Anthropic Academy Courses

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects. This hands-on course covers the Cowork task loop, plugins and skills, file and research workflows, and how to steer multi-step work responsibly — so you're productive in your first week.

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About this course

Cowork is Claude working directly with your files, folders, and apps — reading, editing, and producing real outputs on your machine. Where Chat is a conversation, Cowork is a working session: you describe the task, Claude plans and executes it, and you steer along the way. 

This course gets you from first launch to confident daily use. You'll run your first end-to-end task, learn how context shapes Claude's plan, set up plugins and skills that match your work, and practice the kind of steering that keeps longer-running tasks on track.

     

Curriculum

  • Meet Claude Cowork
  • What is Claude Cowork
  • Setting up Claude Cowork
  • What Claude Cowork can do for you
  • Hand Claude Cowork your first task
  • Make Claude Cowork yours
  • Get better results faster
  • Standing context: Global instructions and projects
  • Skills: Teach Claude Cowork your way
  • Plugins: Encode your team's expertise
  • Use Claude wherever you work
  • Claude in Chrome
  • Claude for Microsoft 365
  • Sharing and safety in Claude Cowork
  • Best practices for working safely
  • Validating skills for plugins
  • Share what you build with your team
  • Wrap up and next steps
  • Check your understanding
  • Quiz on Claude Cowork

About this course

Cowork is Claude working directly with your files, folders, and apps — reading, editing, and producing real outputs on your machine. Where Chat is a conversation, Cowork is a working session: you describe the task, Claude plans and executes it, and you steer along the way. 

This course gets you from first launch to confident daily use. You'll run your first end-to-end task, learn how context shapes Claude's plan, set up plugins and skills that match your work, and practice the kind of steering that keeps longer-running tasks on track.

     

Curriculum

  • Meet Claude Cowork
  • What is Claude Cowork
  • Setting up Claude Cowork
  • What Claude Cowork can do for you
  • Hand Claude Cowork your first task
  • Make Claude Cowork yours
  • Get better results faster
  • Standing context: Global instructions and projects
  • Skills: Teach Claude Cowork your way
  • Plugins: Encode your team's expertise
  • Use Claude wherever you work
  • Claude in Chrome
  • Claude for Microsoft 365
  • Sharing and safety in Claude Cowork
  • Best practices for working safely
  • Validating skills for plugins
  • Share what you build with your team
  • Wrap up and next steps
  • Check your understanding
  • Quiz on Claude Cowork