Copilot Cowork Custom Skills: Here's What I Found
I tested Copilot Cowork custom skills for a week. The docs make setup look simple, but there's undocumented behaviour, built-in skill conflicts, and a persistence gap vs Claude Cowork.
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I tested Copilot Cowork custom skills for a week. The docs make setup look simple, but there's undocumented behaviour, built-in skill conflicts, and a persistence gap vs Claude Cowork.
I started using Claude Cowork about three weeks ago. Most of the coverage is by devs, written for other devs. I'm not one. I'm a non-developer who builds personal AI infrastructure (automations, skills, pipelines) using Claude and n8n. Cowork changed what I can delegate. What Cowork
Claude just got memory. Free for everyone, from March 2026. It remembers your name, your preferences, your writing style, and your recurring projects. If you've spent the last two years re-explaining yourself at the start of every AI conversation, that friction is mostly gone now. But there'
I'm not a developer. I used to be a chef. About four years ago I made a fairly random career change into IT and ended up as a team leader doing Microsoft 365 architecture. I mention this because it matters for what follows. Everything in this stack was