Anthropic just released Claude Co-work

plugins and this basically lets anyone

access AI employees in minutes. In this

video, I'm going to break down simply

what Claude Co-work plugins are and show

you some wild use cases you can begin

using right now. So, without further

ado, let's dive into this. All right, so

what is a Claude Co-work plugin? I'm

going to explain very simply right now.

Think of a plugin as a pre-built expert

that you can install as if it's an AI

agent running on your computer for

specific tasks. This bundles skills,

commands, and connectors. A skill is a

written instruction for how you want

Claude to work. So, you could have

specific skills for specific tasks, and

it's basically a long list of

instruction that Claude knows how to use

every time you want to perform this

task. And slash commands are one-click

workflows for you and your team. So,

essentially, you could just type slash

onboard, and then Claude will run the

entire onboarding process for you based

on that skill that you created. and

connectors pull live data from your

actual app. So if you're using Gmail,

Slack or Excel, you could access all

those different applications. And the

key thing with this release from

Enthropic is that each department now

gets its own plugin. So you could have

HR plugins, finance plugins, or even

engineering plugins. And let me break

this down simply. So, if you are using

the HR plugin, you now have specific

skills to screen and rank resumes, write

job descriptions, draft offer letters,

build on boarding flows, and you also

have access to these specific commands

that invoke these skills. And on top of

that, the HR plugin also has specific

connectors for this specific department.

And moving on to the finance plugin, you

could obviously have skills to build

financial models or analyze earning

reports, write budget summaries, all

these different things. And again, we

have these slash commands here that

invoke those skills. And same thing for

engineering. So basically any department

you could think of now gets their own

commands that you can instantly plug in

and install into your clawed co-work.

And the best part about this is the

admin to your team can install this once

and your whole entire company can get

every single one of these plugins

automatically. So now that we know what

these plugins are, I'm going to show you

exactly how they work. So all right, so

the first thing you want to do is come

to claude.com/down

and you need to download the Claude

desktop app to your computer. All right,

so here is the claw desktop user

interface. Up top, we have the chat

mode, we have co-work mode, and we have

code mode. Code mode is great. It could

do a bunch of different things for you,

but it could be a bit complex, and that

is exactly where Claude Co-work comes in

handy. So, if you're a non-technical

person, this is a great way to begin,

you know, harnessing the power of Claude

code, but in a much simpler interface.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to

go ahead and connect a folder here. So,

let me create a new one. I'm going to

call this Claude Co-work. And just like

that, I'm going to go ahead and open up

my folder here. So now we could begin

making changes to this folder. We could

add different files to this folder. All

these different things directly inside

of Claude Co-work. Now what I'm going to

do is I'm going to come over and show

you how exactly to begin installing

these different plugins and go through a

couple of different use cases with these

plugins that you can begin using. Right

now I'm going to click on browse

plugins. Right here we have a couple of

different options. So we have a finance

plugin, we have a legal plugin, we have

a marketing plugin. all of these

different plugins that we could begin

installing into our Cloud Co-work. So,

let me show you exactly what it looks

like once I install this. So, let's say

we want to install this marketing one.

And now I can come over here and click

on manage. And inside of this plugin

here, we get a couple of different

things. We have our commands. And if you

don't know what a command is, again,

it's just basically you type slash a

specific word and it will go and invoke

a specific workflow. So, for example,

whenever I use the command brand review,

this is a specific workflow that it will

run when I use that command. as well as

we could have a campaign planning one.

We have a competitor brief. We have

draft content, email sequence, all that

stuff inside of the plug-in that I just

downloaded for marketing. All of this

stuff comes preloaded. Think about it

like this. If you have a specific

workflow or task that either you or

somebody in your company or your

business has that they usually go off

and do, you can now package this into a

plugin. And now whenever somebody is

onboarded to your team, for example,

they now have access to these entire

workflows directly inside of Cloud

Co-work. And that is what makes these so

powerful. So let me come back. I'm going

to show you exactly how to, you know,

use this. Now I'm going to click on

slash plugins. Go to marketing. Let's do

campaign plan. And I'm just going to say

Claude Co-work Plugins because I'm

interested to see what a campaign would

be for, you know, for a marketing

campaign for Claude Co-work Plugins.

It's just an example because it just

launched. So what this is doing now is

it's loading our set of instructions

here. So now it's going to ask us a

couple of different questions here

because this was predefined inside of

that plan from this specific command.

What is our goal of this campaign? We're

going to attract new users, end users,

two week sprint, and we only want

organic content here. So now that it has

this context, it's going to now go

through this workflow. All right. So a

couple of minutes later, it now created

this markdown file for us. If I open

this up, you can now see that we have a

campaign plan for Claude Co-work

Plugins, new user acquisition because

that was the goal of this campaign. It's

a two-eek organic sprint and it was

prepared on February 25th. And so it

breaks down how we could go about this

specific campaign is because this is

specified inside of this specific

command and skill. Whenever we use the

command campaign plan, it's always going

to give an output exactly like this. And

that is what is so powerful about this

because you can essentially customize

your workflow and then make sure every

single time that you need to run this,

it's going to be super consistent with

how you want it to be formatted. I mean,

taking a look at this, this is extremely

solid. And before, if I wanted to like

come up with this myself or even have AI

do it for me, I'd have to have a very

very specific prompt and we don't have

to do that now. It just knows how to do

this whenever I, you know, use this

specific command. All right, so that's

pretty cool. This is a marketing use

case. However, let me go back to our

plugins and take a look at some of the

other ones that we could begin

installing across our co-work interface.

So, let's say that we do a lot of

financial stuff. We could go ahead and

install this one. We have a legal one as

well. So, I'm going to install the legal

one because everybody needs a bit of

legal help every now and again. So, what

I'm going to do is I could actually go

ahead and select legal right here. And

it's going to have a couple of preloaded

like prompts to give me ideas on exactly

what it could do. So, let me click on

review contract. And then I'm going to

upload a specific contract here for it

to go ahead and review. All right. I'm

going to click let's go. And now co-work

is going to do its thing. All right. So,

it's asking us a couple of follow-up

questions here. So, I am the disclosing

party. Let's say I want just a general

review. So, now that it has its specific

context that it needs, it's going to go

ahead and do this contract review for

me. All right. So, now we get two

separate documents that it generated

about this contract review. Now, we have

this non-disclosure agreement. So this

is basically the exact contract that I

had, but it actually goes through and

red lines them. You could see this

yellow highlight here and this text.

This is basically all this stuff that

it's like basically saying, you know,

you should look into this further. This

isn't exactly, you know, how we want it

to be structured. All those different

things. So it generated this document

for me on autopilot. And then also we

have an NDA review summary. So this is a

separate document that it created for me

with the contract review summary. So it

basically breaks down the key findings.

Basically rates down each of these

clauses here. So if it gets a green

light that that means that clause is

good to go. If it has yellow means that

there's like maybe some other stuff we

should look into. And if it was, you

know, if there was something that was

like very very, you know, urgent that we

needed to take care of, it would be in

red as well. We have this document that

basically breaks down all this

information for me. And again, all I had

to do was upload a specific

non-disclosure agreement contract and it

automatically outputs all of this

because it knows exactly how to function

because of this legal plugin that we

added. Next use case that I'm going to

show is this human resources plugins. I

want to use this one for a couple of

specific reasons. I'm in the process of

hiring a couple of people for my agency

and I would love to basically just drop

in different résumés and have this

automatically vet and basically see if

these would be good hires for my

company. We have a couple of different

commands and skills inside of here. So,

we have comp analysis. We have draft

offer which will draft an offer letter

with comp details and terms. There's an

onboarding command here. People report,

performance review, all this different

stuff. So, let me go ahead and try one

of these out. All right. All right. So,

coming back over to Claude Co-work, I'm

going to go to our new human resources

plugin here, and let's go through a

couple of these different commands. I

like this onboarding one. So, let's say

that I decide to, you know, hire this

person. This will generate an onboarding

checklist and first week plan for this

new hire. So, I'm going to click on

this. And now, it's going to break down

or it's basically going to ask me a

couple of qualifying things here. So,

what role is a new hire joining? This

would actually be a marketing or

communications role. So, I'm click let's

go. Now, it's going to go through this

workflow. a couple of more questions

that it's asking me. So, this would be a

content marketing specialist to be

determined. And then, what format would

you like the onboarding plan? Let's do

maybe a markdown file. So, now it's

going to generate this for me. Now, we

have this very comprehensive markdown

file that it created for us. Basically

breaking down the onboarding plan for

this specific employee for our content

marketing specialist. So, you could see

that there's actually this schedule

here. Day one, it's breaking down all

this stuff. And obviously, this is not

tailored to my business. So, this is not

going to be accurate information.

However, I'm going to show you how we

could go ahead and customize this to our

business now. Because right now, this

plugin is pretty general. It's not

specific to, you know, each individual

company. So, what I'm going to do is I'm

going to come over to customize. I'm

going to select the human resources

plugin here, and I'm going to click

customize. And what this is going to do

is this will customize the human

resources plugin for me based on my

company. So, since Claude and Claude

Co-work specifically understands exactly

what it is I do and how I operate based

on all the context from my previous

conversations, it will then customize

and um mold this plugin directly for my

company. So that way we could begin

using this instead of it being very

general and not kind of pertaining to

us. Since Claude understands what tools

my team uses internally, we use Slack,

we use Gmail, notion, and Google

Calendar. It now basically broke down

that you know our new team member needs

to begin using these. So what I could do

is I could go go ahead and connect all

of these different applications now. All

right. So since it just added the Google

calendar connection here, I basically

asked it what meetings do I have on my

calendar for Wednesday? And it was able

to pull that from that specific

application. And let's talk about all

the different apps that you could

connect with right now inside of Claude

Co-work that you could then use in these

plugins. First of all, let me come over

to customize. We're going to then come

to connect to your tools. So, we have a

couple of different connectors here that

we could begin using. And we could

scroll through all of these right now

and begin setting up each individual

connector to our, you know, Claude

Co-work session. What I'm going to do is

I'm going to show you a hack that could

connect Claude Co-work to any of the

apps that you use. This connects to

8,000 plus apps as well as you have

30,000 plus actions you could perform

across those apps. If you have, you

know, apps that aren't listed here, this

will probably be a solution for you. So,

you're going to come to zapier.com/mcp.

Sign up or log into your account. And

then from here, we're going to select

new MCP server. So, if you don't know

what an MCP server is, it's basically

one location that connects you to all

the different applications that you use.

So, we're able to connect to any app

that Zapier connects to just by toggling

it on. And we don't need to manually

configure this. So, for our new MCP

server client, we're going to click on

cloud co-work. And then from here, we

could go ahead and add any of the

different tools that we use on a

day-to-day basis. So, for example, let's

say that I use Hey Gen, which is an AI

avatar platform. We could then generate

videos on autopilot just by using the

Zapier MCP. So, I'm going to select this

tool, click connect. It's as simple as

just like signing into my account, and

we can now add nine of these different

tools from a gen specifically. You can

see we already have Google Docs added

here. And in order for us to connect

this to Claude Co-Work, we're just going

to come to connect, click on copy URL,

and we're going to come back to Claude

Co-work. Go to connectors. I'm going to

search up Zapier. We're going to click

on connect and then we're going to paste

in that specific server URL that we got

from Zapier. Now we could access any of

the apps that we configured. And if you

ever want to change this and have a

couple other apps that you want to add

over time, it's as simple as just coming

back to the server and then adding it.

So for example, we could just simply add

our ClickUp account here and it's as

simple as doing that. It literally just

takes a couple of clicks. All right. So

now I want you to think about this.

Every department in your company now has

an AI that already knows their job. So

whether that's HR, finance, engineering,

design, marketing, operations, all these

different departments now have these

pre-builtin set of instructions or AI

agents so to say that can automatically

do this stuff for you. So if you're a

business and you have a specific

marketing task that you want your team

to be able to go off and do, you can now

create a specific plug-in and deploy

that to everybody on your marketing

team. And this is as simple as building

it in plain English. every interaction

you have with Claude, you could

basically say, "Hey, I want you to turn

this into a skill or a command." And

once you have a combination of all these

different skills and commands, you can

now package that as a plug-in and deploy

that to your team. I want you to realize

how impactful this is going to be

because now we could instantly upskill

our employees or team members on our

team in order to implement AI without

them having to go and build these

pre-built automations and whatnot. So,

plugins inside of Cloud Co-work really

kind of level up what is capable with AI

if you're using it on a day-to-day

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