Learn 95% of Claude Cowork in Under 9 Minutes

FREE — Get my complete Prompt Library + my AI newsletter to stay up to date on everything AI: https://tristenobrien.ai Most people using Claude every day have heard of Cowork and still can't figure out why they'd need it. This video fixes that. I walk through the six things Cowork actually does, four core features plus two that act as superpowers on top of them, and I stick to the parts you'll really use instead of touring every menu. That includes the built-in browser that can work a site you log into every single week, scheduled tasks that keep running while your laptop is shut, and the Record a skill button that lets you show Claude a job one time instead of writing a prompt for it. I also answer the question I get every time, which is why you'd use Cowork instead of Claude Code now that both of them are sitting right there in the same app. CHAPTERS 0:00 Why Cowork is the tool you're sleeping on 0:26 #1 Give It a Job to Do 0:51 Claude Chat vs. Claude Cowork 1:11 Claude Code vs. Cowork — which one you actually need 1:46 #2 Cowork Can Now Use the Browser 2:42 #3 It Keeps Working With Your Laptop Closed 3:38 Scheduling tasks (hourly, daily, weekly) 4:02 The "Keep Computer Awake" setting 4:18 #4 Cowork Follows You Device to Device 4:46 Dispatch: run your computer from your phone 5:13 Dispatch vs. the Cowork app — when to use each 5:55 #5 Connectors (and what MCP really means) 6:47 #6 Skills — teach it once, never re-prompt 7:20 Record a Skill: the easy button 7:39 The pizza-ordering demo 7:58 The warning + which plans get it 8:19 Recap: all 6 in 30 seconds THE SIX, IN ONE PLACE You give it the job, not a question. Cowork lives in the Claude app on desktop, web and mobile. The desktop app is the one that reaches the actual files on your computer. It uses a web browser. A browser opens in the side panel and Claude navigates, reads, clicks and types. Best pointed at the sites that have no app and no integration, like a supplier portal or a payroll site. It keeps working with your laptop closed. The work can run in Anthropic's cloud instead of on your machine, and you can put it on a schedule so you aren't the one starting it. It follows you between devices. Your session is tied to your Claude account, not the machine you started on, so you can pick it up on your phone or on the web mid task. Connectors. How Claude talks to your other apps and services. Powered by MCP, packaged so you just switch one on. Skills. Teach Claude a job once and it knows how you want it done. Record a skill lets you show it instead of typing it.