daily-cowork-backup

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates daily backups of Cowork VM sessions, bundling skills, Claude documents, plugins, and configuration files and removing the manual work of locating volatile session mounts, zipping components with exclusions, and transferring them to Google Drive.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automatic session discovery: Dynamically finds the active Cowork session mount so you never hardcode session names.
• Componentized archiving with exclusions: Produces separate zip archives for skills, Claude documents (with optional splitting when large), plugins, and configs while excluding node_modules, .git, build artifacts, and image files.
• Mac-side upload flow: Stages archives to the host via the mounted Claude folder and executes a two-step POST→GET upload using Desktop Commander to a configured Apps Script endpoint, replacing previous backups.
• Use Case: Run daily as a scheduled Cowork task to maintain an up-to-date Cowork-Backups folder on Google Drive for disaster recovery and migration.

Quick Start

Run the daily-cowork-backup skill to discover the active session, create zipped backups of skills, docs, plugins, and configs with the required exclusions, stage them to the host, and upload them to the Cowork-Backups folder on Google Drive.