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I use Claude every day, but the most useful thing I’ve connected it to lately wasn’t code, documents, or PDFs, it was my meetings. I’ve been using Bluedot to capture transcripts, summaries, action items, and recordings, and the Claude integration made all of that searchable. The biggest surprise was how often I go back and ask about a conversation from weeks ago instead of trying to remember where I wrote something down.

What data source has made the biggest difference for you? Meetings, documents, email, knowledge bases, or something else?

I'm not a developer. I've been using Claude Code for a few months now to build small apps and I've enjoyed it more than I expected.

The part I like most is that it works on my actual machine. It reads my project files, picks up my [CLAUDE.md]( and I've built up a pile of skills and slash commands living in `~/.claude`. All of that just loads.

A lot of my work isn't coding though. Writing, advocacy, committee work, that sort of thing. No repo involved. On paper that sounds like exactly what Cowork is for.

But I can't work out what I'd gain. As far as I can tell Cowork sessions run in the cloud by default (although you can point it to a project folder), so they never see my local skills, only the ones enabled on my [claude.ai]( account.

The Cowork cloud versus local thing confuses me most. Same app, two doors. I'm never quite sure which one I'm actually in. Sometime it feel like it doesnt read my files.

So if you do mostly non-coding work, is there something Cowork does better that I'm missing? eg in writing or brainstorming?

Also I've thought to point both to the same folder and let Code and Cowork access it and experiment with that. Good or bad?

Hello!

I recently started using with opencode and Claude Code and I am quite happy with it except that i cannot use Vterm-Copy mode for Claude (I can for other AI agent CLIs). I was wondering what options do you recommend for Claude specifically, for instance, I have seen that provides a much deeper Emacs-Claude connection but I have not tried it yet.

Any thoughts and recommendations? Thank you in advance!

You can tap “share” in Design then just copy paste the prompt they give you into Claude Code

Get control over your design while you’re burning tokens (Design especially goes thru limits fast)

My default is basically:

• have a project in GitHub
• connect Claude Code to that repo
• use Claude Code web version

But I keep seeing people mention completely different workflows.

Where do you run Claude Code most often? Local terminal...VS Code/Cursor...Codespaces/devcontainer...Replit/Lovable...Claude Code on the web...SSH'd into another machine...something else?

My favorite is honestly the desktop app

Mine, MIT. Installs as a Claude Code plugin:

then npm install, npm run seed, npm run smoke in the plugin directory. The smoke check is read only and spends nothing.

I am currently using Claude Code and recently added ChatGPT as another AI subscription for my workflow

I use both Claude Max 20 and ChatGPT through their subscription services not through APIs

While looking through Users I have seen several different approaches

Some people use Claude and ChatGPT separately in different CLI environments

Others use Claude and ChatGPT together in the same CLI conversation or agent environment through multi-model tools

I have also seen people separate responsibilities between models when using independent environments

For example some workflows use Claude Opus or Fable for planning and architecture

GPT Terra for reviewing and challenging the plan

And GPT Luna for implementation tasks

I am curious about how people are actually structuring these workflows

One question I have is how people are using both Claude and ChatGPT subscription services together in the same CLI conversation or agent environment without using APIs while staying within Claude's usage policies

Does using both models in the same environment improve actual efficiency or is it mainly for convenience by keeping everything in one place

For people who use separate CLI environments how do you usually structure the roles between each model

For those using both Claude and ChatGPT what role structure works best in practice whether they are used in the same CLI environment or separate CLI environments

I would like to hear how people using both Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions are building their workflows

I just made a simple skill to make claude use codex cli

Work good enough for me

You gotta try Paseo ( It’s an orchestrator for coding agents (supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more) has a mobile app for code on the go, and is open source. The UX is amazing! I chose it over Conductor since because of the mobile app.

I’m not a contributor; just a fan spreading the word.

Local terminal (using Ghostty app). Sometimes Claude extension in VS Code

I've been using Claude Code over the past few months and wanted to try it without paying for API usage upfront, so I experimented with using a third-party API provider instead of Anthropic directly.

The setup was pretty straightforward:

• Sign in to the provider.
• Generate an API key.
• Configure Claude Code to use that key.
• Start coding.

On my account, I also received promotional API credits after signing in with an eligible GitHub account (mine is over 4yo and has public repositories) smh it worked in my case.

So far I've used it for:

• Building small automation scripts
• Learning Claude Code workflows
• Testing MCP integrations
• Exploring agent-based coding

The experience has been surprisingly smooth, although I haven't stress-tested it on large projects yet.

A few questions for people who have been using Claude Code longer:

• Have you noticed any difference in latency compared to Anthropic's own API?
• Are there any rate limits or reliability issues I should expect?
• Do you prefer using a third-party provider, or do you eventually switch to Anthropic directly?

I'd love to hear about your experiences, especially if you've been using this setup for production work.

I’m running out of Fable limits often and read some claims GPT behaving better when used in Claude Code due to system prompts, so I was looking for a way to use GPT within Claude Code.

Ideally I would be able to select Fable/GPT 5.6 sol in the main session to directly talk to and have it spin up Fable/sol/Opus/Sonnet/terra/luna/etc subagents depending on tasks using subscription usage (not API usage) from both providers.

These are couple ways I found from searching so far:

1. Use CLIProxyAPI to setup “claudex” alias that seems to replace requests routed to claude models to gpt models (recommended by Tibo, Codex eng lead 

2. Use litellm as a proxy instead (recommended by Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude code 

Couldn’t find official guide from claude docs for this like Boris recommended, but found couple relevant guides from litellm docs: 

My questions are:

1. Are there meaningful differences between those two approaches or are there other better approaches?

2. Boris noted “One challenge is there’s a lot of model-specific tool design and prompting that goes into building a good harness.” Did you find any challenge or inefficiency (because of Claude-specific tool calls/caching/guardrails/etc) using GPT models in Claude Code because of this?

3. How do you assign different types of tasks to different models? Different types of tasks could be split by domains like frontend/backend, security/performance/infra/UIUX or stages like plan/execute/review.

Also do you rely on Claude Code’s harness (like instructing to use X models in the skill/agents file) or do you include what models to use in each prompt?
If former, does Claude Code recognize and correctly use GPT models?

i run both subs too, and after trying the "one CLI, both models" route i went back to keeping them in separate environments. the multi-model tools work, but the moment you're pushing a claude subscription through a wrapper you're in murky territory with the usage policy, and honestly the integration wasn't buying me much — the handoff between models is a copy-paste either way, it's just hidden behind a nicer UI.

what actually made the two-sub setup pay off was splitting by *type of thinking* rather than by pipeline stage:

- chatgpt for anything generative and open-ended where i want a genuinely different prior — coming up with approaches, drafting something from scratch, the stuff where claude and i have already converged on a house style and i want to break out of it.

- claude code for anything that touches the filesystem and needs to be verified — building, running, checking against real output. it's the one with the tools and the repo context.

the framing that helped: they're not two workers on an assembly line, they're a second opinion. the value is that they *disagree*. if you use gpt purely as an executor downstream of claude's plan, you mostly just get a slower claude — the cheap-executor pattern only really pays off on bulky mechanical work, and you have to strip the "here's what i did" narration out of the report or it eats the savings.

one concrete win: having gpt review a plan claude wrote (or vice versa) catches a specific class of mistake — the confident-but-wrong assumption that a model won't question in its own context. same model reviewing its own work approved its own bug for me 4 times out of 5.

are you looking to save usage, or to get better output? because those two point at pretty different setups.

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 50 comments.

The overwhelming consensus is that for any serious work, you should be running Claude Code locally, either in the terminal or the desktop app. Sorry, OP, but the web version is seen as too disconnected from your actual dev environment (your files, your tests, your secrets) to be useful beyond simple questions.

Here's the breakdown of the most popular workflows:

• The Terminal Purists: This is the most popular camp by far. They run Claude directly in the CLI for raw power, scriptability, and integration with tools like tmux to manage multiple sessions. This gives the model direct access to run commands and debug in your real environment.
• The Desktop App Converts: A significant and growing group loves the desktop app's polished UI for juggling projects and its seamless remote control. Many have switched from the terminal and aren't looking back.
• The "God Tier" Workflow: One user shared a seriously advanced setup using a three-layer memory system with a git-backed Obsidian vault to store project decisions and context. This prevents the agent from forgetting why a choice was made, which is a common pain point.
• The Killer Feature: Regardless of their primary setup, almost everyone is using Remote Control to access their local sessions from their phone. It's the best of both worlds: local power, mobile convenience.

Been running CC through third-party providers too; a few practical notes on the questions you raised:

• Latency: usually fine, but the thing that actually bites is streaming + time-to-first-token. Some proxy providers buffer chunks or sit behind a queue, which makes the agent feel laggy and - worse - can mangle streamed tool calls. If a provider feels 'off', check whether it's streaming tool_use deltas cleanly before blaming the model.
• Compat: the real gotcha is tool-use / structured-output fidelity. CC speaks Anthropic-shaped requests, so the provider has to translate the tool schema exactly; the ones that reshape or drop fields make the agent quietly misbehave. Model-name/endpoint expectations and context-limit headers are the other common mismatch.
• Reliability: third-party pools have their own rate limits/retry behavior, and when they 429 or drop, CC only handles it gracefully if the error comes back Anthropic-shaped.

On the bigger point: bringing your own key is the right move for cost and for not being locked to one vendor's billing. The thing I'd add is to make sure the harness treats the provider as a swappable input - your key not baked into any saved state, your session + repo portable, switching providers not stranding the workspace. That's the difference between 'I bring my own bill' and 'I actually own the setup.' Own the key and the box, and the provider really is just a dial.

Curious which provider you landed on - the streaming/tool-call behavior varies a lot between them.