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Enthropic just quietly added one of the

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most underrated features to Claude

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Co-op. It can now run tasks on a

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schedule even while you're sleeping. So,

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in this video, I'm going to show you the

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new scheduled task feature and then walk

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you through some use cases I'm using

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that honestly feel like cheating. And

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I'm going to show you how this plus

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their new plugins feature they added

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yesterday really takes Claude Co-work to

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the next level. So, without further ado,

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let me show you now. All right. So, I'm

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going to quickly explain what the new

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Claude Co-work schedule tasks are and

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then we're going to dive into some use

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cases I've been using. So instead of

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having to do manually tasks every single

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day, we can now have Claude code do

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these for us. We could basically explain

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to Claude exactly how we want something

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done and it can do this forever. We

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could type in a specific command and

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pick a cadence, whether that's daily,

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weekly, or monthly. And Claude Co-work

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can do things such as sorting our email

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inbox every day or organizing files

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automatically, building reports while we

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sleep, and it even connects to 13 new

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app connectors that I'm going to show

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you in this video. And where this gets

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even more powerful is with the new

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plugins feature that Claude Co-work just

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announced yesterday. If you don't know

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what plugins are, they essentially turn

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Claude Co-work into a specialist.

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There's pre-built plugins for your HR

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team, finance, legal, or your sales

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team. Or you could even build your own

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plugins directly. So now inside of Cloud

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Co-work with the new plugins feature, as

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well as the scheduled task feature, we

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now have our own AI employees for $20

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per month that we could train to do

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anything. All right. So, to get started,

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we first need to download the Claude

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desktop app. So, what you're going to do

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is you're going to come to claw.com/d

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download and make sure to download this.

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You could either download this on Mac or

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Windows. So, let me pull up Claude

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Co-Work now. So, if I open the Claude

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desktop app, you can now see that we

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have Claude Co-work here if you've never

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used this before. All right. So, I want

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to show you one use case I'm using right

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now inside of Claude Co-work. If we take

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a look at my co-work message history

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here, you can see that I said, "Look at

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my last YouTube video I posted today.

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repurpose that video into a LinkedIn

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post, post it to the Slack channel named

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content and then post it live to

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LinkedIn via Buffer. So, if you don't

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know what Buffer is, Buffer is basically

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a platform that allows me to schedule

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posts across any of the platforms that I

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use. And I'm actually using Zapier MCP

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to connect my Buffer account in order to

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schedule posts across all these

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different accounts. So, from here, what

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Co-work did is it actually found the

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video that I posted today. Claude just

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got 13 new superpowers. Co-work plugins.

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It also provided the URL to the video

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and it broke down the key points from

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inside of the video and it went ahead

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and crafted this LinkedIn post that was

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repurposing basically the main premise

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of what I talked about in that video but

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specific for LinkedIn and LinkedIn copy.

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Then what co-work did is it asked if I

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should send this to Slack and Buffer.

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Now I just said yes please. Next thing

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you know it sent this to my Slack

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content channel in order for my team to

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approve it. And then once it's approved,

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it was then post to LinkedIn via Buffer.

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If I pull up my Slack now, you could see

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that we have our new LinkedIn post that

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was ready to publish on Buffer. And I'm

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not going to break down this entire

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thing, but this is a pretty good

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formatted LinkedIn post directly from my

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YouTube video. Let me show you which one

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I'm referring to. So, it basically took

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the main points from this video and

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turned that into a LinkedIn post.

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However, you're probably wondering like,

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Brock, what does scheduled tasks have

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anything to do with what I just showed

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you? So the power of this is imagine

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every single day if it scraped my

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YouTube. So if I posted anything and

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then if I did it would then

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automatically create that LinkedIn post

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for me. So I don't need to come to

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Claude Co-work and say hey I posted a

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video today. Here's a URL. I want you to

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repurpose this. It now will

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automatically do that for me without me

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needing to manually have any input for

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it. So let me just come here and say

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this is great. I love this workflow. Can

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you now do something for me and turn

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this into a specific skill? I want the

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skill to be called YouTube repurpose

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where you automatically go on my YouTube

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every single day at 8 a.m. and scrape to

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see if I have any new posts and if I do,

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I want you to then trigger this workflow

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and post to Slack as well as my

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LinkedIn. As you could see here, I just

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gave it a very basic prompt and was

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like, "All right, I love this workflow.

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I want you to turn it into a specific

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skill. Along with that, there's going to

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be a specific command." So whenever I

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say YouTube repurpose in chat here, it's

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automatically going to, you know, invoke

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this specific workflow and then, you

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know, do that automatically for me as

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well as now it is scheduled every single

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day at 8 a.m. Also, I'm going to show

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you one of the other powers inside of

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Co-work is going back to when it was

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going through this workflow. There's

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something called Claude in Chrome. And

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we could give Co-work the ability to go

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and browse my browser. So, so if I pull

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up my browser here, you can now see that

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I have this Claude button here. And this

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automatically can go and control my

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browser. So inside of Cloud Co-work, it

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could basically invoke that workflow for

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it to go off and do things. And that is

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exactly how it went to my YouTube video

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to extract the key points to repurpose

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that into a LinkedIn post. All right, so

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we now have a scheduled task inside of

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Co-work. Right here, it says, "Every day

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at 8 a.m., Claude will automatically

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check your YouTube channel for new

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uploads. To activate the skill, just

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install the skill file and use the

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schedule command." So all I have to do

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is literally just say schedule if I want

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to, you know, invoke this automatically

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or manually instead of automatically

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every morning. And let me go ahead and

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actually open up this skill MD file so

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you could see exactly what it did. And

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I'm going to talk about why skills are

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so powerful inside of Claude Co-work

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explained in plain English. Right here

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is a markdown file which is basically a

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set of instructions on how exactly this

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workflow should run every single time.

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So, we don't need to give a prompt to

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co-work and say, "Hey, I want you to,

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you know, automatically scrape my

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YouTube videos and then repurpose it to

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LinkedIn and here's how I want it

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repurposed to LinkedIn." Like, I don't

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need to explain that because that is

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what this markdown file does. So, let me

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quickly talk about co-work skills so you

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have a full understanding of this. So, a

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skill is a saved workflow where we can

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write the instructions once. Claude

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memorizes this entire process and it

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will run this perfectly every single

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time. What goes into a skill file is the

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goal, the steps, the tools it should

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use, and then the edge cases as if you

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know what it should do if something

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breaks. So, for example, my YouTube

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repurposing system that I just built

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turns new videos into LinkedIn posts

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because of these six steps inside of

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this skill. It checks my YouTube for new

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uploads. It pulls a transcript and

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description, writes a LinkedIn post,

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posts to Slack, cues it to LinkedIn via

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Buffer, and then reports back with

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confirmation. So now with the scheduled

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tasks, I'm able to schedule that skill

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on autopilot. So I don't manually need

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to be doing this. So the skill knows

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what to do. The schedule now knows when

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to do it. And I never have to touch this

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ever again. One key point here is you

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could build a skill for literally

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anything. And this is where the plugins

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feature inside of Co-work is very, very

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crucial. So if we come to plugins here,

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you can see we have these different

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plugins that we could instantly install

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into our coowwork experience. So, I have

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a couple already downloaded. So, I have

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one for marketing, I have one for

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design, or I could even download one for

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legal processes. If I come to my

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marketing plugin here, I have all these

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different commands. So, I don't need to

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go and create these markdown files for

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skills. They're automatically updated.

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So, the reason I bring that up is

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because this really supercharges what we

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could do with scheduled tasks if we're

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using plugins. Plugins are sharable. So,

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one person can build it. Now, the entire

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team can use it. We can leverage all the

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skills we created, all of the workflows,

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and now all of the specific scheduled

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tasks that we create inside of Co-work.

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We can instantly plug this into our

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system. So, we could install a plugin in

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one click. Now, it's scheduled to run

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this automatically. We don't need to set

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anything up. It literally just works for

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us. Moral of this story, shared plugins

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plus scheduled tasks equal autopilot.

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This is where AI agents can actually go

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off and do things for us without us

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needing to give manual input. Let's now

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quickly talk about all the different

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applications we could tie into co-work

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and use for our scheduled tasks or our

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plugins. If we come here, you could see

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that there's tons of different

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connectors directly inside of Claude

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that we could go ahead and just

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instantly install. So, for example, if I

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want to be able to connect to my Gmail,

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all I have to do is click continue, give

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access to my account, and now Claude

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Co-work can access any of my emails as

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well as respond to my emails for me. So

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going back to Buffer, which is the

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platform that I use to schedule my

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LinkedIn post for me. The way that I was

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able to connect to this because Claude

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Co-work doesn't actually have any native

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integrations for this specific platform

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is what I am doing is I'm using the

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Zapier MCP connector. So let me show you

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exactly what I mean. If we come to

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zapier.com/mcp,

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you can see this landing page which says

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connect your AI to any app with the

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Zapier MCP. So, I'm just going to click

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on start building here. And I have this

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server that is configured with access to

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buffer. We could come here and add any

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of these different tools. And the key

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thing with Zapier is it basically

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connects to 8,000 plus different apps.

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And if we come back to co-work, I

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believe Claude only, you know, has

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access to maybe 50 to 100 different

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apps. So, if there are ever apps that

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you want to go ahead and connect to, Zap

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Your MCP is an amazing way to do this.

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So, let me show you exactly how quickly

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you could set this up. So you're just

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going to enable any of the apps you want

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to connect. So let me just connect Gmail

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for example and any of the tools we

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connect in this server cloud co-work

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will have access to. I'm just going to

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click on connect and then from here

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we're just going to click on copy URL

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and then I'm going to come up to

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connectors up here. I'm going to click

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on add custom connector. I'm going to

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call this Zapier. And then I'm just

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going to simply paste in that remote MCP

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server URL I just got with inside of

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Zapier. Here's another use case for

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scheduled tasks that has genuinely been

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a gamecher for me and my business. If I

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come to this chat, you could see I said,

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"I want you to create a skill and

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command." So, whenever I say research,

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you look at all of my competitors

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YouTube videos. Then from there, it's

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going to generate a document breaking

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down the key findings as well as ping me

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on Slack about all the key findings and

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then also create a HTML file with an

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interface breaking down the key

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findings. So essentially every single

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morning I could understand what's going

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on in the space, what should I pay

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attention to and what should I maybe

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film my content for for you guys to

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document, you know, things going on in

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the AI space. So a couple things that I

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want to highlight here. So if I come

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over to my files here that we have

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inside of Claude Co-work, we have a

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couple of things. We have our

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instructions folder. We have our YouTube

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markdown. So this is basically what's

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breaking down, you know, all of our

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competitors that we want to track in the

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YouTube space. So we have some amazing

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names here. you know, the best people

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making content in the AI space that we

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want to like stay up to date with

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instead of me having to manually scrape.

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And if I come down a bit further,

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there's a couple of documents that were

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created. So, we have this document file,

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which is the research report of all of

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the findings. So, this is a very broken

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down and detailed, you know, breakdown

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on what exactly is going down in the AI

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space and what it is that I should

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actually focus on filming today. And

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then on top of that, it even created

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this HTML dashboard that is just like an

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amazing interface for me to just see

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everything that was going on while I was

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sleeping. So when I say that Claude

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Co-work can do work for you while you

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are sleeping, this is the type of stuff

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that it could do. This is genuinely

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something that would take me hours every

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single day to research. And I can now

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use Claude Co-work with the scheduled

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tasks to do this automatically for me.

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All right, guys. There we have it. That

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is Claude Co-work and the new scheduled

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tasks. If you guys got some value from

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this video, please leave a like and

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subscribe to this channel. I have tons

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more content coming out about Claude

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Co-work and different use cases that you

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can use right now. Thank you for staying

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to the end. I genuinely appreciate every

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single one of you. With that being said,

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guys, I'll see you guys in the next

Interactive Summary

Entropic has added a new scheduled task feature to Claude Co-work, allowing it to automate tasks like email sorting, file organization, and report building, even while the user is away. This feature, combined with new plugins and app connectors, enables Claude to act as an AI employee. It can perform complex workflows, such as repurposing YouTube videos for LinkedIn, and conducting competitor research, creating reports and dashboards automatically. The platform also leverages "skills" as saved, repeatable workflows and can connect to thousands of additional applications via Zapier MCP, significantly expanding its automation capabilities.

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