What is Claude Cowork, how it works, and what things you can do with this AI assistant on your computer

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Let’s explain to you What is Claude Cowork and how does it work?one of the advanced tools of the artificial intelligence of Claude. It is an automation assistant for the computer, a kind of AI agent which you can ask to do tasks on your PC without you having to touch anything. Let’s start by explaining what it is so that you understand the concept. Then we will tell you how it works, to finish by giving you some examples of the things you can do with it. What is Claude Cowork Claude Cowork is basically a personal assistant with artificial intelligence Designed to work natively on your computer. This way, you can use Claude on your Windows or Mac PC to ask it to do things automatically. It has been designed above all to help you with the repetitive tasks you do in your daily life with files, folders and applications. Imagine being able to ask the AI ​​to do things like rename files in a folder, look for duplicates, or even give you summaries of the contents of these files. It is something similar to an AI Agent, but it is not exactly this. AI agents are capable of doing complex tasks for you, like booking a hotel. However, Claude Cowork is designed specifically for automate tasks with files and applicationsand manage the operating system of your local computer. So it doesn’t have as many features, but it does what it’s trained to do better. This tool is available in the Claude desktop appalthough only for paying users. This means that you always have it available. In addition to this, You can also give access to your browser to be able to ask it to do tasks on it or interact with web content, but for that you need to install the extension Claude in Chrome. How Claude Cowork works The way Claude Cowork works is very simple. You open the Claude application and go to the Cowork tab, and in there you ask him what you want him to do using natural language. When making the request, you will have to specify what you want, the folder where you want it done, and all the details you want. Here, you should think that you are asking a person for the task. If you want to change the name of the files in a folder, you will have to specify that you want to rename them, indicate what folder it is, and even the format, in case you want it to be “Year-Month-Name” or any other. Cowork has controlled access to your file systemso that you can decide and customize which elements you can touch and which ones you can’t. When you make a request you can even choose the folder where you want it to act. This tool will first process your text to understand what you want, and then will chain several actions to carry it out. It will be Claude’s own AI that will figure out the way he wants to do it, and if necessary because it doesn’t work, rectify it to do it another way. In the Claude app, within the Cowork section, you will be able to see step by step what it is doing this assistant. The AI ​​will ask you for permission on each piece of data, for example to rename files or connect to a tool, and you can always see the progress and stop it whenever you want. Lastly, you should know that you can use the connectors and extensions to link web services and applications on your computer and be able to do things in them. You can add your notes application, Spotify, or the messaging app among many others. But also web services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Trivago, WordPress, and many others. What you can do with Cowork The uses of this tool depend on many things, although there are a series of basic actions that you can know and that will save you a lot of time. They are the following: File management: Manage files in any folder, organizing downloads, renaming batches of files with specific patterns, moving documents between folders, finding and deleting duplicates, zipping and unzipping files, and more. Document processing: You can process various document types by extracting text from PDFs, converting files from one format to another, combining multiple documents into one, or extracting specific data from multiple files to create summaries. Automation of repetitive tasks: It can also help you automate tasks you do every day or week, such as preparing reports by putting together data from different files, creating folder structures for new projects, or making organized backups of certain files. Cleaning and maintenance: You can also ask it to do tasks like asking it to delete old files that you no longer need, clean up temporary folders, organize your photo or music library, or find large files that are taking up space. But these are just the basic features of Cowork, and you can get it to do many more things connecting it to cloud services, other applications, or installing the extension to use Chrome. To give an example, I have asked you to create a text file with the list of all the songs (more than 600) that I have in a certain playlist on my Spotify account. So Claude ran his Chrome extension, I could see it go to my Spotify account, I gave him permission to log in, he then looked for various ways to read the songs in the list (first a script and then using the mouse to scroll), and then he created the plain text document. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

The AI ​​Claude Code “only” programmed. With Cowork, Anthropic wants its AI to take care of everything else

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Claude Code has become a revolution for programmers, but at Anthropic they are not satisfied with that, and now they want their Claude family AI models to serve much more. And that’s why have created Coworka different agent, especially ambitious and who opens the door to fantastic options… if you trust him. What is Cowork. Those responsible for this project have taken the foundations of Claude Code and applied them to the Claude desktop application (for now, only the macOS one). But they have also done something equally special: giving Claude permission to access a specific folder on our computer and, from there, he can take control of those files and work with them as we want. Hello, robot-secretary. Instead of access to the “vibe coding” we will have access to a kind of “vibe working”. Thus, we can ask Cowork to do all kinds of operations with those files: If we have a folder full of disorganized icons, we can ask you to ordered them to us and reorganize them all into folders by file type or theme If there are a lot of photos of receipts in that folder, we can tell you to create an expense report If what we have is a bunch of digital voice or text notes, we can ask you to write a report summarizing and combining them all. If we have a folder full of podcasts, we can have it go through it, analyze it and summarize the top 10 points of all of them or transcribe them If you have all your financial trading and investment reports and data, you can ask them to create a final report for you. help you declare them If you have videos and want to find one of a squirrel and then convert it to another format, also does. Full autonomy. We are therefore faced with an AI agent capable of accessing our files, analyzing them and working with them to generate new information and useful content from all that data. And we only have to ask it with natural language, because the agent is capable of understanding it, asking us questions if it needs more details, and then solving the task autonomously even if it involves several steps. Cowork operates in a container. The way CoWork works allows you to grant permission to certain folders, but when the AI ​​operates on said files it does so in isolation. As explains Simon WillinsonClaude uses a virtual machine and downloads and boots a custom Linux file system to operate on those files independently and isolated, which theoretically guarantees that our files are theoretically safe and Cowork does not access anything that we have not given permission to. Connections to other apps. In addition to being able to work directly with your files, Cowork benefits from its ability to connect with other applications that you have installed on your computer. You can use ffmpeg to convert the squirrel video, Asana if you want to organize your notes into projects, or an office application if you need to create a spreadsheet. But we will have to trust. Willinson himself warns that these types of systems have the danger of someone “hacking” them with jailbreaking or prompt injection techniques that now become more dangerous because, as we say, what Cowork does is work on our files. And of course we have to be careful with the information and data we share with CoWork: those responsible for Anthropic themselves have a document to “use it safely“. Limited release. Cowork is available as a “research preview”, and is only available to users of the Claude Max subscription which costs between $100 and $200 per month. It is clear that at Anthropic they prefer to go step by step with a very powerful but also delicate feature if we do not use it with caution: in the end we are giving access to our files to an AI, and we know that AIs can make mistakes. An AI on your computer. This release from Anthropic points to what all AI agents that want to conquer our computer should theoretically point to. Since that Computer Use that Anthropic launched in October 2024, things have come a long way, and little by little we are getting closer to that future in which we will be able to work with our computer in a very different way than we did until now… if we want and trust AI, of course. In Xataka | Operator also “looks” at the screen and moves your mouse for you like other AI agents. It does it better thanks to CUA

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