Meet it

Asking well

Standing context

Teaching it a procedure

Safety

Making it real

Take one messy folder of monthly sales exports and turn it into a cleaned spreadsheet, a one page summary and a short deck, every month, without being asked twice. Along the way: how to write a brief for work nobody will watch, where the work actually runs, what it may reach, and which of the three approval modes each job deserves.

Claude Cowork

Everything in this course, and where it is going

What you need

Claude Cowork course: a complete, practical tutorial

What you are going to build

It is not free

Claude Cowork vs Chat vs Claude Code: which to use

Cowork, Chat and Code

The first brief, written the way most people write it

A task, from send to finish

Do not tidy up first

Run your first task in Claude Cowork

Your first task

So how does it read a file on your laptop

A local file, reaching a cloud session

What the sandbox can reach on the network

What a task can reach, and how

One sentence version

How Claude Cowork runs: sandbox, files and network

Where the work actually happens

The five things a brief has to answer

Repeating yourself is a signal

How to write a Claude Cowork task brief

A brief for work you will not watch

Watch what you keep saying

How to steer a running Claude Cowork task

Steering a running task

Do not delete the evidence

Fixing a bad Claude Cowork run

When it goes wrong

The most useful sentence in a brief

Files and artifacts in Claude Cowork

What comes back

When to add a line

Global instructions in Claude Cowork

Global instructions

How big a project should be

Organise Claude Cowork work with projects

Projects: context that stays

The question to ask

Connectors in Claude Cowork: giving Claude access

Connectors: what it may reach

Do it twice first

Claude Cowork skills: teach it a repeatable procedure

Skills: the same job, your way

How to test a description

Write a Claude skill description that gets used

Writing a description it will pick

The mistake that accounts for most dead skills

Break it on purpose

Validate a Claude skill file before using it

Checking a skill before you trust it

At a larger scale

Share Claude skills with your team using plugins

Plugins: handing your setup to a team

A sensible way to start a new job

Modes are the second line

Claude Cowork approval modes explained

The three approval modes

Stopping is free

Prompt injection risk in Claude Cowork, and how to reduce it

Prompt injection, in plain words

Availability, which is genuinely confusing

It sees your screen

Computer use and the built-in browser in Claude Cowork

Computer use and the browser

Unattended twice over

Schedule recurring tasks in Claude Cowork

Putting the job on a schedule

Still in beta

Start Claude Cowork tasks from your phone

Working from your phone

The finished setup, and the lesson each piece came from

The brief, now that everything else exists

Build it over a month, not an afternoon

Claude Cowork: a complete monthly reporting workflow

Build the monthly report, end to end

Asking well quiz

What are the five things a brief for unattended work has to say?