Plan Step 1. Builds the probe vehicle and the checklist; does NOT answer it.
The four questions all require the operator in a live Cowork session on this
Mac, and that is a fact about the measurement rather than a caveat: measured
2026-09-04, the session mode is not readable from disk (cowork_settings.json
carries only extraKnownMarketplaces; the desktop config carries
coworkNetworkMode and a trusted-folder list, neither states where a session
runs), and the other three each need a plugin installed in a live session.
The step's Verify is therefore RED on purpose and stays red until the operator
answers:
test "$(grep -cE '...' docs/cowork-probe.md)" = 4 -> exit 1 (0 of 4 matched)
Validated in both directions: a fully answered copy exits 0, a copy with three
of four answered exits 1. The gate can pass, so its failure means something.
Probe vehicle: jobbsok-probe, exactly four files under
tests/fixtures/cowork-probe/ -- manifest, skills/probe-versjon/SKILL.md,
.mcp.json declaring the stdio server probe-tools, and probe_tools.py (standard
library only). Smoke-tested from Claude Code: initialize handshake completes,
tools/list returns probe_ping, tools/call returns an interpreter version, an
unknown tool name is rejected. What is NOT verified is whether Cowork ever
starts it -- that is the question.
Archive is built from an explicit four-file include list, never zip -r over the
repo root; verified to contain no .git, STATE.md, .venv or .claude/ entry.
The degradation branch for each possible nei is written down now, before any
answer is known, so it is not decided under pressure later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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