Teach Claude New Skills: Turn AI Into Your Desktop Coworker

Title: Teach Claude New Skills: Turn AI Into Your Desktop Coworker

Description:
Most people use Claude to chat. But what if you could hand it a folder on your computer and say "get this done"?
Claude Cowork is Anthropic's desktop agent that reads, edits, and creates files autonomously. No code required. And with Skills, you can teach Claude exactly how you want work done, then reuse those instructions every time.

In this session we will cover:
How Cowork works. Give Claude access to a folder, describe what you need, and it plans, executes, and delivers finished outputs. Think of it as delegating to a digital coworker rather than prompting a chatbot.

What Skills are and why they matter. Skills are portable instruction packages that make Claude a specialist. Branded slide decks, formatted reports, structured spreadsheets, polished PDFs. You define the playbook once, Claude follows it every time.

Build your first Skill. We will walk through creating a custom Skill from scratch and packaging it as a shareable file anyone can install.

Real workflows, live. File organisation, document generation from messy notes, research synthesis, expense reports from receipt photos, and recurring task automation.

Whether you are a researcher, marketer, analyst, project
manager, or just drowning in desktop busywork, this session will change how you think about working with AI.

Requirements: Claude paid subscription (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise). Claude Desktop app (macOS or Windows).