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A coworker you’ve tuned is worth keeping. You can pause one, bring it back, or turn it into a template and hire the same setup again.

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Pausing a coworker

Work dried up, or the experiment didn’t pan out. Disable it and it stops taking on work — no schedules fire, no channels listen, nothing runs. It stays on your roster with a status badge, and everything it has — instructions, personality, skills, memory, capabilities — is preserved exactly as it was.
Two coworker headers, one marked Active and one marked Paused

A paused coworker keeps its name, role and everything it learned. Only the badge changes.

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Bringing one back

Re-enable it and it picks up where it left off, with everything it knew. This is the reason to pause rather than delete: a coworker that has been corrected fifty times is genuinely more useful than a fresh one, and that’s all lost on deletion.
Deleting is permanent. Skills, memory and history go with it. If there’s any chance you’ll want it again, pause instead.

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Saving one as a template

When a coworker is working really well, save it as a template from the menu on its page. You then hire that same setup again whenever you want — same instructions, same personality, same capabilities, same skills.

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When that’s worth doing

  • You’ve spent weeks tuning a coworker and want a second one for a different region or product line
  • Someone else on your team needs the same role and shouldn’t start from nothing
  • You want a known-good starting point before experimenting with the original
  • The role is one you’ll keep hiring for
Save the template before you experiment. It costs nothing and gives you somewhere to fall back to if a rewrite makes things worse.

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What carries, and what doesn’t

Memory doesn’t carry, and that’s deliberate. Those notes are about a particular working relationship, and a fresh coworker builds its own.

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Common questions

No. It isn’t working, so there’s nothing to charge for. Pausing is the cheap option, not a compromise.
Stop the task first if you want a clean finish. Pausing prevents new work rather than tidying up in-flight work.
Save a fresh one from the improved coworker. A template is a saved copy of a setup you liked, and keeping the old one costs nothing.
Yes — your own appear as options when you hire, next to the five that ship with Cowork.
Only if you’re certain. Pausing achieves the same practical result — it stops working and stops costing — without throwing away what it learned.

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Next steps

Your roster and team view

Where status is managed.

The five ready-made coworkers

The templates that ship with Cowork.

What a coworker remembers

What doesn’t carry, and why.

Hiring a coworker

Hire from your own template.