If you are using Claude Code regularly, the right plugins can make a much bigger difference than tweaking prompts. The best ones do not just add features they improve how you navigate codebases, write cleaner code, automate repetitive work and connect Claude to the tools you already use. In this post, I have highlighted 5 plugins that stand out for improving productivity and making Claude Code a more capable development environment. Whether you are building AI agents, shipping products or experimenting with automation, there's likely something here worth adding to your workflow. 💬 Which Claude Code plugin has become essential in your setup? I would love to discover more from the community.

You can choose one AI company for the rest of your days. You may use any tool it creates—and any technology from companies it acquires. What are you choosing? No switching. No backup company. No “it depends.” Which AI ecosystem are you betting on for the rest of your days—and why?

In Part 1 and Part 2, we used 🐠 Dory and 🖖Spock to explain the difference between Chat and (Co)work. That leads to the next logical question: 🤔 Okay, but which Spock do I use—ChatGPT’s Work or Claude’s Cowork? Personally, I use and like both. The honest answer is that ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are built around the same core idea: Give the AI a goal, provide the right context, and let it complete the work. Both can research information, analyze files, create documents, build spreadsheets and presentations, use connected tools, and work through assignments involving several steps. The meaningful difference is where each one feels most at home. Claude Cowork: Best When Your Work Lives in Files and Folders Claude Cowork is especially comfortable when your work lives in files and folders. You can connect a folder on your computer and ask Claude to: - Read and compare several files - Edit or create documents - Rename and reorganize files - Build spreadsheets and presentations - Research missing information - Deliver the finished materials for your review It can work directly with the material inside that folder rather than requiring you to open each file, copy the information into a conversation, and direct every step. Claude Cowork is no longer limited to the desktop. Cowork sessions can also run remotely and be accessed through web and mobile as availability rolls out (more on that later). However, its ability to work with selected local folders remains one of its most recognizable strengths. Claude can also use connectors and plugins: A Claude plugin can package skills, connectors, and sub-agents into a reusable workflow. When a direct connector or tool is not available, Claude can use your computer by navigating applications, clicking, and typing. ⚠️ Note: Claude Cowork requires a Pro level subscription. ChatGPT Work: Best When Your Work Lives Across Connected Apps ChatGPT Work is especially comfortable when your work is spread across connected business tools.

Since I started using Claude Cowork more regularly, I noticed something strange: My creative writing seemed to suffer. The ideas were still there. The information was accurate. The structure was often better. But the writing felt more formal, organized, and buttoned up. It did not always sound like me. So I asked Claude Cowork: “Why does my creative writing seem to suffer in Cowork compared with Chat?” The answer helped me realize that I was not necessarily using the wrong AI. I was using the wrong environment for that stage of the work. Chat is Dory. 🐠 It follows ideas wherever they go. It: explores, wanders, changes direction, and occasionally stumbles into something unexpectedly good. That makes Chat especially useful for brainstorming, finding your voice, testing language, and developing an idea before you know exactly where it will end. Cowork is Spock. 🖖 It wants the facts, the files, the instructions, and the desired outcome. It is, more structured, logical, organized, and focused on completing the assignment. In other words: Chat is often better for finding the voice. Cowork is better for turning that voice into finished work. Neither one is better. They are simply better at different stages of the process. My current approach is simple: - Use Chat to discover what I want to say. - Use Cowork to organize, refine, research, and complete the work. The mistake was expecting Spock to think like Dory. In Part 2, I will look at why Chat and Cowork feel so different from a feature and product-design perspective.

With agents, the technology is rarely the hard part. The imagining is. Clients and prospects simply cannot picture what happens inside the individual steps. Planning, calling a tool, checking the result, going back when something is missing, handing the draft to a human for approval. From the outside it looks like a box that spits out text. And yet those steps are where the entire value sits. So here is my question to you: how do you make that visible? How do you visualise the way an agent works so that a client really gets it? What I would love to know: 1. Which format worked for you? Something to click through, a short video, a live demo, 2. What did you build it with? 3. At which point did it click for the client? Every idea and every screenshot is welcome.