Full Claude Cowork Tutorial for Beginners in 2026! (Become a PRO)

Claude Co-work is one of the most powerful features inside of Claude right now. In this video, I'm going to walk

now. In this video, I'm going to walk you through every feature in Co-work from the basics all the way up to building automations that do the heavy lifting for you while you're not even in the room. I'm talking dynamic

the room. I'm talking dynamic scheduling, daily briefings, tasks that eat your mornings and afternoons, handled in seconds. This is the tool that turns Claude from a chatbot into something that actually runs parts of

your day. And once you set it up once,

your day. And once you set it up once, that's time that you're getting back forever. time for the trips that you've

forever. time for the trips that you've wanted to take, the side projects that you've wanted to begin, the afternoons with your family, whatever matters most to you. Now, the best part about what

to you. Now, the best part about what I'm showing you today is everything is already built into co-work. You don't

need to be technical. You don't need to write code. You just open it, you set it

write code. You just open it, you set it up, and it works. So, this is the full co-work guide. Let's get right into it.

co-work guide. Let's get right into it.

If you've been using Claude in your browser, that's great, but you only get one Clawed mode when you're doing that, and that's chat mode. Everything we're

about to do requires a desktop app. So,

what you need to do is you need to head over to claude.com/d download and then grab your download for either Mac or Windows because everything else in this tutorial will take place using your

desktop. So, once you open the desktop

desktop. So, once you open the desktop app after downloading it, you might be prompted to log in which it will bring you to the web and then you can log into your exact claude account uh that you use on the web normally. So, if you're

on a paying account, ensure that you log into that one so everything ports over to the desktop app smoothly. Now, you're

going to notice something different on the desktop app. It's not just the basic chat mode like we're used to seeing, but we get a couple of options up top. We

get co-work and we get code. Now, claude

code, this is for developers. So, if

you're building apps, if you're building tools, software, then you can go to claw code and actually run it from your terminal and it's a little bit more developer centric. Chat, well, that's

developer centric. Chat, well, that's what you're used to. That's the basic thing uh you where you type in it responds. You copy the output somewhere

responds. You copy the output somewhere else. So, this is what you're already

else. So, this is what you're already used to, but co-work is the one we care about today because it has the same power as clawed code, except you don't need to touch a terminal. You don't need to know how to code. You describe what

you want done and co-work goes and does it. It can read your files, create

it. It can read your files, create documents, connect the apps, run things in multiple steps. You can watch it work or walk away and come back to see the result. So, we're going to be working

result. So, we're going to be working out of this co-work tab today. Now,

before we get into the fun automations, the first thing you need to understand about co-work is how it's actually working. and it's different than

working. and it's different than anything else you've used in Claude.

When you open Coowwork, it's going to ask you to choose a folder. Now, this is a real folder on your computer. This

isn't something in the cloud. It's not

on Claude servers. This is right on your machine. And everything Co-work does

machine. And everything Co-work does happens through that specific folder. It

reads files from it, creates files inside of it, and works with whatever's in there. So, you can set up different

in there. So, you can set up different folders for different areas of your business or life. I personally like thinking of folders as departments. So,

I might have a financial department of my business, a marketing department, an executive assistant that knows everything about me and how I like my daily briefings, reads my emails.

Instead of me talking about it, how about I just jump into co-work and actually show you what that looks like working with your files. Now, the very unique thing about co-work is it runs

from a folder on your machine. Meaning

Claude actually has access to read and write information to that folder.

Meaning it can see the files or it can create the files. And this doesn't have to be existing things either. If you

want to set up a new project, you could just create an empty folder and then have co-work out of that and create markdown files for you, create text files, uh, anything you want. Maybe

you're brainstorming content and you want to save it to your computer. You

can do that here by just, you know, selecting a folder on your desktop. And

of course, you can use co-work just like you would use claude, but the point of using co-work is to work within a folder. And so, let me show you what I'm

folder. And so, let me show you what I'm going to do from an overhead view real quick. So, if we take a look at my very

quick. So, if we take a look at my very messy desktop that I am, to be honest with you, too embarrassed to show, so I zoomed it in. If we go to my YouTube folder, I have a couple of folders within my YouTube folder. One for

transcripts and one for analytics. We

can actually give Co-work access to this YouTube folder. So, it can view both my

YouTube folder. So, it can view both my actual YouTube transcripts from 15 of my videos and also it can view my analytics from the last 90 days. And we can have conversations about it and build things.

And it doesn't only have to read this folder, but it can actually write to it as well, meaning it can create things.

Let me show you what I'm talking about.

So, now that you saw that folder, all I have to do is select work in a folder.

And then I will choose a different folder. And so, what I'm going to do

folder. And so, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to select my YouTube folder. And then I'm going to hit open

folder. And then I'm going to hit open because I want Claude Co-work to have access to everything inside of this from a folder level view. If I only wanted it to have access to the transcript folder,

I could select this transcript folder and hit open. But I want it having access to the entire project. So I'm

going to select the YouTube folder and hit open. And then I will always allow.

hit open. And then I will always allow.

And now it has access to everything in the YouTube folder and underneath it. So

now I can ask it questions about these things. It has access to all that

things. It has access to all that content. I can say what are the 15

content. I can say what are the 15 videos uh what are the titles of the videos in my uh transcripts folder? I'm

interested to see which type of videos I've been working on recently. And then

I can send that off. And what it can do is actually go layers and layers deep because I've given it access to the entire YouTube folder. And it's going to be able to read files. It can write

files and pretty much do whatever I ask within this specific folder on my machine. As you can see, it's listing my

machine. As you can see, it's listing my transcripts in a matter of seconds. 7AI

agent tools. These are actual videos on my channel, but it has access to everything within the folder. And what

you're going to notice is co-work is a little bit different. We have a progress section up here. So, if there's a longer running task that's going to take more than 30 seconds, you're going to be able

to see the steps that Claude is taking live over here and iterate with Claude while it's doing the task for you. And

then we have a set of instructions over here, which we're going to get into next. And finally, context. So, this is

next. And finally, context. So, this is how co-work is going to work, and this is the way we're going to be operating throughout the rest of this video.

Everything stems from a folder on your desktop. Now, that's pretty cool. But

desktop. Now, that's pretty cool. But

watch what happens when we give co-work actual context about what's in that folder and how we want it to work with those files specifically, the actual commands and tasks that we want it to do with those files. Because every folder

in co-work can have its own set of instructions. So when you select a

instructions. So when you select a folder, co-work actually reads those instructions automatically. So it's not

instructions automatically. So it's not just seeing your files, it understands what they are and what you want it to do with them. So we have our 15 transcripts

with them. So we have our 15 transcripts and we are working within the folder.

But in order to make this more useful, like I just said, we can give it context over here in the instructions. So

anytime you communicate with co-work within your folder over here, it automatically creates something called a claw.md file. And this is going to be

claw.md file. And this is going to be added to your folder that you're operating within when you fill it out.

And MD just means markdown. It's just a way for computers to read plain English.

So you can read markdown just as well as a computer can. All it is is just simple words and a document. It's like a glorified text document. So if I click

into these instructions, I can actually give folder instructions. So uh I can give this to Claude when working within this folder. And anytime it enters this

this folder. And anytime it enters this folder, we have these hyperspecific instructions for what is this folder about? What does it contain? What tone

about? What does it contain? What tone

do we want it to do? This isn't for like actions like you should do this in this folder. This is more so like what does

folder. This is more so like what does this folder contain? So I can tell Claude this YouTube folder contains

my transcripts from some of my videos and also my YouTube analytics.

Beautiful. And so now Claude can quickly read this understand. Okay, we have transcripts and we have YouTube analytics. So I'm going to hit save. And

analytics. So I'm going to hit save. And

once I hit save, let me go back to my folders and show you what just happened.

As you can see in my YouTube folder, a clawed MD file was created. And so these are the folder level instructions.

Remember, Claude can write to folders just as well as it can read to them. So

this is how Claude organizes its thoughts and ideas when operating through your machine is by creating these little system instructions. So

when I open up the markdown file, which is just the system level instructions, I can even edit the instructions on my machine. I can even edit those

machine. I can even edit those instructions with Claude if I want it to be a little bit more iterative and I want to not have to go and manually edit them every time. So, can you ensure that

we add to the claude.md instructions?

When I'm in this folder, I want you to be very direct and also analytical because I really want to study these YouTube videos and learn from them and learn from my analytics about how I can

grow. And so, I can send off something

grow. And so, I can send off something like that. And I can even edit the

like that. And I can even edit the folder level instructions with Claude because it can edit the files within the folder. Then it says done. and updated

folder. Then it says done. and updated

your clawed MD with instructions to be direct and analytical when working within this folder. Beautiful. And you

can even go a layer deeper. Remember, we

just provided instructions for the entire YouTube ecosystem, the general instructions for analytics and transcripts, but we can get even more granular and add instructions within

certain folders. So, I can add a Claude

certain folders. So, I can add a Claude MD instructions for the transcripts and how I want Claude to operate once it's within the transcripts folder itself.

So, that's folder level instructions.

They give co-work context about what a specific folder is and how to work inside of it. But here's the thing, those instructions only apply when you're inside that folder. So, if I switch to a different folder, co-work

isn't going to know about any of that anymore. So, what about the context that

anymore. So, what about the context that follows you everywhere? Things like who you are, how you communicate, what your goals are, your schedule, your preferences, all of these things that you always want in the context. That

stuff doesn't change folder to folder.

That's just you. And that's where global instructions come in. I call this your AI operating system. You set it up once and co-work reads it in every session in every folder on top of whatever folder instructions are already there. So think

about it this way. Global instructions

are who you are. Folder instructions are what that specific department does.

Co-work actually reads both of those together. So let's set up the global

together. So let's set up the global side of things. Now I left a free resource for this down in the description. You can go down to the

description. You can go down to the description and access the AI operating system instructions. And this is going

system instructions. And this is going to change the way you communicate, not just with Claude, but with AI forever.

Because you're giving Claude five things. You're giving it number one,

things. You're giving it number one, your identity, which is who you are and what your business does or your line of work. What do you do? Your communication

work. What do you do? Your communication

style. How do you want AI to talk to you? Are you sick of the generic crap

you? Are you sick of the generic crap that always validating you, making you feel good about yourself? All of that you can put in this AI operating system because I want Claw to disagree with me

and tell me that my ideas suck so I can brainstorm a better idea. Third, your

goals and priorities. What are you focused on right now? Because when

you're switching folders from co-work, you're going to need Claude to understand the general context of your life if you want it to be useful. Four,

your daily schedule and your non-negotiables. This is amazing because

non-negotiables. This is amazing because Claude, when it's giving suggestions to you on what you should do next, it's going to take your non-negotiables like your spirituality, your daily schedule,

the things you morally can or can't do.

It's going to take all that into account and then it's going to gear its answer towards you. So, you're not going to

towards you. So, you're not going to have to go back and go like, "Nope, I can't do that. Nope, I can't say that."

Everything goes in the system template.

Five, avoidances. So, what do you never want to see in responses? People always

talk about, "I want to see this. I want

to see that." Nobody ever really talks about avoidances. So, tell AI what you

about avoidances. So, tell AI what you don't want just as much as you want.

Now, the system prompt is down here, and you're going to be able to paste this in the back end of Claude, so Coowwork knows how you operate, not just on a folder level, but in like a life level.

So you can copy this right here in the upper right hand corner by just hitting that copy button and it will copy this entire thing to your clipboard. You just

go and you fill out the bracketed information. Now when you're ready and

information. Now when you're ready and when you have that filled out, it's important that you actually paste it in the back end of Claude so it understands you. So go down to your settings in the

you. So go down to your settings in the bottom lefthand corner and select the settings button. And then what you can

settings button. And then what you can do is right where it says what personal preferences should Claude consider in its responses in the general tab, you paste in that entire operating system.

And just like that, Claude knows everything about you. So I'm telling I run two businesses, an AI education company and an AI automation software company called Lerty. Talk about my

clients. Talk about my role as a systems

clients. Talk about my role as a systems builder. This is stuff that makes AI

builder. This is stuff that makes AI useful when it actually knows about you compared to everyone else just using the generic out of the box model. So make

sure you fill that in. Then hit save changes. And from there, every

changes. And from there, every conversation you have with Claude is going to be different from here on out.

So I can ask it like what you know about me. Here's what I've got on you, Drake.

me. Here's what I've got on you, Drake.

You run two businesses. An AI education company, a YouTube channel with 300K, school community, clients are small business owners. Your core message is

business owners. Your core message is stop using AI randomly. Start thinking

in systems. Systems builder knows everything about me. So it's actually injecting this into the context anytime it talks to me. If you want to use co-work to its full potential, you've got to use the backend features of Claude just as much. And this will

translate on uh the web of Claude as well. So not just in co-work, but also

well. So not just in co-work, but also in chat and code. So, that's cool.

Co-work knows who you are. Now, let's

give it access to the apps you actually use every day. Co-work has a feature called connectors. Right now, Co-work

called connectors. Right now, Co-work can read your files, but it can't check your email. It can't look at your

your email. It can't look at your calendar. And connectors actually change

calendar. And connectors actually change that. So, Co-work has built-in

that. So, Co-work has built-in connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Figma, the Microsoft ecosystem, and a bunch more tools. Setting them up is dead simple.

tools. Setting them up is dead simple.

So, let me just show you how that works.

All right. This really turns co-work from like child's play to the real deal.

So, in order to get to connectors, you need to open up your sidebar and then go to the customize tab. When you're in customize, you can select this connectors button right beneath skills and then you'll be able to see

everything that you can connect to. So,

they give you some generic things out of the box down here. But in order to see all of the tools that can connect to, hit this plus button in the connectors panel and then select browse connectors.

And then if you go to the all tab, you can search for your tool that you want to connect Claude to. And this is going to allow uh Claude to take actions in your tool. So if you connect Gmail, for

your tool. So if you connect Gmail, for instance, you're going to be able to have it draft replies, summarize threads, search your inbox, Google calendar, it can manage your entire schedule, coordinate meetings, do anything you want. So as you can see,

I've already connected my Gmail and my Google calendar. And connecting to stuff

Google calendar. And connecting to stuff is super easy. A lot of the time it's just OOTH, so you just log into your account in a different window. So if I disconnect my Google calendar real quick

and then I select connect as you can see it just says choose an account cla for Google calendar and then I can connect the uh calendar that I want. So I'll

select my email then I'll hit continue and then I will give it access to some of the services and now I can give it access to uh different tools. So with

connectors there's always read tools and write tools. Write tools are things that

write tools. Write tools are things that can delete, update, create. Read tools

are things that can visually just see.

And so this can work in a folder or without a folder, but it gets really powerful when you use them together. But

right now, I'm just going to show you without a folder. So you can hit this plus button, go to connectors, and make sure that it's actually uh turned on. So

as you can see, I've got this Google calendar turned on right now. And I can ask what is on my calendar for tomorrow.

And then after that, I can send it off.

And it's actually going to go read my real Google calendar. So let's see what I've got on the calendar tomorrow.

You're going to watch this live. It's

listing my calendar events. Then it

says, "You've got one thing on the calendar tomorrow. Your Q&A call

calendar tomorrow. Your Q&A call integrate from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Otherwise, the day is wide open." So,

we've got a Q&A in our school community tomorrow. Beautiful. All right. Sweet.

tomorrow. Beautiful. All right. Sweet.

We got folders, instructions, and connectors all set up. Now, we get to the fun part, which is skills. A skill

is a file that you create inside of your folder that tells Claude exactly what to do when you give it a specific command.

This is just a markdown file. It's plain

English instructions telling Claude what tools you want it to use and what to do step by step. It's like a workflow template, so you don't have to constantly go and tell it to do the same thing over and over and over again. You

type out what you want to happen, you save it, and now Claude can run that on command for you every single time. Think

of it like a set of instructions you'd write for an actual employee on their first day. If you had to write down

first day. If you had to write down exactly what you wanted that to look like step by step, that's a skill. You

write it once and Claude will follow it every single time you ask. You can build skills for anything. Email management,

scheduling, meeting prep, content research, client follow-up. They can use your connectors, your instructions, anything that you want. The files in your computer. If you do something more

your computer. If you do something more than once, you should turn it into a skill. It's like a templatized way of

skill. It's like a templatized way of the way that you like doing things. So,

let me show you what this looks like in practice. I'm going to create a brand

practice. I'm going to create a brand new folder, and I'm going to set it up as my executive assistant, and I'm going to build skills inside of it from scratch. This is where things are truly

scratch. This is where things are truly going to begin coming alive because so far I've just been showing you little bits and pieces of how everything connects within Co-work. But now we're going to kind of build a real project

from the ground up with each other.

First, if I'm going to create a new project in Co-work, I want to work in a folder so it can be more dynamic with Claude. It can create files for me, read

Claude. It can create files for me, read files for me. And when we're building these skills for my executive assistant, which is what this section is about, creating all of these skills that Claude

can run when I give it the command, then it needs a folder to work out of. So it

has context into what it's doing. So I'm

going to create this folder from scratch. You don't need an existing

scratch. You don't need an existing folder. Just create one if you want to

folder. Just create one if you want to have a fun project. So I'm going to select work in folder, choose a different folder, and then I will just create my folder within my projects

folder here. So, I'll select new folder

folder here. So, I'll select new folder and I'm going to call this executive dash assistant. Then I'll select create

dash assistant. Then I'll select create and then I will open this folder up and I will always allow Claude to use this folder. And now Claude is going to be

folder. And now Claude is going to be working out of that folder on my computer. And so this folder is going to

computer. And so this folder is going to handle my daily operations, my scheduling, my communication, and everything in between. I'm just going to keep adding to this folder. And so first I need to create some system

instructions here to uh allow Claude to understand how it's working within this executive assistant folder. So I'm going to tell Claude to add this to the folder's instructions. I say executive

folder's instructions. I say executive assistant folder. This folder handles my

assistant folder. This folder handles my daily operations scheduling and communications when working in this folder. Always check my calendar and

folder. Always check my calendar and email before making recommendations.

Respect my non-negotiables for my global instructions. They are hard rules. Keep

instructions. They are hard rules. Keep

all outputs concise and actionoriented when drafting emails. match my tone. If

something is urgent, lead with it. Don't

bury it. Now, I'm referencing my global instructions here, but you could also just add the global instructions to this folder if the global instructions are that important in this specific thing,

like my non-negotiables and stuff.

That's some pretty important stuff. So,

I'm going to add that to the instructions as well. So, I went and copied them. I'm literally just going to

copied them. I'm literally just going to say here are my global instructions. And

then I'm going to paste those in. And

this is literally that entire AI operating system with all of my non-negotiables, my usual schedule and everything. And so then I'm going to say

everything. And so then I'm going to say let's go. And what it's going to do is

let's go. And what it's going to do is update this instructions file over here on the right. As you can see, it's going to add it to that claw MD file right now, which is perfect. It got all of those instructions within the executive

assistant folder. And as you can see, we

assistant folder. And as you can see, we have executive assistant here, global instructions. So it basically just added

instructions. So it basically just added literally everything I said. So now it understands me. It understands what I

understands me. It understands what I want to do in this folder. That's step

number one is creating the instructions so Claude knows how to operate. So now

that we have that folder created with the instructions, we need to start thinking what's something that we do step by step that we could have Claude just do for us. So I'm going to create

my daily briefing skill. Now in order to create skills, you can open up your sidebar and go to customize. And here

you're going to see skills above connectors. You can select skills. And

connectors. You can select skills. And

not only are you going to be able to see all of your skills within your Claude account, but also example skills that Claude has already created. And funny

enough, Claude has a skill that creates skills for you. So, if we read it, skill MD, Claude has instructions for the step-by-step workflow for creating

skills for users. So, that's really useful. And that's whenever I create a

useful. And that's whenever I create a skill, I use the Claude skill creator in order to do it for me. Um, you can write your own skill instructions. You can

upload somebody else's skill or you can create with Claude. And I always create with Claude. So I'm going to select

with Claude. So I'm going to select create with Claude. And notice how I am in my executive assistant folder. And it

just put this prompt in here for me. So

I said I want the skill to use the Google calendar tool in order to search my calendar. I want this tool to search

my calendar. I want this tool to search my time zone first though and see what time I'm asking the question at. I'm in

Eastern Standard Time and I want it to tell me everything I've got on my calendar day in a nice organized format.

I also want it to pull in any recent emails I got from my inbox to see if there's anything I need to answer to.

Beautiful. And so now I can work within a folder. I'm going to make sure I

a folder. I'm going to make sure I select my executive assistant folder.

And then I'm going to select let's go.

And then it's going to begin creating this skill that I can invoke with daily brief. Since I forgot to mention that in

brief. Since I forgot to mention that in here, I can tell that to Claude right now. I want to invoke this skill upon

now. I want to invoke this skill upon saying daily brief.

Oh, it actually just pulled up the Q&A.

So, what I'm going to do is I'll just in the something else I'll say slashdaily-brief.

This is why using the skill creator is good because it's going to ask you questions along the way. I'll send that.

For the email portion, how far back should it look and what counts as needs a response? Uh, I'll just do since last

a response? Uh, I'll just do since last evening. What format do you want the

evening. What format do you want the output in? Clean text summary and chat

output in? Clean text summary and chat or should it create a file I can reference? I'll just do a chat summary

reference? I'll just do a chat summary only.

And now it's going to get working. And

got it. So the skill triggers on slash daily brief pulsecal events. So this is an automation that I'm creating and my button that I press to trigger the automation is when I type in slash daily-brief.

This is so cool. So in a matter of like 60 seconds, it just built everything for me. It says here's the flow. It's going

me. It says here's the flow. It's going

to check the time. It's going to pull in today's calendar events, pull in emails, and then deliver it as a clean briefing in the conversation. So this is an automation I'm now running with co-work.

And right now it's running test cases and evals and it's actually trying this out for me so it doesn't have mistakes later down the road. So Claude finally finished. It did take a while, but this

finished. It did take a while, but this is going to be something that saves me so much time because I'm not going to have to go look through my calendar and my email. So after it ran its test, it

my email. So after it ran its test, it said all runs are graded and the viewer is ready. Here's a quick summary. With

is ready. Here's a quick summary. With

skill, 100% pass rate across three test cases. Correct time zone, pros format,

cases. Correct time zone, pros format, emails categorized, conversational tone.

Without skill, 33% pass rate. So trying

to do it with just a prompt only passed 33% of the time. Doing it with the skill passed 100% of the time. The skill is clearly adding value. Now I need you to actually look at the outputs and tell me

what you'd change about the content. And

so then it gave me a daily brief review.

So I can open this in Chrome and it pulls me to this eval review. So now I'm reviewing like with the skill daily brief. What is the output it gives me?

brief. What is the output it gives me?

So I can give feedback. I can say this looks great. And so right there in this

looks great. And so right there in this progress bar over here on the right where it shows its tasks, you can see step four, it was waiting for me. It was

it already ran the test cases and it was waiting for my review as the human in the loop. So take a look at this. It

the loop. So take a look at this. It

says, "Your daily brief skill is packaged and ready. Install it from the file above and then just type /dailybrief whenever you want the rundown." So now I've just saved myself

rundown." So now I've just saved myself from looking at my calendar in the morning. And not only that, but also

morning. And not only that, but also looking at my email. Claude brings all the information to me and so I can hit copy to my skills and what that's going to do is actually save it to my skills

on my Claude account. So I can use that wherever, not even just in co-work. But

if I go to my actual folder, my executive assistant folder has a couple of new files for me, which are these three. So I've got my daily brief skill

three. So I've got my daily brief skill in here, which is a claude native file that is going to run my skill. So not

only do I have the executive assistant instructions that we created, but it wrote the skill to my folder. And so now I can just say something like this. I

can just copy daily brief, send it off, and now you can see the skill and the step-by-step process running simultaneously. So it gave me everything

simultaneously. So it gave me everything I needed. I could have went up and got a

I needed. I could have went up and got a coffee. Sometimes skills will take like

coffee. Sometimes skills will take like five minutes to run if you have a ton of stuff it's doing step by step in a process and using dynamic information.

Because what I could have done is had it get my schedule and then if I had any emails that needed responding, I could have had it responded to those emails based on what it knew about my schedule.

So if I had anybody going like, "Hey, can you meet up at this time?" I could have had it saying like, "No, I've got a meeting. Thanks though." Let's say I

meeting. Thanks though." Let's say I just start my day. I can just say daily brief, go up, get my coffee. It's

checking my time right now for what I have to do. It's going to run the skill.

I can go on about my day. I don't got to open up my calendar anymore. This is

amazing. Now, if you want help building skills like these for your specific line of work, that's exactly what we do inside of our AI Foundations community.

We build systems together every week live. People can ask questions and we

live. People can ask questions and we will give you an answer. Furthermore,

you're going to access our systems and frameworks that have already generated success for thousands of business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. I'll drop a link in the description if you're interested. So, those are skills files

interested. So, those are skills files you build yourself for your specific needs. But Coowwork also has a feature

needs. But Coowwork also has a feature called plugins, which are basically pre-built packages that you can put together or that you can download from someone else. A plug-in bundles three

someone else. A plug-in bundles three things together, skills, connectors, and commands into one install. And the

really cool thing is is Claude has put together a growing library of these where they have things like legal, marketing, finance, HR, and productivity plugins all ready to go. So like

packaged up skills and files that are really good in these categories. So,

they're a great starting point, especially if you're new to this. And if

you look inside any plugin, it's the same structure of everything that we've built today. The instructions with the

built today. The instructions with the markdown files and the skills, the exact same format. So, you can really use that

same format. So, you can really use that prepackaged plugin and download it into your workspace in a couple of clicks and then customize them as you need. Let me

show you where to find them and how to install a plugin for yourself. The

plugins are sweet because everything that we just did together live uh a lot of the time Claude already has what you're looking for that you can just download, install and set up like it's a template and also you can create

plugins. If you want to find plugins, go

plugins. If you want to find plugins, go to the customize tab and then you can select this browse plugins button. So

role level expertise with plugins. This

is so cool. I'm going to select browse plugins and you can see you have a couple of different things. You have

bionthropic and partners. So Apollo has one. This one will prospect and enrich

one. This one will prospect and enrich leads and load outreach sequences with Apollo bio research so you can connect to pre-clinical research tools, databases and uh accelerate early stage

life sciences customer support, triage tickets, draft responses, escalate issues. They have a data plugin. So

issues. They have a data plugin. So

these are like prepackaged skills that thing we just built except you don't have to build it. It's already here and it does things for you. Then you also have personal skills which you can add other people's skills by uploading it or

adding it from GitHub or adding it by URL. So marketplace is like a skill that

URL. So marketplace is like a skill that somebody puts out onto the public. So I

could add one from GitHub, add one by URL right here and it would upload and then I could use their prepackaged skill. So if I go here and I install

skill. So if I go here and I install something like the productivity skill, what you're going to notice is it said it's installed and ready to use and I actually get to customize that. And also

over here on the left you can see that it says personal plugins productivity.

So if I select that you kind of get this little workspace area that you can that you can actually use with the plugins.

And when you get to this screen you're really going to start to notice the uh consistency when you install a plugin because they come with three things.

Commands. So these are how you initialize the system. Skills. That's

what we built. We built a command and a skill that had a connector. Right? My

Google calendar. The skill was do this step-by-step thing like check time zone, get calendar, make my daily briefing.

That was a skill that used all of these things with the command daily brief. So,

you start it with a command, you run a skill, which is a step-by-step process that uses connectors. So, in the plugins that you install, they have recommended connectors for you to install. You can

just pick and choose which one works best with your tool stack. Some of you might use notion for uh productivity and task management while other people might use monday.com or clickup. But these are

the recommended connectors they have for this productivity skill. Uh you can edit that as well. You can customize this plugin with Claude, which is really cool. And uh yeah, plugins are just like

cool. And uh yeah, plugins are just like prepackaged skills that you can install.

So, I recommend going and checking those out and also ask Claude to create a plugin if you want to give it to somebody else and package up your skill that you created because when you select this, you can browse plugins, but you can also upload plugins via zip file.

All right, finally, for the last and most exciting part of Claude Co-work, scheduled tasks. Up to this point,

scheduled tasks. Up to this point, you're still the one typing the command, and scheduled tasks will change that.

You can set any skill to run automatically on a schedule, daily, weekly, hourly, whatever makes sense to you. Now, your computer does need to be

you. Now, your computer does need to be awake and the desktop app needs to be open, but for most people, the desktop automation rather than the cloud automation is good enough. Let me show you how quick this is. So, scheduled

tasks and co-work are really cool, especially if you're someone actually sitting down at your computer working all day because your computer's already open, so it doesn't really matter that it has to be on. In order to get scheduled tasks, you can do a couple

things. So you can type in your prompt

things. So you can type in your prompt bar slash schedule and this will create a scheduled task that can be run on demand or automatically on an interval.

So if I select SLC schedule now I can type in a natural language command that tells Claude what I want to schedule. So

maybe as I'm working, I want Claude to review my email every hour and then draft up responses so that I'm never actually behind and when I'm working, I can respond and Claude can actually

notify me uh when that happens. So I'm

just going to tell it with my voice what I want it to do. create a task that can run every hour that scrapes my email inbox over the last hour and checks if

there's any new emails and if there's anything that I need to respond to draft I want I want you to be able to draft a reply for me. Okay, so I can say something like that and I can say let's

go and schedule allows you to create that task. So Claude will do this and

that task. So Claude will do this and I'm doing this within my executive assistant folder which is pretty cool.

As you can see it's creating that scheduled task. If I drop this down, you

scheduled task. If I drop this down, you can view the request. Says schedule task hourly inbox drafts. Check Gmail inbox for new emails in the last hour. Draft

replies that need a response. I'll

select schedule. And just like that, we have a scheduled task. Task hourly inbox drafts. Runs at the top of every hour

drafts. Runs at the top of every hour 247. Pulls your last hour of inbox

247. Pulls your last hour of inbox activity. Ignores promotions and

activity. Ignores promotions and automated noise. What it won't do, it

automated noise. What it won't do, it never sends anything. Drafts only, so you always have the final say. First run

kicks off in about 22 minutes. Wow.

Would you look at that? And so if you want to see your scheduled tasks, you can go to your sidebar and go to the scheduled tab and you're going to be able to see when everything is running and you get to kind of manage your

dashboard here. So these are the

dashboard here. So these are the automations that you can just leave your computer on or if you have a side computer even, you could leave that open 24/7 and have it basically complete work for you. Now, you can connect this to

for you. Now, you can connect this to any tool as well. And I mean literally anything because this uses just my Gmail connector that we went over a while ago.

But there's other connectors that you can use that connect to things like your HubSpot. So a CRM. So you can have it do

HubSpot. So a CRM. So you can have it do things with your CRM. And there's a plethora of different tools that you could have running on a schedule. So the

door opens super wide once you start understanding how everything connects together and once you start doing these scheduled tasks. Sure, your computer has

scheduled tasks. Sure, your computer has to be on, but if you're working anyway, set up things that you would be doing on your computer to happen in the background using co-work. Okay, that's

been the full clawed co-work guide for beginners. Now, let me just piece

beginners. Now, let me just piece everything together. So, your folder

everything together. So, your folder structure gives it access to your files, right on your actual desktop machine.

Within those folders, you can put instructions so that Claude has context into what is actually in this folder and what it should do. Then we have global instructions that tell Claude who you

are everywhere on the system. Then we

have connectors which wire in your real apps. Skills are the custom automations

apps. Skills are the custom automations you build yourself with a goal, a motive and a task for it to complete. Plugins

are the pre-installed pre-built bundles that you can just load onto your system right away. And scheduled tasks are what

right away. And scheduled tasks are what run all of this on autopilot. So there's

a lot to take in, but just take it step by step. Use it one day at a time and in

by step. Use it one day at a time and in a matter of a couple days, you'll be on your way to automating your line of work and freeing up time to do the more important things in life. So, if you want that AI operating system template I

used in this video, I've got it linked for free in the description. Takes about

15 minutes to fill in and it changes every AI interaction you have after that. Also, if you want to join a

that. Also, if you want to join a community of builders who will help you along the way, you want to get access to our systems, the things that I use, and the things that are really going to help you scale your AI leverage for your line

of work, I'll leave a link to join AI foundations in the description as well.

With that being said, I'll see you in the next