Deploy from Git with Claude Cowork on xCloud

Cowork is built for jobs you describe as an outcome rather than a sequence of messages, and a Git deploy fits that shape when there is more than one of them. A typical request is to put three client repositories on staging and tell you the addresses when they answer. Cowork takes the whole list, runs xCloud's detection against each repository, and keeps the results side by side, so you get one summary of app types, branches, commands and warnings instead of three separate conversations. It asks which server each one belongs on when you have not said, and it never picks a server silently, because xCloud's own rules for this job require you to choose.

The pause points matter more here than in chat, because you may not be watching. Detection and the dry run create nothing, so Cowork can do them without you and present what it found. The create call is different: xCloud refuses it without an explicit confirmation, so the task stops and asks you, naming the server and the address, before any site exists. Approve Full access when you connect the xCloud connector, because creating a site is a write and Read-only access cannot do it. When you approve, Cowork sends the confirmed request with an idempotency key, so a retry cannot create a duplicate. It then watches each site until the state is terminal, reads the failed steps, fetches the address and reports which sites are live and which are not.

Cowork also suits the recovery work that follows a batch. If one of the three fails, it reads the deployment diagnosis for that site, explains the cause, proposes a correction from the fields xCloud lets it change and retries on the same site after you say yes. Two failed retries with the same cause stop the loop and hand you the dashboard link. Because it is a desktop agent working through a task, it can keep the finished sites in its report while it waits for your decision on the broken one.

Claude Cowork specific: A delegated task will stop at the create call and wait for you, which is correct but easy to miss if you walk away, so check the task for a pending approval. Reads are enough for detection, but the connector needs Full access to create a site, and the level is fixed when you connect, so reconnect and approve Full access if Cowork says the create was refused. Cowork reaches xCloud from Anthropic's cloud, so it can only deploy repositories that xCloud itself can read.