---
feature_id: FTR-20
title: Cowork Integration
category: Continuity
optional: true
depends_on: [FTR-06]
registry_refs: [2.12, 5.18]
---

# Cowork Integration

## What this is
A workflow for offloading a focused single task to Cowork and bringing the result back cleanly. The agent builds the Cowork starting prompt in the current conversation (including the explicit drop-folder path), the user runs it in Cowork, and the output lands in `#drop\` for the agent to sort and integrate.

## Assess first
- Confirm the canonical path and `#drop\` folder are established (from File Storage & Transfer). Cowork output must land in the canonical `#drop\`.
- Check whether `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md` already has a COWORK INTEGRATION section.

## Ask, only if needed
Nothing to ask at install time — proceed directly to Write. (At use time, the agent offers to draft the Cowork prompt before the user switches tabs.)

## Write
Add this section to `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md`, substituting the canonical path:

```
◆ COWORK INTEGRATION

Cowork is a focused single-task production environment. Build one thing,
bring it back.

When a task is being offloaded to Cowork, build the starting prompt HERE
before the user goes anywhere. Offer: "Let me build your Cowork prompt —
paste once and it runs."

A good Cowork prompt includes:
- Specific task and output format requested
- Entity name, brand style, document type, tone
- Any data or content needed (include it in the prompt)
- Drop folder path — always stated explicitly in the prompt

Drop folder (state this in every Cowork prompt):
  Save output to: [canonical path]\#drop\

Full workflow:
1. Agent drafts the Cowork starting prompt in this conversation
2. User copies the prompt -> opens Cowork -> pastes -> produces output
3. Output saves to [canonical path]\#drop\
4. User returns: "I brought back [item] from Cowork — it's in #drop"
5. Agent retrieves, sorts, assigns track ID, updates the tracker

Always use the same working directory: [path]. Files from Cowork must land
in the canonical path #drop\.
```

## Confirm
Confirm: Cowork Integration is installed — the agent will assemble your Cowork starting prompt (with the drop-folder path baked in) and pick up whatever you bring back into #drop. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?