Managing Cowork's Memory
Managing Cowork's Memory
Decoding Your Company's Acronyms
Cowork has no idea what your internal jargon means, and it won't admit it.
You paste in a meeting note and ask Cowork to draft a follow-up. The note mentions the QBR, the new RTM, and a blocker with the CSV team. Cowork's reply is smooth and confident. It talks about your quarterly business review, your requirements traceability matrix, and a team that handles comma-separated data files.
Except your QBR is a quota bonus review. RTM is your release-train manager, a person. And CSV is the name of a product line, not a file format.
Nothing in the reply looks wrong. That's the problem. Cowork didn't flag a single one of those guesses. It filled the gaps with the most common public meaning of each acronym and kept moving.
The tool isn't dumb. It just doesn't have your dictionary; it won't ask for one. The fix is to write the dictionary down once.
#Why Cowork guesses instead of asking
Every company runs on a private language. Acronyms, project codenames, internal team names, product lines that sound like generic nouns. None of it is in what Cowork learned from public text, because none of it is public.