maria_appsumoQ: A few questions - comparing it with Claude Cowork
This looks promising! I'm quite curious and will definitely give it a try. I already downloaded the free trial on my old iMac to test it. I have a few questions:
1. Can it access files and folders similar to Claude Cowork? Write files and read files? I see there is a Finder connection, but it seems to only be for finding applications.
2. How can I get chat results as .md or .txt or other file format to download it?
3. Regarding chat history, is it never saved (this is what it told me during onboarding), or can I save it somewhere if I want to continue a chat?
4. In terms of security, if the tool accesses everything I can see (for example, the browser), how is it ensured that it doesn't receive a prompt injection?
5. Regarding skills, I saw in on of your YT videos that skills can be transferred from Claude?
Sam_Alter
Apr 22, 2026A: 1. Yes, users manage their Obsidian vault and entire local folders with Alter. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlROt-rkg4M as an example
2. Replies can be copied in plain text, rich text or markdown. Within workspaces you can ask Alter to create files in a lot of different formats with the right tools and skills enabled (docx, pptx, etc.
3. Your history is saved on your device. You can access the Hub to see it in an interface looking like the usual suspects.
4. Nobody has solved the prompt injection dilemna. That said we have guardrails especially when it comes to work with your local files. Workspaces have different level of permissions with 2 modes local or through a sandboxed code runner for safety.
5. Yes we support Agent Skills. We provide a large catalog. We made a series on Microsoft skills: docx, pptx and xlsx: https://youtu.be/CAyuEi3HFqk?si=OPK1Zd5_Q_WueQLQ