Claude Cowork FULL COURSE (Automate Everything)

Welcome to the ultimate guide on Claude Co. This is the closest thing to an AI employee that I've seen, and I use it every single day running my 7-figure AI automation business. I also teach thousands of businesses and entrepreneurs how to use it, so I know exactly what moves the needle and where people get stuck.

In this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to use Cloud Co-Work, even if you've had zero technical experience, and how to unlock capabilities that I've not seen anybody else discuss so far. And if you don't know who I am, my name is Jack Roberts. I built and sold my last tech startup with over 60,000 customers, and now I run a profitable AI automation business. So, if you haven't already, grab that coffee and let's dive straight in.

So, we're going to start by covering exactly when to use what: Cloud Code Work, Cloud Chat, Anti-Gravity, Cloud Code. Basically meaning that you don't waste any of your time, and you're always going to be using the right tool. Then, we're going to talk about pricing and plans, so you don't waste any of your money. Then, we're going to move on in chapter three to talk about the setup and global instructions, so that it always feels like it knows you and has that context for whatever task it's going to be doing for you. On top of that, then in chapter four, we're going to look at your first three tasks, so you can get your very first win within Claude Co-Work. Then, we're going to look at connectors and live use cases in chapter five, which is going to basically enable your entire tech stack to communicate with one another and unlock some really, really decent, pretty amazing actually capabilities. After that, we're going to look at exactly how skills work within Claude. And there's been some incredible developments, many of which you may not be aware of, so you can build the closest thing to AI employees that we're seeing so far. Chapter seven, we're actually going to go ahead and build some of these custom skills live together, so you can get some automation infrastructure for your business or your personal life, whatever your particular objective is. After that, we're going to take a look at plugins within Claude, so you can build entire multi-step processes and share those with your team or community members so they can leverage those within their own lives and businesses. After that, we're going to look at scheduled tasks in chapter nine. So, basically, your entire world starts to run automatically for you, and you don't even need to touch a keyboard. These things just happen for you, uh, in the background automatically. Then, we're going to look at Co-Workers versus Google's Anti-Gravity, so you're always going to be using the right tool for the right job. And then, we're going to move on to some battle-tested prompts in chapter 11, so you can get light-years ahead of your competitors.

Now, before we can use Claude Co-Work, we have to understand the Claude ecosystem. Claude Code, Claude Chat, Claude Co-Work, there's so many different things. So, this is exactly when to use which tool for your particular use cases. Now, many of you will be familiar with using Claude online, right? Claude.ai/new, and you can have conversations with them. To use Claude Co-Work, you want to download the Claude desktop app, which you can do by heading over to this website here, which is claude.com/download. Then, it will live as a desktop app on your computer, and it will look something like this. And I'm going to go through all the environments in a second, but you can see we have chat, we have co-work, and we have code. And you can toggle between those three options. Okay.

Now, if I were to explain to you exactly when to use which, realistically speaking, you have chat, you have co-work, and you have code. And then you have Google's Anti-Gravity, which is what's called an IDE, an integrated development environment. And the analogy will make good sense in a second when I come and explain this. So, when would you use Cloud Chat? We would use Cloud Chat when you want to ask questions like, "Hey, what is the best country for me to live in?" Typically speaking, you would do that over here in chat, and you can ask it any question that you like.

Then, we have Claude Co-Work. So, this is the executive assistant. This does workflow automation, app workflows. It connects to your entire world. We use this one, as you can see this little matrix here, when you want to do anything that's connected to your workflow, basically.

And then, we have Cloud Code. Cloud Code is what we use when we want to build software. Now, interestingly enough, this Co-Work application started off as Claude Code. And what they found was that individuals and small business owners and general users found it so valuable to connect to Slack and Notion, their emails, that they actually created Claude Co-Work. So, Claude Co-Work fundamentally is a user-friendly, a kind of non-technical friendly interface for Claude Code. You don't have to know any of the slash commands. It strips out all of that complexity. So, if you are very proficient and you understand things like a CLI and different environments, everything we do, you can basically do in Claude Code if you wish. Claude Co-Work is the friendly user interface, and what makes it unique is its plugins feature and some of the bits and pieces I'm going to cover in this video. Definitely going to make sure that you understand.

And so, just to summarize, Cloud Chat is when you want to ask questions: "Should I move to London? Should I move to Montenegro?" Cloud Co-Work is your co-pilot for your business. Ask it questions: "Hey, build me these infographics. Do this research. Um, you know, grab this email and put it in a Notion database." Think of it as your AI co-pilot, but you basically tell it what to do, and it runs those tasks. And Cloud Code, we use for building software.

So, first thing we need to do is just understand the app, because there'll be some features that are going to be really important for you, and you probably don't know. So, what we're going to do on the bottom left down here, you'll see if you click on your name, you're going to go into settings. Okay. Now, in settings, you're going to see a few different things. First of all, we've got this thing here, which is going to be your profile, your name, and your what best describes your work. You can basically detail it down, but it doesn't really matter. What's really important here is this personal preferences section. So, you can see for me, for example, direct and casual tone, no fluff, no corporate speak. This should be very short. This is basically the way that you want your Claude Co-Work and Anthropic to talk to you. And so, you can actually ask Claude a question like, "Hey there, dude, based on what you know about me, what would you say is three or four sentences I should have my general system instructions for Claude that dictate how Claude should communicate with me?" And then, based on information, you can actually get a good response. So, if I come back over now, we're going to come back over to settings. So, I'd encourage you just write a few lines about how you want to communicate, which is awesome. Then, you can detail basically your notifications. Do you want it to be dark mode, light mode, all those wonderful things.

Then, on the left-hand side, if we come over then to account, you can see you can log out. It basically details all the locations and where you're at. And it also has a link for active sessions. So, exactly what's going on. We've got details on privacy, billing. We also have usage, which is a great way of you understanding how much of your limits you're reaching. So, you can see my current session, I've used 0%. All models, which resets on Friday at 11:00 a.m. So, I have every 5 days, I've used 13%, and then Sonnet only 3% of use. And this kind of, um, basically details everything here.

Then, we have capabilities. Capabilities themselves are, if you think about it, memory from your chat. So, you can essentially, if you think about it like this, Claude will store its own internal memory based on your conversations, and you can do some different things. You can also import your memory from other AI providers. So, if you click on start import, what you can do is copy this, go over to ChatGPT, for example, which we can do right now. And then, on ChatGPT, we just paste in that prompt like so. And then, we hit that one in right there. And then, basically, from this, ChatGPT will give you all the memories so that Claude has all the full context of everything you said from ChatGPT. Meaning that you don't have this, ChatGPT knows some things, and Claude knows some others. And one of the reasons why this is important is because context is so important for anything you're doing in your business with Co-Work. The more it knows about you, your business, your aspirations, your favorite coffee, the more detailed and accurate its responses can actually be to help you out. As you can see, I've got a lot of information here. is what I can do now is come down here at the bottom, copy this, and head back over to Claude, and then we come down here and then paste in our memory details. Then, once you click "Add to Memory," your whole memory will be updated, and now Claude has access to everything discussed in ChatGPT. This is going to help it be more specific for you.

Then, when we come down here, and it's got all your updated memory now. If, if you want to bring that across from any provider, you come down here. Cloud Code execution and file creation, I would definitely take both of these. But domain allow list, it will always ask you, "Hey, is this domain allowed?" You can select "package manager only" or "all domains" if you want to. And then, we have skills, which we'll cover later in the video. Then, we have connectors. This is where all your connectors live. These are all of these services that you're going to connect and empower Claude Co-Work with. So, for example, if you're connected to Mercury, it now means that if you say, "Hey, how much money did we make last month?" It can say, "Great, well, I can tell you." Or, "You know, my accountant asked me a question like, Jack, what's the total number of this?" I just said, "Go to my inbox, find the question, go to Mercury, and create a report that explains it." And it was so detailed, I didn't touch a single thing. That previously would have been a lot of work. Now, with Claude Co-Work, it's super duper easy.

Then, we have Claude Code, all your settings, which is great. This is going to be on a different video, but just so you know, this is exactly what it looks like. Then, we have Co-Work settings down here, which is wonderful. Of course, you can share this with people. And then, you have your global instructions, which we'll cover very shortly. And then, we've got different aspects down here for general. Uh, we have things for your extension, which is really important. So, you can have these extensions, which are cool. So, I've connected it to Spotify, which is great. But if you browse extensions, these are additional things. Think of this like the Chrome extension for your Claude. So, you can add a Windows MCP. I've added control Chrome. You can add in Figma, read and send messages. So, if you want to send text messages, you can now do that via Claude, which is wonderful. Read and write Apple Notes. That is a wonderful one. Why don't we test that one out? For example, I can click on this. I can install it. These are just additional non-skills, if you like, to run on your actual MacBook. Which is wonderful. Can come down and lots of different options that you can go ahead and choose from, which are great.

And then, if I come over to chat, I can say something like, "Hey there, I'd really like to play something on Spotify. Find me something that's very energetic and that I would enjoy doing." Now, the idea between Claude here is that we effectively just give it connections. Connect it to your world, connect it to your Mac, connect it to apps that you want it to use, and then everything then is about context. What it knows about you so it can be specific. And then, what we're going to focus on on this video is the actual practical business use cases and how you can create systems that make your life unbelievably easier. And as you can see, it's come down here, given your MMA background and competitive drive. We say that sounds great. We're always going to allow that. Then it'll open up Spotify and start playing some cool stuff for us.

Now, one feature within the Claude ecosystem that you may not be aware of is Claude Chat. And one of the cool features that it's got. So, let me open up the browser side right now. Here's a cool thing. You can actually click on this thing here called Artifacts. Now, not a lot of people know that this exists, but essentially, what they are is sharable projects that you can create with other people. And I want to put this on your radar because you can't leverage Co-Work unless you understand Core Chat, essentially. So, these are all ones you can do: PDF to Prototype, Slack, Project Insights, anything you want to. But let's say that you and I are running a business together, right? And we're thinking, well, we've got this recent data, we want to share it with our team. How can we do that most easily without just sending them a spreadsheet? Well, maybe, you know, building an app would be overkill. But if we come over to Cloud Chat, and we click on New Artifacts, and we come down here, and what we want to do is select the type. So, we're going to do Apps and Websites, and then effectively, we're going to give it a bit of instruction. So, I'm going to say, "Hey, that I have some data. I'd like you to create for me a beautiful app that visualizes this data, brings it to life, um, and just make it interactive. Below is the data." Okay. Now, you could upload a file if you want to. I've just got some CSV stuff just to show you how this works. So, some random names, uh, some random cities, and different ages. And so, just like that, now we have this performance dashboard that we can blend and do anything we want to. We've got rankings, we've got scatter, we got profiles. This is all a form prompt and took a couple seconds. And so, what I can do now is come over and publish this. And then we say, "Global Performance Dashboard." As you can see, we're going to publish this and copy the link. And then, once we're done, we'll get a brand new link. Copy this. And now we can share this with our team. So, I'm going to open this up in a different browser. Let's try Safari. Okay, wonderful. I'm in Safari. Let's enter this in and see if I can access it off a completely fresh browser. As you can see, it's opening up, and here's a Global Performance Dashboard. And obviously, we can feed this with any data you want to, meaning we can share this with our teams, which I think is great. Gemini has a version of this itself, but the Claude one's really decent. I'm really impressed with the interactivity of this and just a great way to share data and information with everybody else.

So, now we understand some of the basics of the app, and we have Claude installed on our desktop. We're now ready to start building some beautiful automations for your business. But first of all, we have to decide on the pricing and how you can actually minimize your costs and find the best plan for your particular use cases. Now, within Claude, there are three different tiers. There's the free tier, there's the Pro tier. I'm in pounds, as you can see over here. It's like £18 or $20 a month. And then, there is the Max plan. Now, if there's one subscription that you actually purchase, and I'm not affiliated with Claude Anthropic, it makes no difference. I just want you to win. I'm just being honest with you. What I would advise my brother or my son to do. The Pro subscription is something I think is worth having for sure. I'm on the Max Plus Mega plan Ultra, and one of the things I would push towards you and just float your way as an idea is that if you are somebody who has the means to do so, I really believe that the Max plan is good, and I don't see the Max plan as a subscription per se. I think that we're heading into a world now where AI is so capable that I see it as an employee cost. I see my token amount as basically salary headcount, because that's the direction we're getting to now, because these AI models are so proficient at executing. We just used to pay people. Now we pay in tokens. So, that's the mindset shift that I have, that it isn't a $90 software subscription. It's essentially a $90 AI employee. That's the way that I visualize it. And obviously, I pay more than $90 for different things I have. But that's just the kind of concept I'd love to float your way. Again, I'm not on commission for Anthropic. It's just I think you find it helpful framework. So, the Pro plan is going to open up a lot of things for you: more usage, Cloud Code, Co-Work, unlimited projects. You need all this stuff to access the beautiful things here. Obviously, Cloud Chrome, Cloud XL.

Now, just go into a little bit more detail about how Claude tokens work, because you'll find this valuable. Now, we talk a lot on this channel about Google's Anti-Gravity. Now, the cool thing is, when you download Anti-Gravity with any Google account, you get access to Claude Code within it. And remember, Claude Code is just the model. Where we use that model is completely our call. We can use it in Claude's desktop app. We could use it in the terminal. We could use it in this environment. When you hear Anti-Gravity, I want you to think of Tony Stark. Claude Code is Tony Stark. Okay? Anti-Gravity is the Iron Man outfit. Because what we're saying here is, look, Tony Stark can do various different things wherever he wants to, or he can put on his Iron Man suit, which is what Anti-Gravity does. And obviously, you don't have to use it, but it's great. Now, if you have a Google account, you can use Claude Code here, called Opus 4.6, thinking, and you can start coding with it, and you would have files on the left-hand side. You have various different things, and obviously, you can use the Gemini models, and you can switch out. That's one of the benefits.

Now, if I come back over and just show you a bit more detail, just how it actually works. You got the plan: $20, $100, or the Max. $20 is $200. So, this basically, if you think about it, they all mainly have the same sort of capacity. But let's talk about the context window for a second. Okay, system plus tools plus MCP equals your base load. So, you're going to have different servers and connectors that can increase your context window, right? So, one of the things that we're always facing with how you actually maximize your usage and run out of tokens last is being mindful and diligent with the context window. And you'll see the tools that we use in this video later on and how that might affect it. But the tighter we can keep your context window, basically, so you're not kind of sending in 50,000 tokens unnecessarily, the longer and further your tokens will go, and the longer you want to use Claude on a cheaper plan.

And so, just to give you a couple of hacks: you want to clear tasks when you're finished. You want to basically get the context at every window you're in. 30 to 45 minutes for a focus session is enough, then move into a new window, because if you're changing topics, you're still loading in all of the previous. Say you and I are doing an email list, right? And we finish that task, and then like, "Hey, well, I'd quite like to plan a trip to Dubai." It's still loading in all that context, which is costing you money. So, just new window, new tab. Then, obviously, just use Claude's second most powerful model for tasks that aren't required, and save Opus, its most capable model, for the things that really need it. In other words, let's not have Albert Einstein mopping our kitchen floor. Let's save Albert Einstein for the big important things.

So, now we understand pricing and how to get those prices low. The next thing we need to do is set up Claude Co-Work so it actually feels like it knows you and protects your files at the exact same time. Now, the first thing I want you to do is to create a sandbox folder. So, now, unlike chat, chat exists globally. I can say, "Hey, what's the color of this wonderful bottle, Claude? Please tell me." And it probably say it's a bluey purple. Highly debated. Claude Co-Work works in folders and works with specific files. So, we need to specify the environment. Now, what we don't want to do is give it root access so it can do various different things. So, what we need to do is create what we call a sandbox folder. So, what I'd love you to do is come down over here, come to your desktop, and on your desktop, just right-click and click on "New Folder," and just call this one "sandbox." And so, we now have a sandbox folder on our desktop. Wonderful.

Now, we're ready to begin our very first project. Now, what this means is that Claude's abilities are just going to be limited to this sandbox. It can't do anything else apart from edit files within that folder. So, you're going to have assurance, you can sleep very peacefully at night. So, when it says "Working in folder," you're going to click on "Work on folder," and what we're going to do is choose a different folder. We come over and select the desktop, and then we come over and select sandbox, like so. So, now, "Allow Claude change files in sandbox." We are going to allow that to happen. Wonderful. Now, Claude is writing in sandbox. Beautiful.

What we need to do now is give Claude Co-Work a little bit more context about us. If you haven't done this already, I'd highly recommend you do what I call your "Business Brain.md." What effectively it says, I'm going to put a link for this down below for you in the description so you can grab it. But essentially, it covers all the key questions about you and your business. It's stuff like: What is your business? Who do you serve? How does it make money? What does your business believe? And then, we want to know about, you know, the machine of your business: Who's your target customer? How much money do you make? What is the flow from click to close? All this really core information. I spent hours building this out so you don't have to. You can just copy and paste it. It's worked really well with everybody in my community that I've coached. Really great structure. All the stuff I wish I knew when I was starting out as an entrepreneur. The three biggest pain points that your business solves. The reason why this is so important is because without this context and without understanding the problem that we're solving, how on earth could you possibly solve it accurately? That's what this gives you. Now, if you can come down here at the bottom, you can see we've also got part two, which is the "Make it," which is about you. What are the channels that you're on? What are your aspirations? What's this about? So, I'd say honestly, grab a big sheet of paper and a pen and a beautiful coffee and work your way through this. Okay?

Then, when you've done that, what I would like you to do is create a file in your sandbox folder. Now, when you've done that, I want you to come back over to Claude and say, "Hey, could you create for me a file in my sandbox folder called 'Jack Business Brain'?" And then send me the file location, please. Wonderful. And you can see it exists. Then, I'm going to say, "Awesome. I'd like you to add all of this information, please, into that folder." All right. And then you're going to copy and paste all of your business brain in like so. And what he's going to do is add it to that folder, which basically means now that the context about you and your business is going to exist in that folder, which is going to be wonderful. Now, I could save this information in its global knowledge, but then we'd be sending two pages worth of context every single message, and that's just going to burn your usage really quickly. So, what we want to do is dynamically access it only when we need it. So, he's saying it's done. So, if I click on this, for example, you can see there's all the information. Wonderful.

So, now we've got that data. Here's what I want you to do next. Okay, I want you to literally come over to settings and then come over here to this settings section and then come over to Co-Work, and can you see how it's "Global Instructions"? Click on "Edit," and then we're going to give it a prompt. Now, the prompt I want to give it is this, which is: "If I ask you any questions about business, for anything strategic, maybe about my YouTube channel, anything I want to do growth-related, check this folder." Okay. And then we just literally paste in the name of the folder. Now, the reason I've done that is if we don't do that and we're hardwiring the context, I'm plugging my laptop. That's how much juice I'm burning just talking. I get so fired up about Co-Work. There's anything we want to do, any questions that we've got. Now, it will go there dynamically, which means if we're talking about the weather or Gmail, it doesn't need to go and trigger it, which means you'll get greater usage for longer.

So, now we've configured Claude Co-Work and we've got everything set up. The next step is to get your very first win, your very first Claude Co-Work automation completed. So, to do this, we're going to come back over to Claude Co-Work. Now, my desktop is a little bit of a mess, but you might not be able to see it because of the way that Screen Recorder Studio works. But if I come over to my download files, let's say I click on "New Task," but what we're going to do is pick the folder. Now, because it's going to be something specific on my laptop, like my downloads, I'm going to select that here. Come over down here to downloads. That's absolutely fine. I'm going to say, "Hey there, dude. My downloads are a mess. I'd like you to organize them for me, please. Okay." And we're literally just going to say that now. Hit "Let's Go," and Claude will go and start working some magic for us on our downloads. And when I did this previously, honestly, it was so refreshing because you have so many duplicates. And actually, what it did for me automatically is it created a folder that said "Duplicates" and put it all in there, which has saved me so much time.

Now, as you can see, he's come back to ask him questions: "Sort only, no deleting." "Sort and flag duplicates." That'd be wonderful. "What folder structure do you want?" "By type." I think that makes perfect sense. And then Claude Co-Work can go off and work its magic in the background. Great. And then Claude just wants the ability to permanently delete files in your download folder. We're actually going to deny that because we don't necessarily need to give it that ability, which I think is the first point where you can restrict and guide Claude Co-Work on what it's able to do. So, I want to delete the files that I think are right. But again, Claude Co-Work asks, which is great. Now, you can see now we've got everything that we need here. We've got images, videos, documents, audio, archives, code, and web, and also installers. And then, if I open my downloads file, you can see I've got everything here, which is way more organized than the complete mess it was. I absolutely assure you.

Now, let's try a different task that I think is going to be cool. So, what I want to do now, instead of downloads, I want to go over to my desktop. Now, on my desktop, I have a receipt. So, I'm going to say to Claude something, "Hey, dude. I have a receipt saved on my desktop. Could you do me a favor? Just grab that for me. Uh, and just like tell me what that was and just some of the details." So, we can now leverage Claude to go ahead and read documents. I don't even really need to know specifically what was on that receipt or where it is. I can just say, "I've got a receipt." It will go ahead, grab that, and find that for me. And as you can see, it's gone ahead and found seven different invoices for me on my desktop, which is wonderful. So, Claude Co-Work is working fine. So, this is the core premise. Claude Co can do anything for you on your laptop. Once you give it the folder access, it can create folders, essentially do anything you instruct it to. Wonderful.

So, now we understand the basics of Claude Co-Work. Now, it's time to enable Claude Co-Work to really shine with its core mission, which is to connect your world and save you time through automation and essentially do anything that you ask it to within Claude Co. What we're going to do now is look at something called connectors. So, let's come over down here to the bottom left. And as you can see, whenever you're chatting to anything, yeah, we've got all the wonderful things here, but if you come down here on the bottom left, you click on settings. You're going to see on the bottom left here, connectors. Wonderful. So, what we're going to do is browse connectors. Now, these are all of the different apps that you can add to Claude Co-Work. So, you wanted to understand your meetings. Wonderful. Canva is a fantastic one. Slack, Figma. And if you want to find out what they are, maybe I want to have something like Canva. I can search for that, and it appears. So, there's loads of them here. You can even sort by type, whether it's desktop, web, and, you know, the list keeps going on and on, which is really cool.

So, we're going to set one up together so you get the idea. What I think I'd recommend that you do is probably set up the five or so that you're going to use most of the time. So, Google Calendar is a great one. So, what we're going to do is come over here and click on plus. It's Google Calendar. It says, "Complete the signup steps with a browser and a tab." This is open for me in a different window. So, let me bring it over here so you can see, but effectively, it's the same process either way. Now, the cool thing about this is that once you've connected it, it can then do things like find out what appointment you've got. And if I bring it over so you can see, let me just bring this over so you have a good look at it. There you go. We're signing back into Google. We click on continue. And once we've done this, and it's like just a couple of clicks to get set up. Come down, click on continue. Then, we will be fully connected and ready to rock and roll. And we can find that out by simply asking it a question. It wants to open Claude back up. That's fine. And then, I think it's now ready to rock and roll. Cool.

So, we come back over now to Co-Work, which is wonderful. And I might just say something like, "Let's click on 'Work in the sandbox folder' for the time being." I'll say, "Hey, dude. Could you do me a favor? Could you just let me know what my next calendar appointment is? What is the title of that?" Okay, just so you get an idea how connectors actually work. Come over, hit "Let's Go." And if you're wondering, by the way, how I'm speech typing, one of the softwares I'm using for this is called Glider.com. Um, you can use many. You can get started for free on this. You basically yap, and then it appears. Uh, that's how I'm doing it and saving a lot of time. So, we're going to come off this and let's rock and roll. "Your next appointment is weigh in at 8 a.m. Dubai time today." Great. Okay. So, it's got access now to my calendar. The ones that I'm personally using, by the way, if I come over to settings, come over to connectors. You can manage anytime you want to. There we go. Cl connectors. So, I use a couple key ones. Fireflies is a great one. Fireflies is my AI meeting note taker. Fathom is also another option. Essentially, what that does is join every meeting I'm on, takes a full transcript, and then if I want to chat with Claude about those meetings, I'm able to do that. Obviously, Google Drive is great, so we can search across your Google ecosystem. That was a feature exclusive to Gemini. Now, it's available. GitHub is great for when we're publishing and creating files and, uh, various different folders. I've got Mercury, that's great from bank, and Notion is also a wonderful one. And Canva, very, very tasty. And obviously, we've got PayPal, Zapier, many different ones down here, which, which are wonderful.

So, let's go back over to Co now and actually do our very first use case, which is going to be called the "Morning Brief." So, this is something that we can set up just to run, right? So, I'm going to say something like, "Hey, the dude. I would like for you to quote for me a morning brief." And this morning brief is going to do a couple of things. I want you to tell me all of the appointments I have that day coming up. I want you to go through my emails and let me know any outstanding actions I have that I probably should be actioning on that day as well. As all the appointments coming up, I want to know the weather report in Dubai. And then maybe any kind of breaking news, any industry-specific news that might be beneficial for me. Make it a gorgeous, beautiful digest. Be concise. And I just want you to go ahead and create that for me, please. Wonderful. Okay. So, we're given a prompt. It could be anything we want to. And we're leveraging these connectors. Now, what's really cool is that it's basically going to be using the intelligence in your system. Your Google appointments, your Google emails, and anything else that we give it to basically understand. And as you can see, it's coming down here to "Click Schedule," which means it runs every day. That's fine. I'm going to touch on later on in this video, which I think you're going to find very interesting. Great. "Your money brief is there." So, I'm going to say something like, "Dude, this sounds great. What I'd like you to do is quote for me a sample money brief that I would have received had it gone today." Wonderful. Cool.

And now it's pulled together my morning brief with the schedule I've got. And then it's got email actions. Then we have some news on the Dubai weather, 28° C, which is great. And then some breaking news. And then AI and automation intel with some different updates. Then I could say something like, "Hey, dude, I don't like the dark design. Could you make this look visually more engaging and beautiful, please?" Wonderful. And just like that, now we have a design that's a little bit fresher. And obviously, you can basically design this to your taste.

So, now we're in the board. Let's just take it up a level. So, I'm going to connect Fireflies. If you haven't done that already, the way you can do that obviously is come down here to Max Plan. Come over to settings, and then what we're going to do again on connectors is down here, and you're gonna find Fireflies and connect that. And basically, you'll open up a new page, you sign in. Now, this could be any AI meeting notetaker that you have. If you're not familiar with Fireflies, it essentially looks like this. All your meetings drop in, and you can chat with it. So, let's say, for example, I come back now over to Claude Co-Work, and one of the things I want to do, if I come back over to "New Task" over here, I might say something like, "Hey there, dude. What I would like you to do for me is grab every meeting I've had this week from Fireflies, and then I want you to create a brand new page on Notion and just detail all my actions and a brief summary of each of the meetings. Make it visually beautiful to look at and add a cover image to the Notion page as well. Keep it quite concise for me. Fantastic."

And just like that, it's on the meeting recap. So, let's click and see what it looks like. And we're going to open this one up. Fantastic. And then it's got all the meetings from that week, which is cool. And if I want to improve that or change that in any way, I absolutely can do.

And a third use case could be something like this: "Hey, dude, I want you to go through my inbox and find everything on there to do with Gumroad. And then I'd like you to create for me, let's say, a summary on that Notion page for me of all the emails I've had and just a brief data download for me to have a look at. Then, if you can get for me an interactive HTML document so I can visualize the data and the numbers, that would be wonderful." Gumroad is a free resource essentially. When we create resources on the channel, one of the places uses Gumroad because it's a great place to store all the information. It's completely free to use, but basically people can, if they want to, donate. I don't want you to, but it's there if they feel so inclined to do so, and they email you. So, this is a great example of actually having Claude go through the entire system, find out any information, and basically display it in an interesting way. You can see Claude is going through Gmail emails, which is fantastic. Searching for everything, running the skill. It's going to update our to-do list. It's got over 50 results, which is fantastic, and then create something visualized. And what's really cool here, guys, on the right-hand side, you can see its progress. So, first step: search Gmail for Gumroad. Second one: analyze the data. Third one: add it to Notion. Fourth one: is to create data, and the fifth one is an interactive HTML visualization. Then, step six is to verify everything. So, Co-Work is just this really visually beautiful and brilliant interface to summarize and view everything that's going on.

One little thing you can do as well, just while it's working in the background. If you click on sandbox instructions here, for example, I can give it some instructions about the folder. So, for example, I might say, if we're working in, let's say, Jack's business folder, I could say, "Hey, by the way, in this business folder is a list of what I do. It includes my projects for the year, and also this just additional context for Claude to understand based on the environment within which it's working." Now, what we're doing here isn't really connected to any particular file or environment. So, this is an example of a time where you'd basically say, "Hey, do all of this in sandbox." Wonderful.

And now this is complete. We can check out the Gumroad sales on numbers. So, we can open this up and check it out, guys. And just like that, I've got all of this data here, which is great. I've got graphs. I've got pie charts explaining everything, all from my emails. On top of that, it's also updated it to Notion, and I've got the spreadsheets. So, if I click on Notion, I should be able to see this. And as you can see, I've also now got a Gumroad sales recap, all from asking Co-Work to do this. It's got access to all of our data, and it just works for us in the background.

So, now we've done that, let's switch gears slightly. Let's give it something different to do. So, we're going to click on "New Task." Now, what I would love you to do is head over to Google Chrome first of all, please. Now, within Google Chrome, what I want you to do is add in the Claude extension, which you can do by clicking on these dots, going to come down over here to extensions, click on "Manage extensions," and then we're going to look for Claude and make sure this is enabled. If it isn't, just type in Claude. Uh, you may need to go to, to be fair, the Chrome extension store, which is extensions, visit Chrome Web Store, type in Claude, and then you can literally install it. One thing I always like to do with my extensions, if you click on details for the important ones, of course, just pin it to the taskbar, and then it will appear, and then you know that it is always there.

Why this is important is because Claude can now work with us in the browser as well, which will really unlock some cool opportunities. So, what I want Claude to do now is do a little bit of a web page audit for us. So, what I thought would be cool is if we grab a random website. Let's go for Grind Coffee UK as an example. Why do I always use Grind Coffee UK? Well, I, you know, I'm partial to my coffee as you probably know. Uh, Grind Coffee is a cool coffee brand. Cool coffee. I always, always appreciate their branding. The pink really works. But let's say this is our website or our competitor's website. What can Claude Co-Work do for us realistically? Well, let's open up and find out.

So, I've opened up a brand new chat interface. Again, I've done this to protect our context window. Remember, context rot is a real thing. Because if I give this a prompt like, "Hey, the dude, I want you to head over to this URL, and I want you to assess several things: the call to action, the H1. I want you to research for me the very best practices if your goal was to convert as many customers as possible. Then, I want you to assess my landing page against those criteria and give me a bulleted list of ways that I can personally improve." So, when we're using Claude Co for competitive intelligence to improve our copy, then come down here. "Here is the website." Okay. And pop that in. Fantastic. Actually, what I might do here is highlight this. "Hey, Glider, I would like you to go ahead and improve this prompt such that my objective of improving the copy of my website is achieved." So, I'm just going to the genetic feature in Glider to make sure that we can actually make this a way better thing. Okay, Glider's got a bit of an improved prompt. Sweet. We just enter that one in there, which is decent. And then we're going to hit "Let's Go."

And now Claude has literally opened up this for us in a brand new page, which is fantastic. And we'll start navigating now to our desired website. But first of all, it needs us to give the permission, which we're going to allow for the website. We're going to do this, uh, "Always allow" for for this website is fine. Then, if we come back over, you can see it's now loaded up and it's doing its analysis, which is really cool. So, Claude is now working autonomously in the background. Cool thing for you when using Claude Co-Work is the fact that you can crack on now with whatever it was that you were doing before you asked Claude to do this. Hence, it's like saying to maybe you're in an office, "Hey, dude, could you just go and do some research on this?" One of the things I'm finding actually as well is that the technology is at the point now where actually it is in many cases easier and faster to get AI to do it than it is a person. Generally speaking, if you know what you're doing and you can systematize it, which, which I show in this channel, it is way easier to do it that way. Wonderful.

It's now called has finished and it's given us a bit of an assessment. So, this is better coffee. It's clean, brand confident, and does the job. Position Grind as a premium alternative. The italicized "better" adds emphasis. Isn't it really cool that it can understand what is and isn't italicized and has that additional context? Because it's opened up in a new browser and it's got recommendations: "Primary CTA," "Assessment Recommendations," "Other quick wins I noticed," blah blah blah. So, we've now equipped Claude with the ability to search the internet and help us with whatever we want to. Now, the key thing.

I want you to understand here is that Claude is the co-pilot, and some of the use cases we're going to get into in this video are just so freaking cool. But you can see that Claude is functioning as a kind of AI assistant that's helping us do these sorts of queries.

Now, the fifth use case could be grabbing information from anywhere in our ecosystem, doing competitive research or customer intelligence, and feeding back a report. So, maybe a client wants to work with you, a brand wants to work with you, but you're not really 100% sure. We can get Claude Co-works to grab it from your email, grab it from your calendar, grab it from your desktop or wherever, do research on it, and save it on your desktop.

So, check this out. I might say, "Hey, the dude, I've recently signed a deal with Grind Coffee, but I don't know much about them. I want you to go ahead and do some comprehensive research for me on them and I want you to drop it, keep it maybe 600 words maximum so I get an executive CEO report. Show it me here and then also save for me in my sandbox desktop as well so I can check that out later." Now, again, it could leverage any one of our MCPs and go ahead and do this. Wonderful. So now they've done some full research on this, they've saved it, they've done all these different articles, get some data and view our executive brief, which is great. What it might also do now is update the notes on my MacBook, because remember we gave it that capability earlier in the video.

Dude, sounds cool. Could you give me a freaking, I don't know, maybe a five-bulleted TL;DR and save that to my notes in a new notes file, please, on my MacBook? And just like that, it's now asking for permission to write on Apple Notes. You know what, guys? We're going to allow it to go ahead and do that. And now we can see in my notes, it's also saved there for us directly.

So now I understand some of the core use cases and functionalities within Claude Co-work. The next thing we need to unlock for you is going to be the use of Claude skills, which have recently had a massive upgrade. Now, chord skills themselves are pretty exceptional. What it enables you to do is achieve excellence. So, say for example, we want to automate the creation of a beautiful infographic. That's amazing. But we don't want to have to keep going through the same process again and again and again. So, what we can do is give this as a skill to Claude Co. So that in the future, if ever I want to create a new infographic, I can just say to Claude Co-work, "Go ahead and do it," and it will do it to the exact standard that we decided.

So, the way that Claude skills work in co-work versus code is slightly different. So, you'll notice if you're in Claude co-work and I do forward slash, it won't show me a skill. Okay? But if you're on Claude code as a complete difference and I do forward slash here, it will actually show me all of my skills that I can actually use and integrate and do various different things. The reason for that is because in Claude co-work, Thropic are trying to make it less developer-esque, if you like, where you can just in natural language explain and Claude co-work will go and execute it. Whereas in Claude code, it's literally slash command, and it can still understand it, but it's just slightly presented differently, and there's no slash commands when you're using Claude co-work.

Now, Claude skills themselves, what are they realistically? It is a combination of an instruction and sometimes code or a script. So, for example, if we wanted to scrape a website, there may be what we call a Python script that does that. Sounds complicated, but basically, it's just code and instructions. So, it might say, "Hey, if Jack wants to do a certain thing, here's the step-by-step process you follow through. Here are the connections that you need to make," and it's all bundled into one file that we can access whenever we want to. And the cool thing is we can share these skills with other people in our team in many different ways, which is why the next chapter, what we're going to do right here is actually create one of these skills so you can see the whole process and how it might work for your business.

Wonderful. So for our next skill, I want to automate the creation of graphics because graphics help me explain concepts in videos like these to you earlier, but I don't want to have to keep going over to different websites to do this. So how might we do that? Well, we need a couple of things, right? We want to first of all get it to the point where it can create the information and the graphic well. And then we want to codify that into a skill. So these two colors here are the Jack Roberts brand colors, the orange and blue, the imagination and technology. So what we're going to do is get a little bit of inspiration and first give it a prompt. So I'm going to come down and say something like this: "Hey there, dude. I would like you to create a skill for me. Basically, what I want to do is to create an infographic. I would like two different styles of infographic. One is going to be more image-heavy, and the second one is going to have more explainer text where there are more details for me to create. Below I'm going to drop down some examples of infographic styles that I really like, as well as my own brand guidelines and the kind of gorgeous font. I'll give you the information, and then what I'd like you to do is just help me create this skill, and we can test it together. You're going to use an API call to a service called KAI, KAI AI, so that we can use the brand new Nano Banana 2 model. All of that must be 2K. It must be 16 by 9. And I would like for every infographic or image that we generate that I get three different examples for that. Is there any additional information that you would need from me?"

So I've said a lot there. Let me explain what's going to happen now. But well, first of all, let's feed some information style. So come over to our wonderful browser. And what I want to do here, guys, is first of all, grab a little bit of inspiration. So you've got Dribbble, which is a wonderful platform to get different things. So I want to find a style that works really nice. There's some gorgeous images on here, for example. Let's go and have a quick look. I thought these were really cool and really interesting different designs. So we can kind of mood board this a little bit. So if I click on this face poster design, I think that's nice and fresh. That's cool. So why don't we come back and grab a little bit of inspiration and see what we think. This is cool. I think this is quite nice. Let's grab this as a little bit of a for instance, this kind of graphics and there numbers. Again, I think it's more kind of mood board inspiration. So, let's grab that. For example, come back over to Claude, uh, excuse me, our Claude web app, which is over here. Fantastic. And then let's get a little bit more inspiration. I like the kind of earthy, natural tones of this one. I think this is quite nice in some respects that you kind of like step one, step two, step three. There we go. Fantastic. Come over and drop this one in. And then if you come over to Midjourney, this is really great to get in some beautiful illustration styles. Like some of these are gorgeous, right? Uh, let's say that we like the look of this as well. All right. Oh, maybe. Yeah, maybe this one, too. Just come over and we can screenshot that and then come back straight back over here.

So, I've dropped down some random images. Don't copy them specifically, but I just want my end objective here is to create something that's beautiful and engaging. And in addition to this, there's also a file on my desktop which is called assets. And what I'd like you to do is use the image and graphics within assets to feed the model whenever you're creating it. What I'd like is a superhero involved in every single image. You can change the color of his cape. You can change the color of his suit and change the color of the background. But I want you to replicate that graphical style. I've also attached that image for you. Okay, cool. The other thing I want to call out here as well is I've attached logos in this desktop file that you can leverage. And if I ask you or mention a tool that is not in that folder, I'd like you to go ahead and grab that to include it. So, for example, if I mention Grok or Google, I expect you to go and grab that logo for me. Cool.

Now, let me show you what I'm talking about in terms of the images. If I come to my desktop, you can see I've got these assets, right? So, I've saved this under assets because these are logos that I might talk about quite regularly. And here's my superhero JPEG. I'm going to say, uh, one final thing here, which is if you were to peg the graphical design to any particular style, given you, do it to the image.jpeg. Cool. Now, we've done that, let's go ahead and send this one off. Fantastic.

Okay, great. So, first thing it's asking for is KAI AI. What do we mean? Well, let's go ahead and actually show it exactly what we mean. So, the website that we're going to be using here, I think, is right here. So, it's kai.ai. So, we're going to grab this and come over. The reason we're doing this, by the way, is just because the pricing for Nano Banana 2 is really low. It's like 50% off. It's like 6 cents per image. So, let's come back over now to Claude and explain that, uh, something else. And we just type that one in there.

Now, here's a cool thing. You may it may not be image generation for you. It could be something else. But when you understand how to connect these APIs, you can effectively build anything that you want to. So, look, um, for the assets folder, we're going to say it's on my actual desktop. Wonderful. And for the API, do you already have an API key? I'm going to say yes, I do. Here it is. This. And then we go ahead and grab the API key, which we can do on the left-hand side under API keys. Come over and we can just copy our latest one. Wonderful.

And so now it's completed. It's actually saved them all for us on our desktop, which is wonderful. It's done three different tests, and it's even got some observations here, which is interesting. The character consistency is strong. A few things I noticed. We might want to iterate on the body text and explainer, blah, blah, blah. What's our take? So this is the classic process of skills. We don't want to encodify a bad skill. We only want to codify things that are great. So let's go ahead and check it out. So, he saved it here under infographic test results. Let's just open this up and have a look. Okay, we got quite a few here. All right, let's open up, uh, test one. We'll right-click and open these. All right, test five AI tools. Not too bad. All right, sweet. So, this is supposed to be image light. I think this is pretty cool to be fair. We can make our own opinion on it. And then we have our wonderful, the AI tools shaping 2026. So, this is the first iteration. Cool. Then we can check out the second one. And again, this is like a standard part of building skills. We just check out and find out the ones that we like. Okay, now we've got series two. This, I think, is pretty cool. Give a task. Plan X to get results. I would probably improve the font a little bit. I think one would probably edge it for me. I don't know about you guys. And then we've got number three. Let's open these guys and find out what we are dealing with. Okay, so Claude versus Chat GPT. This is wonderful. The showdown is great. And then we've got the infographic track. I think three is probably the best in my view.

So let's come back over and see what his reflections were. "Which variants across the three resonate most?" "Hey dude. So the third one was the best. I think we just need two different styles. One which is more image-focused and then one which is still has those images but maybe little mini diagrams and little mini metaphors to really help people understand various different things. I think the superhero thing is great. The fact that that superhero can change every time is awesome. Superhero looks awesome. Text rendering. Yeah, I think if we're using Nano Banana 2, but text rendering should be fine. And the only other thing I would add on there is just that the font looks premium and looks excellent."

And then after the prompt, let's tell it this: "What I'd like you to do now, turn this into a skill. And the one question I want you to ask me before creating anything is, do I want it to be more text-led or more image-led? Also, if I were to give you loads of sections, say for example, nine sections, I would expect you to create images for all of those nine sections and save them in my on my desktop with a with on a folder for me to access."

Wonderful. So, now we've done that, now we're going to instruct Claude Co to go ahead and turn this for us into a skill. Wonderful. So, now it's updated the images. So, let's go ahead and test those right now. Beautiful. I have found them on my desktop and let's open them all up. So, right-click and we can open. And again, this is just a standard process. So, let's see what we've got. Bulge AI workflow, choose your trigger, which is cool. We've got hatful nail automation, very decent agent will replace. Very cool. I think this is really decent. The only thing I'd probably say is it just needs a little bit more context and depth. So let's give it that piece of feedback and then turn it into a scam.

"Hey there, dude. Looks really good. Only thing is though, bro, there was no images on it. Right. So a real lack of additional context. So I want you to for the complex one, take reference to this and encode that, and then I want you to turn this into a skill, please, because the complicated version, the detailed version doesn't really have that much depth, but the one that is more illustrative based looks excellent." And then I'm just going to give it an example of something with a bit more information so it has that context. So I'm going to come here, paste this image in and say, "And this is simply because there'll be sometimes more complicated concepts. So no need to create further iterations. Now go ahead and save this as a skill for me, please." Cool. And then I can just show what this image looks like. You know, it's just something with a little bit more detail, right? Go ahead and click this. So, we can use inspirations to help guide Claude's process in creating this skill for us.

Okay, wonderful. So, now it's completed. Now, guys, check this out. We've got the skill.md, which is, look at this. This is all of the information. Generate a branded infographic using blah, blah, blah, infographic generator. Before you do anything, look at this. This is really freaking impressive. It's got the superhero mascot. So, we have some consistency. We've got the brand colors. We've got the building the prompt. We've got the visual explainers. Lots and lots of stuff. Then we have assets and it shows you all of the assets that are on your desktop, which are wonderful. I should also say, by the way, can I just confirm that if I were to add additional assets to that folder, that that would update automatically in the skill.md, just to confirm that's going to be the case? Fantastic. And if not, we want to add that in there. And then we've got references, including the API config. We've got the style guide, which is fantastic. And then we've even got scripts that it created to go ahead and create the entire thing. And then it's come back here and said it went and do that. I'm going to say, "Awesome, dude. I would like it to go ahead and read and replenish the skills such that if I were to add new fold, new images and folders, it would pick that up automatically."

Now, guys, now we've actually gone ahead and created this. Here's the cool thing. I can copy this to our skills at the top since we're happy with it by clicking this button. And now it is in our skills and we can manage that at any time. So, coming over here and click on manage. And as you can see, now we have our skills here that we create will all live in the skills folder that we can go from the customization section of the menu. And obviously at this stage of the menu, you've got here your active tasks and any scheduled tasks will appear down below. And we can click on this to have a look at what is happening right now. And so now that's complete. Let's go build another skill. And I'm just going to use an example of something that I would have. In reality, this could be anything we want to. So let's go new task, new idea. Now, what's more important is that you know how to create skills rather than actually what the skills are, because these skills are going to be so specific to you. So, for example, why don't we go ahead and do the follow: "Hey there, dude. I would like a skill where I give you a YouTube video and then with that YouTube video, what I want you to do is basically bring back for me the transcript of that video." Wonderful. Okay. And then in addition to that, what I might say is, "Additionally, I would also like to create for me timestamps that are valuable for the user. So, for example, if it's a big guide, I would like incremental timestamps that cover all the things that I'm covering. And if the video talks about five levels, maybe articulate it as level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Let me know everything that you need to make this a reality."

So, here's the thing. You're not necessarily going to know what tools you need, right? Or how to connect anything. The beauty of co-work, the beauty of code here is the fact that it can say, "Look, Jack, if that's what you want, here are things that I recommend you do." Now, I already know what the answer to this question is, but I want to show you the process because teaching you how to fish is more valuable than me just throwing fish at you, because then you can build effectively anything that you imagine, and that's what it's all about. So, he's having a little think, and then we can build the second skill. Okay. Okay, so just come down here for example. How do you want to provide this YouTube video? Just paste a URL. Absolutely. And what output do you want from the transcript and timestamps? I think a Notion page would be pretty cool, but actually I'm going to something else. Actually, dude, I just want you to open up for me as an artifact on the right-hand side. I have no need to retain this long term. It's just information I need to access and copy. And then for the timestamps, how granular do you want them? I'd like you to give me two different versions. One is light touch, maybe 5 to 7, and one is perhaps more detailed. Wonderful.

It comes back and it confirms this skill is going to get you well. It's going to pull the transcript. It's going to display an artifact and no summary, no file saving, just the artifact. Wonderful. Now, it goes ahead and actually builds it for us. And it's going to probably ask us for our YouTube API key to make this happen. And what's really cool here, guys, it hasn't even asked me for my API key because it believes it can get it directly. Now, check this out. I'm going to set up test cases and run them and create three test prompts with different video types and run and pull them in parallel. Let me run the test cases. I'll spawn them as sub-agents and parallel, guys. We got paralyzed. No, parallelized sub-agents. I think that's a word. Someone check the dictionary on that one. Running for us is in the background, which means you can do more work faster. Each sub-agent obviously has its own unique context window. Now it's launching it. We are going to say yes, that's fine. We're going to allow. Wonderful.

So now it's got a YouTube transcript eval review. So let's see what it's done and what it looks like. So I'm guessing this has pulled a random video for us. Let's have a look. Um, okay. So it's got a summary, some timestamps. Pretty decent. And the full transcript. Great. What I'm going to do, one amendment. I'm going to say, "Hey dude, put this in HTML, dude." So I can click one-click copy the transcripts, number one, and one-click copy the timestamps with a bit of a brief overview and just make it so I can drop the URL and do all of those things.

Okay, so I'm on mine, for example. Why don't we go and grab this latest one on Claude code and come back over to co-work and give it to it. I'm going to say, uh, let's do this one here, and we just send that one off and let Claude co-worker do its magic. This typically speaking is the process. You should spot back and forth a couple of times with co-work to get it to the point where it's creating the skills that you want. Can you do this in code? 100% you can do it in Claude code. But again, Claude Co is trying to pacify this. It's trying to make it easy. So, you don't have to have a lot of technical knowledge. Now, once you get used to it, you will naturally progress towards the code. It's very intimidating at first, but when you start spending 10, 20 minutes with it, it starts to make a lot more sense.

Wonderful. So, now it's complete. Let's have a look at what we're dealing with. We've got the interactive transcript. We've got the transcript skill. Let's have a look. So, we can open this up and see the HTML. Got the overview. We can copy. We've got the timestamps. And we got more comprehensive timestamps. That's cool. I think what I might say is, "Hey dude, on the advanced timestamps, could you keep them at a maximum of five words?" So, for example, instead of "connecting fire crawl and KAI API," I'd call that "firecrol API." Instead of saying "keyboard shortcuts and efficiency tips," I'd put "important shortcuts." Or instead of "co-work mode and anti-gravity connectors," I'd put "connecting anti-gravity." Once you've done that, let me know. And then I want you to create a skill for me, please. Wonderful.

So, again, we're just feeding back and we're happy with that, we can then turn that into a skill that we can use whenever we like. Wonderful. Website is complete, and then we just say to it, "Hey dude, this is great. Turn this into a skill for me, please." It's going to update its to-do list. Now, this is enshrined as a skill at this point forward. We can basically give any URL to co-work and it will grab us a transcript with that information. Now, you may or may not use a YouTube URL grabber, but the point is that it doesn't really matter. The point is that you have an outcome. We've equipped it with the skills to do that. And what we're going to do now is copy the skills to add that in. And then whatever the thing is that you find yourself doing, and here's the rule: if you see yourself doing something two times a week, we want to create a skill for that, because all these little incremental time saves are going to save you mental overhead and just time generally. That's why it's just so freaking helpful. And so now we understand the concept of creating these skills.

The next thing that we need to do with Claude Co-work is take it a level further by creating something called a plug-in. Now, a plug-in is beyond a skill. A plug-in, think of a plug-in as when you want to solve a particular problem beyond an individual task. So, for example, we're bundling multiple different things together to achieve a greater outcome. And the cool thing about learning plug-ins in Claude Co-work is that they are transferable. You can share them to your team, and it'll take your workflows to a completely different level.

All right. So, let's explain what is a plug-in and should something be a plug-in. So, number one is a filter test, the repeat test. Do I do something more than once a week? If the answer is no, then we're going to keep it as a skill. Cool. So, if you do something more than once a week, we move forward. Then we've got the chain test. Three-plus steps across two-plus tools. So, in other words, are you using, for example, Slack and ClickUp and Gmail? And are we using various different tools, multiple different things? If the answer is no, we're just going to use a simple command. If the answer is yes, we can go on to the third test, which is the handover test. So, could someone else run this without asking you? If the answer is no, you need to go ahead and document your process. And if the answer is yes, then you may go ahead and start to create a skill, a plug-in.

So, for example, if I come now over to Claude Co-work, we can build one of these plug-ins together. So let's go ahead and do that. So a plug-in could be something like a YouTube video system where I give it a URL, and what it then does is grabs the transcript. It creates me infographics. It, um, creates something in Notion for me and sends an email to somebody. So it's leveraging multiple different platforms at the same time and also doing multiple different things at the same time. So what I want you to do with co-work is create a brand new area. So you can click on new task. I'm going to give it this prompt, which is: "Hey there, Claude. I would like you to go ahead and create for me a plug-in." And as you can see, Claude is now asking for some information. So, what we want to do is we're going to have a content workflow. And then we're going to ask some questions, and it'll create a plug-in for us. By the way, you can also come down here, click on plugins here, click on manage plugins or add plugins. And what you can do is add some of these initial ones that Anthropic have already given us: Sales, Product Management, Apollo, Human Resources, or build your own. Personally speaking, I don't use any of the pre-made ones mainly because they're really specific. And I think the benefit of plug-ins, just being completely real with you guys, is really you creating them yourselves. For me personally, the use case I have of plug-ins is sharing stuff with my team. Let me show you what I mean.

So, if you come over to my community, for example, right? I have this competition right now where you can win $500. I'm not promoting it. This isn't a promo. It's just an example of how I'm actually using it. And I have this really specific design style for Claude skills like this. And every skill I want to have a unique avatar like this. But I can't really, it's difficult for me to say, "Hey, go over here, use this style, use that style." I can create a plug-in where they type something in, it formats a specific description and an image. So I create this once, and then my team can go ahead and create all these add-in items as we build out the world's biggest Alexandria library of 3D plug-ins that are actually cool. So that is an example of a plug-in, right? Another plug-in that you can use is a YouTube content system, something where it's got multiple steps that you want it to follow rather than a one-off. So a one-off skill might be, "Hey, turn this URL into a bit.ly link." "Get transcript for this." A plug-in is, "Take this and do several things to it." That's basically it.

So we're going to ideation, script repurposing, full pipeline. We're going to click on full pipeline for ours. Again, this could be anything. It doesn't really make a difference. So tools are going to be: I'm going to give you a URL. You are going to get a transcript for that. You're then going to add it to Notion. And what you're also going to do is create a post for me in Notion that I can share on LinkedIn and a post that I can also share on X. Dead straightforward. Okay. Really awesome. Now, is a plug-in just for you, or would you like others to be able to install it? I'm going to say it is for my community as well. And again, and the cool thing about this, guys, is it'll just walk you through. Now, it's interesting. You know, plug-ins is a fairly new feature, and I would say that, you know, if you can take the time, one of the things I recommend that you do and that I'm going to be doing soon is called an AI employee day, where you basically wipe the calendar clear and you kind of need to do this because if I'm being fair, in fact, let's see what this guy's saying from a LinkedIn expose. "Should the plug-in follow a specific framework or should I bake in the best practice?" I'm just going to say "bake in best practice of this." "How should this be triggered?" I'm going to say, uh, let's just do a skill-based one, which would be cool. So, this basically means that when it thinks it needs to do it, it will go ahead and do the whole pipeline. In fact, you know, let's go down and do a slash. I think that might be better because then we can be really specific with it. Where in Notion? I'm going to say standalone page. Great. It works out.

So, AI employee day, what do I mean? We basically clip the day to focus on one thing, which is to automate your business. And the idea of this is that we basically sit down and we go through a whole list of what are the biggest problems we have right now? What are the things that I find myself doing all the time? And you just roll the sleeves up. You get a beautiful crisp latte and you work through all of them and automate all of your systems. Does this component plan look right? Let's have a look at what it suggested. So, let's have a quick look here. Commands: repurpose URL, full pipeline from your posts, platform-specific writing frameworks for LinkedIn and X. Agents not needed. Hooks not needed. MCP: use whatever note tool the user has connected. And then connectors. Cool. So, this is interesting. I just need to give it a little bit of information. "Hey dude, just to be clear, you need to use the Notion MCP that you've got. You need to use the YouTube skill that you have that grabs the transcript. That's going to be really important as well. And then you're going to use basically Notion and you're going to write those things in Notion for me." And just like that, Claude is saying it's very crystal clear and it's going to go ahead and build that out. Now, the employee thing, I think, is really cool. So I hired someone for several thousand, and within three or four days, we completely automated everything that they were set out to do. That's how fast this technology is moving. It's not hyperbole. I really believe that tokens, literally the use of tokens and your ability to think creatively and as a system designer is going to be one of the things that separates everybody out in this new AI economy. Wielding these tools, becoming a power user, it's incredible. So, we kind of move to a model now where it's you as an individual leveraging the AI systems around you to effectuate your intended outcomes. That's kind of it to the point where there are many things where actually hiring somebody takes way more time if you know how to use a tool like we're covering here in Claude Co-work.

And just like that, it's created the content repurposer plug-in. So let's check out the plug-in.json. It's got the information, my name. Now, again, I could ask this to anonymize it so you can share it with people, but again, it's for my channel. I've got commands. I've got the repurpose.md, which is going to explain everything. And if you've got specifics on how you want to leverage your LinkedIn post, how you want to leverage your X, you can do all these things within the plug-in. Then we've got the skills that are included, the content repurposing skill, all the references, the connectors, and then the read me at the bottom explaining everything. So, first thing to confirm, are you using the existing YouTube transcript scraper alongside this for me, just to clarify before we proceed and save this plug-in, and then we can actually test it together so you can get the sense of how you stack all these cool things together in one in one process. I could also, by the way, have it create a calendar appointment for me or send an email or do essentially anything that I'd like. And as you can see, it's come down and confirmed that.

So, what we're going to do is come up and click on save plug-in as a for instance. Nice. So, what I'm going to do is leave this entirely. We're going to come open the sidebar. We're going to create a new task. And then let's actually close this and then do a forward slash, like we said. And do we see it? We've got plugins. Look at this, guys. Content repurposer. And come down here. Let's do the whole. Let's just click on this and click on repurpose. All right. Then look at this. A recent video from your channel. Okay. We'll do this recent video from my channel. Sweet. Let's go. And let's see exactly how this works in real time. So, you can see all this happen together. And we know that it's worked once it grabbed a transcript and it's got a page in Notion with an X post, a LinkedIn post, and also YouTube. So, it wants a YouTube URL. Let's oblige and give it one. So, I'm going to come ahead and grab one from my channel, and we're going to see this work in real time. Now, the skill and plug-in that I create is nowhere near as important as actually how to do it. Like that is the main and most important thing. So, I'm going to click down here and click on this. Okay, there we go. So, this is cool because effectively when you have those multi-step processes, previously what we would do is go into n8n or we would go into Make.com, and we would have a node that does this and have a do this. All we really do now is yap. That's essentially it. We talk. We're building software. We're building automations. We're building processes with our natural language. And when you understand how powerful that is, the number of people that understand this technology and use it correctly is even smaller than that. You have the tools. You just need the will to create them. And effectively now, you're only limited by your imagination. That's where we're painting with this stuff.

Wonderful. And now that's complete. And one of the things I want to call out with co-work, one of the limitations, if you will, with a YouTube transcript is that if it can't grab it with the API, it will actually open the browser for you and get it that way. Now, it still works, but it took like 30 seconds to do that. If you built this in code, Claude code, you can have the transcripts that run and they work effortlessly. So, I just want to say what the boundary areas of Claude Co-work are. When you're bringing in custom API scripts, it's not going to perform at quite the level that you would get by leveraging Claude code within the same chat. And for that kind of thing, you may want to bring in Claude code. It can still work, obviously. It's just a little bit slower. But I just want to be clear about what it's amazing at and maybe some of the areas where it could be slightly better, just so your expectations are super clear. But scraping from YouTube is one interesting thing.

So look, I'm going to click now, open this up. I'm going to check it out. And we've got a full markdown about how everything works. But let's actually take a look now at what it's done. So I'm going to say, "Hey dude, sounds really cool. I now want you to go ahead and open up the Notion for me. Where did you save this?" Because everything here on the right-hand side, guys, is essentially some of the additional instructions that we've given it now to work, which is wonderful. But I will say this, one of the kind of cheat codes of co-work is the fact that it can open the browser. Now, the fact it can open the browser means that we can automate things that weren't previously possible to automate. Think about contact forms on websites or anything specific on there, like maybe Upwork applications. You name it, you can pretty much do it. All right, cool. Let's open her up and check it out. And we're going to open up this Notion link. Fantastic. Wonderful. And then we open up the Notion doc. We can see now we've got the video URL, the duration, the LinkedIn post that we've got. "I don't have time to build. I hit this every week. We have an expose next thread." Now, in reality, obviously, we would go in a lot of detail, train it in on our tone of voice. We can give it all of those SOPs. Bring in our best practices. Really spend time making sure that it sounds perfect, which I'd encourage you to do. Building out individual skills and then combine them in a workflow. This is to show you the example how you connect these together. Then at the bottom, we've got the full transcript for the entire YouTube video. And also, in reality, I think for things where we're using scraping, that would definitely veer more towards the Claude code thing. It will do it a lot faster. This might need to go to the browser. So you'll save a lot of time, but then you can see just how powerful this is and how flexible it can be to automate individual processes that exist within your business.

So now we understand exactly how to build these plug-ins within Claude Co-work. The next thing that we need to do then is find those tasks that we need to do regularly, but we don't want to trigger them. What we can actually do with Claude Co-work is set up something called a scheduled task, which basically means you set it once and you don't need to think about it again. So, one we actually did already, which was the morning brief. But let's say that we want to do, first of all, a desktop cleanup. So I might say something like this: "Hey, the dude, I want you to create for me a scheduled task where every day you go through all my downloads and just store them in the respective folders, please." So we can essentially articulate anything you want, Claude co-work, set off on its way, and it'll do that for us regularly. So when would I schedule a task? It's basically when it needs to be done every day. So every day, do we need to understand some core things that are happening in our industry? Well, probably yes. Every day, do we need to understand what's on our calendar, on our emails? Yeah, because I don't know about you, but just getting one crisp daily digest would be wonderful.

So again, we've got some questions here. How do you want the file stored? I can say by types and downloads, which is fine. Let's do it morning, 8 a.m. I think that's wonderful. And then it can go off and start building that for us in the background. This will save us a lot of time, and I can see my download folders. It's pretty good. Now, the only thing that I will say is the limitation of this is that your laptop needs to be open for this to work. In other words, if your laptop is closed, scheduled tasks will not happen. And it kind of makes sense, right? Because how can it possibly do stuff on your desktop if your laptop's not open? Cool. And it comes up with scheduled task. And then we click on schedule. So, if you schedule this for 8:00 a.m. and then you open up at 10:00 a.m., it will just start at 10:00 a.m. So, it won't just fail. It should work for you whenever it wants to. Now, of course, if you're building with an anti-gravity, we can schedule tasks elsewhere, like in Railway, which basically means whether your laptop's open or closed, it makes no difference. But don't worry about that. I'll put a link for a video somewhere on screen so you can check that out and learn all the wonders and beauties of Claude code and anti-gravity.

So, it's done. That's all physically done, which is fantastic. So, if I go for new task, I come back over here. You can see now, look at this: morning brief, organized downloads. How freaking cool is that? And then there's another couple ones that we want to do. So, I might do something like, "Hey dude, I want you to set up for me a monthly expense report. I want you to go ahead and basically go into my Mercury MCP to check out my bank balances, ingoing, outgoing. Just do me a bit of a P&L and create me a beautiful HTML to showcase what that looks like. And I want you to put that as a recurring on the first of every month for the month prior, please." So, again, now I'm automating financial reports, which I think is really freaking cool. And again, I can just then have a good look. How much money came in? How much money went out? Where are my expenses? And I might even say something like, "Dude, could you do me a favor? Could you do like an expenses by category to help me make better and more informed decisions, please?" And this is where we're at now. So, I don't even need to do this. And also, guys, I could say, "Look, by the way, I've got other outgoings on my desktop, and I could specify all the sources." It'll just go ahead and do that for me. That's kind of where we're at right now.

Now, as you can see, we just come down and then we click on schedule. And so, you get the idea. We can do anything. We can do competitive intelligence reports. Essentially, anytime you want any information, we can have the scheduled tasks running for you in the background.

So now we understand exactly when to schedule tasks. The next picture that we need to bring in here is actually when we introduce anti-gravity. Now, anti-gravity, if you will, is what we call an IDE, an integrated development environment. It is a shell. It is an Iron Man suit within which we have Claude code. Now, Claude code, for example, is the thing that is powering everything here. If I bring out and show you, it's powering chat. It's well, Claude, the model is powering chat. Claude code is the thing that does the developing, the coding. Now, what we can do with Claude code is use it within anti-gravity to build some really amazing stuff. So if you want to build software, my recommendation is that you use something like anti-gravity, where you can literally say, "Hey, I want to have software that connects, has a database, does this, does this," and in natural language, it will develop for you. That's how amazing it is.

So let's break this down a little bit. Claude code is the raw power. This is the thing that creates code and is the brain of the operation. Now, when we do code work, what we're effectively doing is using different connections in a very user-friendly way. But if you want to build software, the recommendation is that you use Claude code within anti-gravity. You can use Claude code within the terminal. You can use Claude code within VS Code. Think of them as different Iron Man suits. And what we're saying is the Iron Man suit of anti-gravity is the one that we really like.

So co-work is fantastic for running things. So if I'm at my coffee shop drinking my coffee, where's my coffee right now? I don't know. And we're having these conversations and I'm like, "Dude, I just need to do this thing or I need to go do some research." I can just use Claude co-work easily, and I wouldn't necessarily want to use a development platform for that, right? I wouldn't necessarily want to bring out anti-gravity or whip up a kind of 17-page app like this, which is something I did build in anti-gravity for my community, right? I have community search. I have different chat functionalities where you can have a conversation with me. You can have a conversation with Homozybot, which is trended on every one of his videos because people really like learning. You can ask it questions. You can share it. You can do lots of wonderful things, right? And this is really cool. I built this in anti-gravity with Claude code. We have news in here. We have all sorts of cool stuff going on. The point though is that you can't do this in code, right? This is building software. Building software we're doing with language now. But you can, with code work, run and automate a lot of what you're doing in existing business. The threshold would be: if it's a tool, if you're building software, come over to anti-gravity and use Claude code. But if you're doing something you want to automate, like a task, any task-related stuff or any kind of mini processes, we can just use Claude co-work.

Now, what we'll also do for you as well in the resources section of this video is include these 10 prompts you can implement. These are things that you can launch in Claude Co-work that can just help automate and just some great ideas so you can start claiming your time back. Screenshots to invoice trackers, YouTube to full content pack. Again, this breaks down all the specifics. Competitive analysis decks. Again, this is actually doing some research on any of the people in your industry. We've got meeting brief prep, um, contract review summaries, quarterly review reports, cold outreach personalization, which is really cool, SOP generators, inbox zero print, which is great. So, it will automatically draft responses for your inbox, and then client onboarding packet. Some of the things that we didn't cover in the video, we could have built all these out, but you can now just copy these, amend it for your own purposes by clicking this copy here, and then you'll be ready to rock and roll and claim the time back with Claude Co-worker.

Now, we've covered the breadth of Claude Co-work. There's one action I really want you to do, and that is to simply automate one thing. I want you to sit down and think about what is the most time-consuming thing that I do, or what is the one thing that if you were to solve it would have the biggest unlock for your life or for your business. And then I want you to sit with Claude Co-work and actually just implement that one thing. If you do nothing else, just get that one win under your belt, and that will start having crazy changes.

Now, understanding Claude Co is one thing, but if you want to get the full power of Claude Claude code, you need to understand exactly how to leverage it, which we can do right now by watching this video.