After /wp-setup completes, the fastest way to feel out what Cowork can do is to ask for something small and low-risk. Three good first commands:
1. List recent posts
“List my 10 most recent posts.”
Claude returns a tabular summary — ID, title, status, date. You see immediately that Cowork is reading from your site correctly. No write happens.
2. Get a site overview
“Give me a snapshot of my site — WordPress version, active plugins, theme, recent activity.”
Useful even by itself — and demonstrates how Claude combines several read-only diagnostic tools into one answer.
3. Draft a small post (but don’t publish)
“Draft a short blog post welcoming readers to my site. Don’t publish it — save it as a draft so I can review it first.”
This exercises the publish path with the safest possible scope: a draft you can delete in one click if you don’t like it. You see how Claude handles writing, tagging, and SEO metadata before any of it goes live.
Then try something bigger
Once you trust the basics, try:
- “Apply a 10% discount to every product in the Summer Sale category.”
- “Build me a landing page for [thing] with hero + 3-column features + CTA.”
- “Approve any pending comments that are clearly real, mark obvious spam as spam.”
Destructive operations
Claude pauses and asks for confirmation before any destructive operation (delete, overwrite, restore). It also offers a one-click backup before the first destructive action of each session.
Browse the 15 recipes article for more example prompts.