Workflow Articles
17 articles across AI Catchup's news, guides, tutorials, and comparisons.
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Cursor Projects Give a Coordinator Agent a Long-Lived Body of Work
Cursor's Projects beta moves beyond one chat at a time: a coordinator agent keeps context over months, delegates implementation and testing to subagents, shares research and artifacts across cloud and local machines, and can watch PRs, Slack, or a schedule for recurring work.
OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Now Uses Less ChatGPT Subscription Usage on Long Tasks
OpenAI executive Tibo says recent improvements to GPT-6 Astra reduce the subscription usage drawn by long-tail work for power users signed in with a ChatGPT account. The approved announcement claims up to 3–4x less usage and says there is no change in quality, but it does not publish implementation details, a new quota, or an API billing change.
Claude Computer Use Runs in the Background in Cowork and Claude Code
Anthropic added computer use to Claude Cowork and Claude Code in the Claude Desktop app. Claude can click, type, open apps, and use dev tools while you keep working on macOS, with Windows support also documented. The beta is limited to Pro and Max plans and still requires the desktop app to be open and the computer awake.
Claude Code Desktop Can Now Resume Sessions Started in the Terminal
Claude Code can now move a terminal-started session into the Claude Code desktop app. Anthropic says users can type /resume, choose a CLI session, and continue with the full conversation and context intact.
ChatGPT Appshots Bring Your Mac's Frontmost App Into a Chat
OpenAI's Appshots feature lets ChatGPT users on macOS send the frontmost app window to a chat. An appshot can include the visible image and available text, making it possible to hand ChatGPT context from an API reference, email, error panel, or other app without describing it manually.
Claude Cowork Gets a Built-In Browser: Web Tasks Without an Extension
Anthropic added a built-in browser to Claude Cowork on the desktop app. Claude can open webpages in a separate side-panel browser, read pages, click, type, and fill forms without using the user's own tabs or browser extension. The rollout covers Pro, Max, and Team plans, with Enterprise admin controls available first.
ChatGPT Voice Can Start and Steer Codex Tasks on Desktop, With Mobile Remote Access
ChatGPT Voice now provides a hands-free way to start, monitor, and steer Codex work. OpenAI says Voice can coordinate Codex tasks in the ChatGPT desktop app, while mobile access is available through Remote on iOS after pairing an iPhone with a desktop host. Voice conversations use the Codex task’s usage budget and require a new chat or task to begin in voice mode.
Claude Code Remote Control Can Start Sessions From Your Phone
As of August 2026, a machine running claude remote-control appears as a device card at the top of the Code tab in the Claude app: tap it, pick a directory, and a session starts on that machine. Anthropic's Week 34 digest also took Remote Control out of research preview. Code and files stay local.
Cursor Cloud Agents Add Event Triggers, Long-Lived Goals, and Isolated Subagents
Cursor says Cloud Agents can now pick up work from events, keep working toward a long-lived goal, monitor pull requests, watch Slack threads, run scheduled tasks, and launch subagents in isolated virtual machines. The same update adds skill-based Custom Modes and less disruptive steering while an agent is working.
Claude Code Desktop Adds Auto-Continue After Usage Limits
Claude Code waits in the open session and continues your task automatically when a claude.ai usage limit resets. It is on by default from version 2.1.234 in interactive sessions signed in with a claude.ai subscription. Turn it off in /config under 'Continue automatically at usage limit' or set autoContinueAtUsageLimit to false. It resumes work; it does not raise the limit.
ChatGPT Adds Interactive Quizzes and Restaurant Reservation Search
OpenAI has added interactive quizzes to ChatGPT on web and mobile for consumer and Edu plans, while restaurant reservation search is rolling out across ChatGPT plans on mobile, web, and desktop. ChatGPT can use your topic, location, date, party size, and preferences to help with each workflow.
OpenAI Launches Computer History for ChatGPT and Codex on Mac
OpenAI is rolling out Computer History in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. When users opt in, ChatGPT and Codex can use recent interaction events to build local memories and a timeline, answer questions about past work, and suggest skills or automations. The feature is off by default and includes app and website permissions, pause and delete controls, and a 48-hour temporary event-file window.
Claude in Chrome Sessions Now Continue Across Devices
Anthropic says Claude in Chrome sessions now carry over to desktop, web, and mobile. Conversations are saved to the user's account, while skills and connectors can work from the browser; Claude's current Chrome page lists the extension as available on all paid plans.
Cursor Cloud Agents Start Up to 3x Faster With Builds
Cursor says Cloud Agents can start up to 3x faster with Builds, ready-to-use copies of development environments prepared in the background. Builds keep agents on the latest successful environment, expose logs and version history in the dashboard, and are now the default path for every Cloud Agent environment.
Codex Can Import Workflows From Other AI Agents
OpenAI now lets the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex CLI import supported setup and recent work from other agents. The desktop app can import from Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Cursor, while Codex CLI supports Claude Code and Cursor, with automatic updates and import history available in the desktop app.
Claude Code Sessions Can Now Message Each Other
Claude Code lets independent sessions discover and message one another, with controls for holding, refusing, or approving incoming messages. As of August 2026, sessions can also start conversations with sessions on other machines or Claude Code on the web, and native Windows is supported; the August 7 launch allowed only replies across machines and covered macOS and Linux. Messaging is on with nothing to enable; a held message in a headless session now expires after five minutes by default.
Cursor Adds Side Chats: Durable Agent Threads You Can @-Mention Back Into the Main Conversation
Cursor introduced Side chats: separate, durable agent conversations that run alongside a main chat and can be @-mentioned to pull context back.