Audit your draft folder and surface the post closest to ready
Grant Claude Cowork access to your drafts folder and ask it to cross-check each file against your live site. The agent searches your site to confirm which drafts have not been published, then reads each unpublished file and ranks them by completeness. One blogger reports the agent worked through 46 draft files and ran 44 site searches without step-by-step prompting, then named a specific file as the most publication-ready.
You get a short list of genuinely unpublished drafts ranked by how close they are to done, with the top pick named and a brief reason why.
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Time
- Varies
- Sources
- 1 · 1 independent
- Updated
- 2026-10-13
The prompt
Fill the blanks here, or leave them for your agent to ask. Pick the tab for your agent. The hand-off button gives any agent this page as markdown.
Look at my drafts in [path to your drafts folder] that were started or updated within the last [three months] and check that I did not publish them on [your-site.com] using a search against content on that site. Then suggest the ones that are most close to being ready to publish, with a brief reason for each.
What you need
- Claude Coworkapp
Requires a Claude subscription with Cowork enabled.
- Drafts folderpermission
Grant Cowork access to the folder that holds your draft files only, not your whole file system.
Steps
Grant Cowork access to your drafts folder
In Cowork, connect only the folder that holds your drafts. Do not grant access to your whole file system.
Check: Cowork can list the files in the folder.
Paste the prompt with your site URL and date range
Replace the placeholders with your site domain and the date range you want to check, such as the last three months.
Check: Cowork begins listing files in the folder.
Wait for the agent to finish the cross-check
The agent searches your site for each draft title or key phrase to confirm it has not been published. Simon Willison reports the agent ran 44 individual site searches for 46 draft files without needing any prompting between steps.
Check: The agent reports how many drafts it examined, how many are already published, and which remain unpublished.
Review the ranked suggestions
Read the agent's list of unpublished drafts and its reasons for ranking each one. The top pick is the file the agent judged closest to ready.
Check: You have a short list with a named top pick and a brief reason for each entry.
What goes wrong
The agent marks a draft as unpublished when it is already live, because the site search missed a match.
Fix: Check the top few suggestions yourself by searching your site before acting on the list.
The agent ranks a draft highly that is actually very rough.
Fix: Open the top pick yourself before you publish. The agent estimates completeness from file size and structure, not from reading quality.
Evidence
One public account of someone doing this job, or a guide built from official docs. We summarise each source in our own words. Open the original before you rely on it.
- Blog· Claude CoworkFirst impressions of Claude Cowork
Willison asked Cowork to scan his drafts folder for files updated in the last three months, cross-check each against his live site using site search, and rank the unpublished ones by readiness. The agent examined 46 draft files, ran 44 individual site searches, identified several genuinely unpublished pieces, and named a specific file ("Frequently Argued Questions about LLMs") as the most publication-ready. Willison notes the whole loop ran autonomously inside a sandboxed container with no step-by-step prompting required.
Simon Willison · simonw.substack.com
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