No Terminal on cowork

[W7X1000]

You said :

"3.1 Install the Plugin
Open Cowork's built-in terminal (click Terminal in the bottom bar) and run:

claude plugin marketplace add fedec65/bettercallclaude
claude plugin install bettercallclaude@bettercallclaude-marketplace
Why the terminal? The Cowork GUI "Add marketplace from GitHub" dialog has a known networking issue that prevents it from reaching GitHub from within the sandboxed VM (anthropics/claude-code#26951, anthropics/claude-code#28125, anthropics/claude-code#28853). The terminal method works reliably."

-> But there is no Terminal in the bottom bar in my cowork... What version of cowork are you talking about ? Do you mean in Claude Code ?

[fedec65]

Hi again,

Great question — and yes, this is directly related to the same issue!

The terminal I'm referring to is inside Claude Cowork, Anthropic's desktop app. It only appears in the bottom bar once the workspace has successfully started. Since the VM service error is preventing Cowork from launching at all, you never reach that screen — which is why you don't see it.

To clarify the distinction:

• Claude Code = a command-line tool you run in your own terminal
• Claude Cowork = Anthropic's desktop app that spins up a sandboxed Linux VM and gives you a built-in terminal inside it

So the flow is:

1. ✅ Fix the Windows 11 Home VM issue first (Virtual Machine Platform + WSL, as described in my previous message) Connect to Ollama #4
2. ✅ Cowork launches successfully and you see the workspace UI
3. ✅ A Terminal tab appears in the bottom bar
4. ✅ From there you run the plugin install commands

Once you fixed the VM issue, follow the installation of the plugin instructions here: https://bettercallclaude.ai/desktop#installation

Apologise not to keep a clean documentation. I work alone on this project in my free time and sometimes I have troubles keeping the documentation updated.

[fedec65]

You can also follow the instructions here: Ihttps://github.com/fedec65/bettercallclaude/blob/main/docs/cowork-setup.md

I will update the documentation for the Windows issue.