# CRAFT Recipes

New Recipes:

What’s in the CRAFT recipe library

All current recipes, all current cookbooks, all updates to the public version. What they are, how they’re organized, and how to find the one you need.

A CRAFT recipe is a structured text file that turns a Claude Cowork prompt into a reusable, validated workflow. Recipes are versioned, named, and tested. The same recipe runs the same way in every project that uses it.

The library covers the full surface of Claude Cowork session work — starting a session, handing it off, validating output, transferring knowledge between projects, and generating content.

This page is the entry point. Browse the cookbooks below, scan the recipe anatomy, or jump straight to /craft-downloads/ to clone the public repo.


The cookbooks

Each cookbook serves a different layer of Claude Cowork work. Recipes live in exactly one cookbook — no orphans, no duplicates.

CAT-001 · CORE

CORE

Recipe-system infrastructure. Required by every CRAFT project. Session init, handoff, confidence calibration, COM monitoring, prompt intelligence, persona management.

Sample recipes CWK-001 Session Init · CWK-002 Handoff · CWK-018 Persona Manager

CAT-CWK · COWORK

COWORK

Claude Cowork session capabilities. CLAUDE.md generation, sub-agent orchestration, MPCS personas, cross-project knowledge transfer, brand kits, subproject lifecycle.

Sample recipes CWK-031 MPCS Orchestrator · CWK-026 Transfer Packager · CWK-040 Brand Kit Builder

Want the full catalog?

The complete recipe index ships with the framework in plain text. Clone the repo →


Anatomy of a CRAFT recipe

Every recipe in the library is built from the same five parts. Once you can read one recipe, you can read all of them.

01

ID and name

Every recipe has a permanent address (CWK-031, CWK-002) and a human-readable name (MPCS Orchestrator, Handoff). The address never changes. The name describes what the recipe does.

02

Purpose and when to use it

One sentence on what the recipe does. A second on the conditions that should make you reach for it. If the trigger isn’t there, the recipe isn’t the right tool — the framework prefers a clean “not this one” over a forced fit.

03

AI specification

A machine-readable section Claude parses on every run. Inputs, outputs, validation rules, expected behavior. This is the contract that makes the same recipe run the same way in every project that calls it.

04

Steps, inputs, outputs

The actual work. What the recipe asks for, what it does with that input, and what it returns. Steps are sequenced and named so a session can pause at step three, hand off, and resume at step four next session without losing the thread.

05

Cookbook home

Every recipe belongs to exactly one cookbook. The cookbook is the folder, the recipe is the file. No duplicates across cookbooks, no orphan recipes outside any cookbook. The home is part of the recipe’s identity.


How to find what you need

Three entry points. Pick the one that matches how you’re thinking about the work right now.

By cookbook

Start here if you’re new

The cookbooks sort recipes by layer. CORE handles the recipe system itself. COWORK handles session capabilities. Pick the layer closest to your work.

By category

Once you’ve picked a cookbook

Within each cookbook, recipes group by category. CORE’s categories run from Session/Handoff to Execution. COWORK’s categories cover session lifecycle, platform bridges, MPCS, cross-project transfer, and more.

In the public repo

The canonical index

The full recipe catalog ships with the framework. Clone the repo and the framework/ directory holds every recipe in plain text — searchable, greppable, the source of truth this site links to.

Honest scope note

A subset of recipes have full pages on this site as we build out the catalog. The complete library lives in the repo today — clone it and explore →


Why text files for recipes

A CRAFT recipe could have been a JSON config, a YAML schema, a database row, a managed-service API. It’s a text file. That choice has consequences worth saying out loud.

Text files version cleanly. Git tracks every change line by line. A recipe edit in March is reviewable in October. The framework’s evolution shows in the diff — not in a changelog someone has to remember to write.

Text files audit cleanly. Every recipe shows its inputs, its steps, its outputs in a single file. No separate dashboards, no plugin state, no telemetry pipeline. “Why did the AI do that” is answerable from the recipe and the run log together.

Text files compose cleanly. A recipe references another recipe by ID. A cookbook references its recipes by filename. A multi-recipe workflow chains recipes through normal file paths. No registry, no service mesh, no platform lock-in.

The text-file choice keeps the framework portable across model upgrades, platform changes, and project transitions. A recipe written for the current Claude Cowork build still loads when Anthropic ships the next model. The framework moves with the product.


Building with the recipe library?

Founding Chefs lock in direct creator access.

CRAFT for Claude Cowork is open during Beta through September 1, 2026. Founding Chefs get full library access, direct contact with the person building it, and 50% off the published rate for the first two years after CRAFT 1.0 ships.

Become a Founding Chef →

Recipes that compound.

CRAFT for Claude Cowork is open during Beta through September 1, 2026. Clone the public repo, run a recipe, decide for yourself.

Get the framework free

Open source · GitHub · Free during Beta