cowork-vs-chat-demo

cowork-vs-chat-demo is a skill for Claude Code from EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A live comparison between Chat and Cowork that shows how the two ways of using AI differ. Chat usually responds within a conversation, while Cowork is presented here as an agent for carrying out tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating AI tools, comparing chat with agent-based work, and understanding Cowork before switching from another chat product.
Why use it?
It helps when you need to decide whether Cowork offers something different from chat tools such as ChatGPT or Claude Chat.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cowork-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Evaluating AI tools, comparing chat with agent-based work, and understanding Cowork before switching from another chat product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eaiconsulting/cowork-skills-library/cowork-vs-chat-demo
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library --skill cowork-vs-chat-demo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cowork-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,754 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00109 $0.01754
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00175

Measured 12d ago against content hash 662656e78623, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cowork-vs-chat-demo scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cowork-vs-chat-demo/SKILL.md · 147 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 147 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 662656e78623

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cowork-vs-chat-demo is a skill published in the GitHub repository EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library (25 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,754 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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