The 3 Claude Cowork Features You Can’t Ignore (Master Them)

I've been using Cloud Co-work every single day to run my business for the last 4 months. And there are three crucial features you need to master that most people simply ignore. In this video, I'm going to walk you through all three one by one. I'm going to break down what they do, how to set them up, and how I actually use them every single day. By the end of this video, you'll be ahead of 90% of people using Claude. And don't worry, I'm going to break it down so simply that literally anyone can follow along. So, without further ado, let's dive in. All right, so there's a good chance that you're probably underusing Claude. So in this video, I'm going to talk about the three features that will take you way further with Claude and you really need to master them if you want to get the full capabilities of this incredibly powerful platform. So first of all, most people use Claude like a basic chatbot. Basically, they just type in a specific prompt, a question, and Claude will give you a text output. This is a very basic way to be using this. So the first feature that you really need to master is skills. If you don't know what a skill is, let me break it down right now so literally anybody can understand it. So a skill is a reusable set of instructions. Claude loads automatically and you can create skills about specific workflows that you do in your business across all these different categories. And instead of having to give a really long prompt to Claude every single time you want this to run, it automatically knows exactly how to perform this task. And this is a perfect graphic to explain. Basically, we just have to write these instructions once and we could use these forever. For example, this right here is a YouTube's hook skill that I personally run and it will automatically generate these YouTube hooks in my exact style without me needing to recreate them. So, to quickly talk about the anatomy of what a skill looks like. This is it in a nutshell. So, first of all, we have the name of the skill. We have the specific description, which is basically breaking down exactly how it works. And then the instructions, which is the step-by-step guide on how to perform this task. Now, if I come into Claude, these are all the skills that I personally use every single day. I have about like 200 plus at this point that I use. And if I click on a skill, for example, if I click on this YouTube tox, you could see a couple of different things. We have the description breaking down exactly what this is. We then have this markdown file, which is basically the very in-depth instructions on exactly how to, you know, run this workflow and as well as show the specific output style. And we could collect as many of these skills as we would like. And I'm going to show you how to create them. You might be asking yourself right now, Brock, how does Claude know which skills to use for my specific workflows? And there's a couple of different ways that it does this. So, we ask a specific question or give it a task that we want Claude to perform. It will then search through our directory of the different skills that we have in order to find the best match in order to get that task done. And then from there, we now have a specialist inside of our Claude co-work that's able to do these specific tasks exactly how we want them done. So even if I do have 200 of these different skills inside of my Claude, it's able to pick and choose which ones I should be using for specific tasks. Real quick, if you guys want the 15 Claude Co-work skills that I can't live without, I'm giving them away completely for free for you guys in this video. So there is a link in the description to grab these. Again, they're completely free. These are 15 handpicked skills that I've created myself that I use across my business every single day. So, if you want to access them, begin downloading them. Once you come to this page, just fill out your email. Then, it will be sent directly there. And you just need to go to Claude, upload the plugin, and you should have access to all these different skills. So, now that you have that, let's get back to the video. All right. So, the first skill that I want to show you that I use literally every single day is a PDF guide skill that I created myself. Take a look up here. I said PDF guide breaking down in depth how Claude skills work and then giving a breakdown on 10 different skills to run. And this right here is the output after I created this skill. So here is a rundown. So it shows the reason most people plateau what a skill actually is. And it's following this design style that I created. And it even generates these like little infographic explainer diagrams directly inside of this PDF. Again, you could see this pretty cool little brain node thing that it generated directly inside of this. And this is something that I use all the time in order to give this away as a lead magnet on Instagram. I'll say like comment X and I'll send you a resource. And it automatically creates these PDF guides for me that either I can use in order to do research on a particular topic, give away to my team when we create SOPs, or give these as lead magnets in order to give value to my audience. And this skill always lives in my library. So I could just click on this and make changes to this whenever I want. So basically inside of this skill, we could see what the output looks like. It breaks down how to build a new guide, specific design rules, so that way every time I generate a PDF, it always uses this particular style. So this is a really basic skill. Let me now show you three of the ones that I use every single day. And I think this will be incredibly helpful. You could download these and steal these from me, as well as I'm going to show you how to build your own skills from scratch. And then next up, the feature I'm going to show you after this really takes skills to the next level and turns these into almost an autonomous AI employee that could go and do things on your behalf in the specific way that you want them done. This skill right here is called visualize. And I personally use this whenever I need to understand something because I'm a visual learner. I really like to be able to see a visual breakdown when I'm trying to understand more complex topics. This is one that I use personally every single day in order to explain things to me. So I basically just said visualize how claude co-works and it automatically generated this HTML dashboard for me. So whenever I say visualize basically anything it will generate an output that looks almost exactly like this. So I could pull this up in my browser and let me quickly break this down. So it shows the operating system for getting real work done with Claude. At a glance it shows four things that make Claude co-work different from a chat window. skills, connectors, memory, automation, and then it even generated this diagram for me to break down exactly how Claude co-work requests actually run. So, for example, here's my input. It then shows Claude as the orchestrator, picks specific skills, calls the different connectors, reads my memory, and decides what to do. And here's a visual breakdown of exactly how this works. So for me personally, whenever I want to learn something, specifically when I'm building out my Claude Co-work system, I could see TLDDR basically how this is running and all these different systems that go into it. It then breaks down the building blocks of this as well as shows three different workflows that we could run and why it matters. So you guys could customize this however you like, but this is the specific output style that I really enjoy. So that way I could take a complex topic and condense it into something that's more digestible for me than just a simple text output. All right, so this next skill again is one of those ones that becomes extremely powerful when we pair this with the next feature that I'm going to show you later on in this video. So make sure to stay so you could really see the full power of this. And this is my competitor intel skill. First, let me give you a quick breakdown on what this is and then I'm going to show you live in action how this works. So, this essentially scans all of my different YouTube competitors and surfaces what's working inside of the AI niche. So, for me, I just drop in five to 10 different competitors channels. It's automatically going to return different themes, viral hits, and specific content gaps that Claude finds in the market in order for me to make videos about. Then, it's going to help me plan content backed by real data instead of me just making content that most people might not be interested in. So, this is a perfect visual right here. It basically searches through these different channels that I specify and then it's going to create an intelligence report in the form of a dashboard for me to read over every single day when I run this. Now, if we come back over to Claude Co-work, you can see I ran the skill competitor Intel. It basically ran this skill and it generates two different things for me. So, let's take a look at these. Now, first we have this markdown file. So, if I open this up, we're going to see a couple of different things. It breaks down the big picture on all the things that discovered. It then comes up with 10 different content ideas that are ranked by the opportunity based on what other people are making videos about. So then it will, you know, give a natural spin on, you know, my channel, how I could cover this in a different way from these other creators. It then shows what I should avoid. So specific things that tons of people have already made videos about. I don't want to just copy them. And one of the best parts about this is it shows the specific patterns that it's finding when doing all this research. And then on top of that, probably my favorite part about this skill is it also generates this HTML dashboard for me. So I could see a visual of all these different content ideas and what I should be focusing on. So if I open this up, let's take a look. So first of all, it talks about the big read, shows the 10 different content ideas, shows everything that's trending in the space, shows what to avoid, and then it shows timing recommendations so I could know which one I should focus on if there's any that are time-sensitive. So, you could probably begin to see how powerful skills are when we tailor these to our specific use cases. This is something that I would spend literally hours every single day doing myself. And now I have Claude Co-work scraping this automatically and sends me this daily report. All right, so this next skill is a pretty unique one. So, this one is called my wrap-up skill. And what this does is this combines everything that Claude Co-work did for me that day as well as everything that I personally did. And then it will create an HTML report so I could see everything that got moved forward inside of my business for that day. So, as you can see in this visual, it's going to break down every single thing that happened and then give me a dashboard breaking down every single thing that went down to show you exactly what I mean. Here is my end of day report for Tuesday, May 26th, 2026. And it breaks down a couple of different things. So, eight different co-work outputs. Personally, I did not do any manual work. And it carried forward three tasks that we've been working on. Then it shows every single thing that Claude Co-work did. So it generated this morning's daily briefing. It built today's inbox triage dashboard, ran the competitor intel skill that I just showed you, and basically did a bunch of different things. So now I could see exactly what I did. Think of this as like an end of day summary on what an employee did. And I could run this whenever I want to be able to see, you know, what I've been working on throughout the day. Then from here, it shows everything that was carried forward, as well as, this is probably my favorite part, it shows tomorrow's number one priority. so I could already know what I should be focusing on tomorrow before the day even starts. If you guys don't know where to start when it comes with creating and using skills across your business inside of Claude Co-work, I curated every single skill that I can't live without that I use every single day, you could find that in my school community. And if you guys want free skills that you guys can use that Enthropic actually created for us, I'm going to show you how you could do that right now. So, first of all, we're going to come inside of the Claude desktop app and then make sure to click on customize. From here, we're going to look at personal plugins. Click on browse plugins. And right here are a bunch of different plugins that Enthropic created for us. If you don't know what a plug-in is, it's basically a bundle of different skills. So, as you can see here, we have specific skills for design. We have specific skills for small business owners. We have specific skills for marketing, legal, and finance. All these different things we could actually download and begin using directly inside of Claude. So, in order to download these, all we do is click on, you know, a skill that we want to download. Click on install. And then now inside of this plugin with all these different, you know, marketing skills, I can now see each of these individual ones I could begin using, and I could customize these to my liking. And this honestly will give you a really good starting point if you don't know how to create skills from scratch. Now, let's say you do have a specific workflow that you know you want to automate with a skill. All you have to do is come over to, you know, cla coowork chat right here and just say something like, I want you to create a skill for me that automatically generates invoices for me for my business. I want you to always use the exact same style. However, I want to change the PO number as well as the invoice number on all of these different invoices. Do it in a format that looks really clean so I could send it to my clients. So, it's as simple as just typing in a prompt like that. Or if you don't even want to type and you want to be lazy just like me, you could use a tool like Aqua Voice. That tool that you just saw, me talking into my computer and it automatically dictated it is called Aqua Voice. There is a link in the description if you guys do want to use this. I have tons of people asking which tool I use in order to do that. So there it is. Go ahead and check it out. So all you have to do is send that and now Claude will begin crafting this skill automatically. All right. So just like that, we now have this new skill for an invoice generator. But if we want to find these skills, we could always come here, click on customize, click on skills, and then just search up invoice generator or whatever the name of the skill is. You could see it right there and you could always make changes to it. Moving on to feature number two. This is where things get extremely interesting. So with skills, we were building the foundation for this next step and this is where we could actually begin using cloud co-work like an actual AI employee that could go and do things for us, you know, without us needing to be on our computer. This next feature is called a scheduled task that allows you to run specific workflows every single day or at a specific cadence whenever you want to run them. So, this could be a very simple task like checking your email or it can be a really complex task of multiple different skills chained together in order to get your work done for you. All right, so let me show you exactly what I mean. If I come to my scheduled tasks inside of Claude Co-work, I have a bunch of different ones running. So, let's walk through a couple of them. I have a morning briefing skill that automatically pulls from my calendar, my email, and find specific AI news for me and then generates an HTML dashboard for me to look at. So, to give you an example of an output, this is what it looks like. This ran this morning at 7:00 a.m. and runs every single morning at 7:00 a.m. for that matter. First of all, what it does is it breaks down my calendar. It shows that I have no meetings today, thankfully. And then it breaks down my email inbox. It gives me suggested replies. It shows all the things that are urgent, specific ones that are worth reviewing. And then it gives me a sense of what I need to work on for that day without me needing to go across these different applications for me to check. Next up, we have a daily wrap-up that runs every single day at 6 p.m. at the end of the day. And this is a skill that we actually created earlier on in this video if you remember. And so, let me pull this up. It's going to create this dashboard for us. It shows all the different clawed co-work outputs. It shows everything that I did for the day. Shows combined progress. Shows everything that was carried forward throughout the day. And then it even shows the top priorities for tomorrow. This is where scheduled task can become really powerful because we could create specific workflows and tasks for our AI employee to do with skills and then we could just chain those together with something like scheduled tasks. Another example is a YouTube competitor scan that runs every single morning at 9:00 a.m. So, I could wake up with this dashboard of an understanding on what's trending in the AI space, what things I could potentially make videos about. And then it even shows me my recommended content actions. So, I could make videos that day and not have to think about what I should be doing. Now, there's a couple of different ways we can begin creating a scheduled task. You could do it in the normal chat mode or you could come over to scheduled, click on new task, click create with Claude and then just explain something we want to run. If we have a skill, for example, we want to focus around, we could just click on forward slash. Give it a, you know, specific skill. Let's just call this one IG carousel skill, which automatically creates, you know, Instagram carousels for me. Then I could just come here and say, "Hey, I want you to generate Instagram carousels for me with this skill every single day at 8 a.m." Then we could just send that off and it will begin building this. And once that is created, we can always see it in our scheduled tasks section inside of Cloud Co. Next up, we have feature number three and this is live artifacts. And this is a fan favorite. This is one that I've really been loving since it released just a couple of weeks ago. So this is basically just a page that pulls live data from your other tools and applications every time you open it and it lives directly inside of Claude. Right here is a perfect visual of what this looks like. We have tool number one, we have tool number two, tool number three, tool number four, all directly plugging into this live page that lives inside of Claude. So in order to show you exactly what I mean, let's take a look at this right here. This is my Claude Co-work operating system that I created and I've shown actually in a previous video. This basically pulls a bunch of different data from my different apps that I use every single day. So, if I come over to this today's plan section, I could see everything that's on my Google calendar. I could see all of my different emails that I need to reply to, ones that are urgent, ones that are, you know, less urgent, etc. I then have this bit.ly tracking dashboard. Instead of me having to go to bit.ly.com com and actually searching, you know, through the dashboard and seeing all the different statistics. I can now see this directly inside of Claude and it always lives right here on the lefthand sidebar. So, whenever I want to see, you know, what videos and what links people are clicking on from my YouTube content, I could just automatically pull this up instead of needing to go to that app. And this is a fundamental shift in kind of how we use our different applications on a day-to-day basis. When we can create specific dashboards for every app that we use on a day-to-day basis and pull information from there, we don't necessarily need to use those apps anymore. We could just, you know, use it in order to generate dashboards like this. All right. So, before we begin building out our live artifacts, we need to do a couple of different things. We first need to connect Claude to any of the different apps that we use that we want to be pulling live information from. Because if we do not connect Gmail, we do not connect Calendar or Stripe, any of these apps we want to use, we won't be able to pull relevant information. So, in order to do this, we're going to come over to the left hand side where it says customize. Click on customize. And from here, we're going to click on connectors if you've never connected one. And in order to connect our app, we just click on add connector. Click browse connectors. And from here, there is a huge list, a bunch of different apps that we can use. Canva, Microsoft 365, Google Calendar, Notion, Atleian, Seamrush, all these different tools we can now begin connecting to. So let's say I want to connect to Docuign for example. I just click on this connect button. It's going to pull up this web page and I need to sign into my docuine account real quickly. I then need to click this open claude app. And then we can now see that our docuign is now connected and we have a list of these connectors that you know we um have added to Claude. Now, let's say there's an app we want to use, but it's not in this list inside of Claude. So, let me show you now exactly how we could begin doing that. I personally use a tool called Zap Your MCP. It's an automation platform that connects to 9,000 plus different apps. So, odds are one of the apps you want to use might be, you know, accessible via this little hack here. So, we're going to click on get started. And this whole process takes maybe about 30 seconds. Once we are signed into an account, we're going to come over and click on new MCP server. We're then going to select Claude Co-work as our client since this is where we are using it. As you can see, I have a couple of different tools that are added. These are all the apps that I've connected so that way Claude can work across all of them inside of this MCP server. In order to add a tool, we just click on add tool. Search through any of the apps that we use on a day-to-day basis. Click on it. We could select all these different tools. These are basically actions it can perform for us. So, it could find tasks from project sauna. It could find a project, find a section in project. All these different things are basically just actions that it can do. Then we would just go sign into our account and then make sure to connect it. And then all of these, you know, apps that we have added are right here. Next, we're just going to click on connect. And this is how we add this to Claude. We're going to click add to Claude. Click on this connect button. Click allow. And then, as you can see on the top right, we are now connected to Zapier. I do want to say this is something that you don't necessarily need unless there is an app you want to connect to that Claw doesn't have directly inside of the app. But I wanted to show this cuz I know this is helpful to a lot of you guys. Now let's move on and begin building a live artifact from scratch so you guys can actually do this. So first of all, we'll come over to the live artifacts tab. This is where all of these are going to live. I have a couple of different ones that I have created. I have my profit and loss statement, a morning inbox, co-work operating system, latest emails dashboard, brand deal operating system. Basically a bunch of different live artifacts that are these mini web apps that I've created on my behalf. So, we could just click on new artifact, click create with Claude, or inside of any chat or task, we could just tell Claude to make us a live artifact. What I'm going to do is just come to a new chat, and then give it a brain dump on exactly what it is I want to create. I found this is the best way to do it myself. All right, so I want you to build a live artifact that pulls my Gmail, my Google calendar every single morning, and I could get a sense of everything I need to focus on for the day. I want you to break down the urgent emails that need my reply along with suggested replies. And then I want you to break down the stuff that's not as urgent. This is my morning command center. So basically I want to be able to log on and look at this in the morning and have a sense on what I need to focus on through that day. So now it's going off and actually building this live artifact. It's using these two different integrations that you know we asked both Gmail and calendar. So you can see it's actually listing these specific events inside of my calendar. So let's come back once this live artifact is actually created. All right, just like that we now have this morning command center on the right hand side. This was created in that one simple prompt. So we could refine this however we would like. But this is a really good starting point. So it shows what day it is. Every meeting that I have, which I have zero today, shows the 24 emails that are urgent that I need to reply to along with a suggested reply. I could even copy that reply and answer directly inside of email. This is great. So this is a good sense of like what you could do with live artifacts. This is one that probably everybody can use. And to show you exactly where this will live, you could always see it on the lefth hand sidebar. So you could pin any of these live artifacts that you would like. Mine is this morning command center right here. So if I pull it up, we can now see this command center that automatically populates my emails. And if you want to see new emails populate, you could just click reload and it will automatically pull from those different applications again. So you could always have live up-to-date information right here. Also, if you click on live artifacts, you can always just browse every single one that you've created and you can connect them and create them right here. All right, guys. There we have it. I hope you enjoyed this video. So, if you want my full Claude Co-work course as well as the 50 plus skills I use every single day, make sure to join my school community. I also do weekly calls in here with a great community of entrepreneurs and professionals using Claude Co-work every single day. If you want free content, make sure to subscribe to this channel for more videos like this. I cover AI for nontechnical people and break it down so simply that anybody can understand it. With that being said, guys, thanks for staying to the end and I'll see you guys in the next