Claude is Now a 24/7 Employee (Cowork Scheduled Tasks)
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Enthropic just quietly added one of the
most underrated features to Claude
Co-op. It can now run tasks on a
schedule even while you're sleeping. So,
in this video, I'm going to show you the
new scheduled task feature and then walk
you through some use cases I'm using
that honestly feel like cheating. And
I'm going to show you how this plus
their new plugins feature they added
yesterday really takes Claude Co-work to
the next level. So, without further ado,
let me show you now. All right. So, I'm
going to quickly explain what the new
Claude Co-work schedule tasks are and
then we're going to dive into some use
cases I've been using. So instead of
having to do manually tasks every single
day, we can now have Claude code do
these for us. We could basically explain
to Claude exactly how we want something
done and it can do this forever. We
could type in a specific command and
pick a cadence, whether that's daily,
weekly, or monthly. And Claude Co-work
can do things such as sorting our email
inbox every day or organizing files
automatically, building reports while we
sleep, and it even connects to 13 new
app connectors that I'm going to show
you in this video. And where this gets
even more powerful is with the new
plugins feature that Claude Co-work just
announced yesterday. If you don't know
what plugins are, they essentially turn
Claude Co-work into a specialist.
There's pre-built plugins for your HR
team, finance, legal, or your sales
team. Or you could even build your own
plugins directly. So now inside of Cloud
Co-work with the new plugins feature, as
well as the scheduled task feature, we
now have our own AI employees for $20
per month that we could train to do
anything. All right. So, to get started,
we first need to download the Claude
desktop app. So, what you're going to do
is you're going to come to claw.com/d
download and make sure to download this.
You could either download this on Mac or
Windows. So, let me pull up Claude
Co-Work now. So, if I open the Claude
desktop app, you can now see that we
have Claude Co-work here if you've never
used this before. All right. So, I want
to show you one use case I'm using right
now inside of Claude Co-work. If we take
a look at my co-work message history
here, you can see that I said, "Look at
my last YouTube video I posted today.
repurpose that video into a LinkedIn
post, post it to the Slack channel named
content and then post it live to
LinkedIn via Buffer. So, if you don't
know what Buffer is, Buffer is basically
a platform that allows me to schedule
posts across any of the platforms that I
use. And I'm actually using Zapier MCP
to connect my Buffer account in order to
schedule posts across all these
different accounts. So, from here, what
Co-work did is it actually found the
video that I posted today. Claude just
got 13 new superpowers. Co-work plugins.
It also provided the URL to the video
and it broke down the key points from
inside of the video and it went ahead
and crafted this LinkedIn post that was
repurposing basically the main premise
of what I talked about in that video but
specific for LinkedIn and LinkedIn copy.
Then what co-work did is it asked if I
should send this to Slack and Buffer.
Now I just said yes please. Next thing
you know it sent this to my Slack
content channel in order for my team to
approve it. And then once it's approved,
it was then post to LinkedIn via Buffer.
If I pull up my Slack now, you could see
that we have our new LinkedIn post that
was ready to publish on Buffer. And I'm
not going to break down this entire
thing, but this is a pretty good
formatted LinkedIn post directly from my
YouTube video. Let me show you which one
I'm referring to. So, it basically took
the main points from this video and
turned that into a LinkedIn post.
However, you're probably wondering like,
Brock, what does scheduled tasks have
anything to do with what I just showed
you? So the power of this is imagine
every single day if it scraped my
YouTube. So if I posted anything and
then if I did it would then
automatically create that LinkedIn post
for me. So I don't need to come to
Claude Co-work and say hey I posted a
video today. Here's a URL. I want you to
repurpose this. It now will
automatically do that for me without me
needing to manually have any input for
it. So let me just come here and say
this is great. I love this workflow. Can
you now do something for me and turn
this into a specific skill? I want the
skill to be called YouTube repurpose
where you automatically go on my YouTube
every single day at 8 a.m. and scrape to
see if I have any new posts and if I do,
I want you to then trigger this workflow
and post to Slack as well as my
LinkedIn. As you could see here, I just
gave it a very basic prompt and was
like, "All right, I love this workflow.
I want you to turn it into a specific
skill. Along with that, there's going to
be a specific command." So whenever I
say YouTube repurpose in chat here, it's
automatically going to, you know, invoke
this specific workflow and then, you
know, do that automatically for me as
well as now it is scheduled every single
day at 8 a.m. Also, I'm going to show
you one of the other powers inside of
Co-work is going back to when it was
going through this workflow. There's
something called Claude in Chrome. And
we could give Co-work the ability to go
and browse my browser. So, so if I pull
up my browser here, you can now see that
I have this Claude button here. And this
automatically can go and control my
browser. So inside of Cloud Co-work, it
could basically invoke that workflow for
it to go off and do things. And that is
exactly how it went to my YouTube video
to extract the key points to repurpose
that into a LinkedIn post. All right, so
we now have a scheduled task inside of
Co-work. Right here, it says, "Every day
at 8 a.m., Claude will automatically
check your YouTube channel for new
uploads. To activate the skill, just
install the skill file and use the
schedule command." So all I have to do
is literally just say schedule if I want
to, you know, invoke this automatically
or manually instead of automatically
every morning. And let me go ahead and
actually open up this skill MD file so
you could see exactly what it did. And
I'm going to talk about why skills are
so powerful inside of Claude Co-work
explained in plain English. Right here
is a markdown file which is basically a
set of instructions on how exactly this
workflow should run every single time.
So, we don't need to give a prompt to
co-work and say, "Hey, I want you to,
you know, automatically scrape my
YouTube videos and then repurpose it to
LinkedIn and here's how I want it
repurposed to LinkedIn." Like, I don't
need to explain that because that is
what this markdown file does. So, let me
quickly talk about co-work skills so you
have a full understanding of this. So, a
skill is a saved workflow where we can
write the instructions once. Claude
memorizes this entire process and it
will run this perfectly every single
time. What goes into a skill file is the
goal, the steps, the tools it should
use, and then the edge cases as if you
know what it should do if something
breaks. So, for example, my YouTube
repurposing system that I just built
turns new videos into LinkedIn posts
because of these six steps inside of
this skill. It checks my YouTube for new
uploads. It pulls a transcript and
description, writes a LinkedIn post,
posts to Slack, cues it to LinkedIn via
Buffer, and then reports back with
confirmation. So now with the scheduled
tasks, I'm able to schedule that skill
on autopilot. So I don't manually need
to be doing this. So the skill knows
what to do. The schedule now knows when
to do it. And I never have to touch this
ever again. One key point here is you
could build a skill for literally
anything. And this is where the plugins
feature inside of Co-work is very, very
crucial. So if we come to plugins here,
you can see we have these different
plugins that we could instantly install
into our coowwork experience. So, I have
a couple already downloaded. So, I have
one for marketing, I have one for
design, or I could even download one for
legal processes. If I come to my
marketing plugin here, I have all these
different commands. So, I don't need to
go and create these markdown files for
skills. They're automatically updated.
So, the reason I bring that up is
because this really supercharges what we
could do with scheduled tasks if we're
using plugins. Plugins are sharable. So,
one person can build it. Now, the entire
team can use it. We can leverage all the
skills we created, all of the workflows,
and now all of the specific scheduled
tasks that we create inside of Co-work.
We can instantly plug this into our
system. So, we could install a plugin in
one click. Now, it's scheduled to run
this automatically. We don't need to set
anything up. It literally just works for
us. Moral of this story, shared plugins
plus scheduled tasks equal autopilot.
This is where AI agents can actually go
off and do things for us without us
needing to give manual input. Let's now
quickly talk about all the different
applications we could tie into co-work
and use for our scheduled tasks or our
plugins. If we come here, you could see
that there's tons of different
connectors directly inside of Claude
that we could go ahead and just
instantly install. So, for example, if I
want to be able to connect to my Gmail,
all I have to do is click continue, give
access to my account, and now Claude
Co-work can access any of my emails as
well as respond to my emails for me. So
going back to Buffer, which is the
platform that I use to schedule my
LinkedIn post for me. The way that I was
able to connect to this because Claude
Co-work doesn't actually have any native
integrations for this specific platform
is what I am doing is I'm using the
Zapier MCP connector. So let me show you
exactly what I mean. If we come to
zapier.com/mcp,
you can see this landing page which says
connect your AI to any app with the
Zapier MCP. So, I'm just going to click
on start building here. And I have this
server that is configured with access to
buffer. We could come here and add any
of these different tools. And the key
thing with Zapier is it basically
connects to 8,000 plus different apps.
And if we come back to co-work, I
believe Claude only, you know, has
access to maybe 50 to 100 different
apps. So, if there are ever apps that
you want to go ahead and connect to, Zap
Your MCP is an amazing way to do this.
So, let me show you exactly how quickly
you could set this up. So you're just
going to enable any of the apps you want
to connect. So let me just connect Gmail
for example and any of the tools we
connect in this server cloud co-work
will have access to. I'm just going to
click on connect and then from here
we're just going to click on copy URL
and then I'm going to come up to
connectors up here. I'm going to click
on add custom connector. I'm going to
call this Zapier. And then I'm just
going to simply paste in that remote MCP
server URL I just got with inside of
Zapier. Here's another use case for
scheduled tasks that has genuinely been
a gamecher for me and my business. If I
come to this chat, you could see I said,
"I want you to create a skill and
command." So, whenever I say research,
you look at all of my competitors
YouTube videos. Then from there, it's
going to generate a document breaking
down the key findings as well as ping me
on Slack about all the key findings and
then also create a HTML file with an
interface breaking down the key
findings. So essentially every single
morning I could understand what's going
on in the space, what should I pay
attention to and what should I maybe
film my content for for you guys to
document, you know, things going on in
the AI space. So a couple things that I
want to highlight here. So if I come
over to my files here that we have
inside of Claude Co-work, we have a
couple of things. We have our
instructions folder. We have our YouTube
markdown. So this is basically what's
breaking down, you know, all of our
competitors that we want to track in the
YouTube space. So we have some amazing
names here. you know, the best people
making content in the AI space that we
want to like stay up to date with
instead of me having to manually scrape.
And if I come down a bit further,
there's a couple of documents that were
created. So, we have this document file,
which is the research report of all of
the findings. So, this is a very broken
down and detailed, you know, breakdown
on what exactly is going down in the AI
space and what it is that I should
actually focus on filming today. And
then on top of that, it even created
this HTML dashboard that is just like an
amazing interface for me to just see
everything that was going on while I was
sleeping. So when I say that Claude
Co-work can do work for you while you
are sleeping, this is the type of stuff
that it could do. This is genuinely
something that would take me hours every
single day to research. And I can now
use Claude Co-work with the scheduled
tasks to do this automatically for me.
All right, guys. There we have it. That
is Claude Co-work and the new scheduled
tasks. If you guys got some value from
this video, please leave a like and
subscribe to this channel. I have tons
more content coming out about Claude
Co-work and different use cases that you
can use right now. Thank you for staying
to the end. I genuinely appreciate every
single one of you. With that being said,
guys, I'll see you guys in the next
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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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