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Cowork issues on macOS — page 2

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:macos and area:cowork.

819 issues · 138 open · 681 resolved (83%) · first seen Jan 15, 2026

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is converging. 179 new reports in the last 90 days vs 345 in the 90 before — -48%. The open backlog peaked at 194 in 2026-04 and sits at 138 today.

0 49 97 146 194 2026-012026-042026-072026-10
2026-01 — First reports2026-04 — Peak backlog (194 open)

Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published anywhere upstream.

Which builds report this

292 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 107 releases. Heaviest reporters:

Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.

Do these get fixed?

Median time to close is 34 days across 681 closures. Of the 681 closures with a recorded reason, 17% were closed as completed and 566 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-10.

Workarounds reported by the community

248 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:

[BUG] Google Drive connector shows connected but tools not exposed in Cowork
Workaround that resolved this for me (macOS, Claude Desktop, one login belonging to two workspaces: a personal one and a Team org). Symptom matched this issue exactly: Drive showed as connected in the UI, but no Drive to…
Found in the thread of #30457 · still open
[BUG] Cowork Can't add private GitHub marketplace
…ll org-internal plugin distribution through Cowork. The CLI workaround works but leaves teammates unable to install without terminal tooling.
Found in the thread of #28125 · still open
[FEATURE] Model switching for existing Cowork tasks within Projects
…des instead of fearing them. Alternative Solutions The only workaround I have found is manually copying persona instructions and key decisions into a brand-new task. This loses the live conversation history and the per-t…
Found in the description of #49649 · still open
[BUG] Cowork (Not Claude Code) 1M context window unavailable on Max 5x — regression from March 20
…ks has been broken since March 19 19:33 UTC. No client-side workaround exists. This requires a server-side fix.
Found in the thread of #37413 · still open
[BUG] Cowork: new projects lost "Choose a folder" — Context menu replaced with Chat-style upload-only knowledge menu after Chat/Cowork merge
…er-session and not persisted as project context — a partial workaround, not a substitute. <img width="1306" height="735" alt="Image" src=" / <img width="1306" height="735" alt="Image" src=" / What Should Happen? The Cont…
Found in the description of #76694 · still open

Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.

Matching issues 101–200

Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments). Listing the top 300 of 819 matches; the statistics above cover all 819.

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