bug-fix

Cloud Run ends every request at its timeout, five minutes by default, and a long-lived stream is still a request. EventSource is supposed to reconnect and in this case didn't, and the usual comment-line keep-alive can't help because the browser never sees it. The log timeline that proved it, and the fix: a named ping event plus a 70-second client watchdog.

Fixing three Claude Desktop failures on Windows: 'VM service not running' in Cowork, Google Drive connector returning empty results, and persistent 'This isn't working right now' errors, with PowerShell diagnostics, log analysis, and root causes.

The same error message covers at least six different root causes. Here's the diagnostic decision tree with PowerShell commands, log locations, and fixes for each one.

The Claude in Chrome file_upload tool fails with CDP error -32000 on every site. The fix is a single Chrome extension setting. Here's the one-line solution, the diagnostic that found it, and the wrong assumptions along the way.

High-frequency Cowork scheduled tasks can brick Claude Desktop on Windows and macOS. Root cause: the catch-up mechanism. Fix: rename one JSON file.