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 Cowork?
  • Getting set up
  • Running your first task
  • The task loop
  • Giving Cowork context
  • Making Claude Cowork yours
  • Plugins: Cowork as a specialist
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Claude Cowork in practice
  • File & document tasks
  • Research & analysis at scale
  • Working responsibly
  • Permissions, usage, & choosing your model
  • Troubleshooting & 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 Cowork?
  • Getting set up
  • Running your first task
  • The task loop
  • Giving Cowork context
  • Making Claude Cowork yours
  • Plugins: Cowork as a specialist
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Claude Cowork in practice
  • File & document tasks
  • Research & analysis at scale
  • Working responsibly
  • Permissions, usage, & choosing your model
  • Troubleshooting & next steps
  • Check your understanding
  • Quiz on Claude Cowork