Cowork Desktop, Oct 8–15: Three Updates Fix Scheduled-Task Approval Waits, Overwrites and Edit Failures

Three desktop updates between October 8 and 15 mostly fix one thing: scheduled tasks misbehaving when nobody is watching.

Cora Mitchell · October 19, 2026

Between October 8 and 15, the Claude Desktop app shipped three updates (v2.31226.0, v2.37337.1 and v2.42304.0), and a large share of the Cowork fixes in the official changelog point at one place: Scheduled Tasks running when nobody is there.Oct 8: approvals and overwritesv2.31226.0 fixed four things. First, when a Scheduled Task reached a tool that the organization's approval policy marks "ask," it used to be skipped; now the run shows the approval prompt and waits, and a newer run of the...

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A fixed set of real tasks whose correct outputs have already been approved by a human, re-run after every prompt edit or model change so the difference between the old and new output shows whether the change actually helped instead of just feeling better.

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Ask Claude to write out the intermediate reasoning steps within a single reply, instead of jumping straight to the conclusion — you don't just see the answer, you see how it was derived, which means you can also see exactly which step went wrong.

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