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Claude Code & Cowork Masterclass 2026: Build AI Apps, Autonomous Agents & Business Automation with Skills, Plugins & MCP

Master Claude Code, Cowork, Agent Skills, Plugins & MCP to ship full-stack AI apps, automate finance, legal, marketing and research workflows, and deploy autonomous agent teams — no prior coding required.

8 Chapters

118 Lessons

916 min total

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Master Claude Code and Cowork to automate real business work — no coding required Companies are scrambling to hire people who can operate Claude end-to-end. This masterclass makes you that operator: a power user of Claud...

What you'll learn

Masterclass Introduction, Outcomes & Workspace Setup
Claude Cowork, Skills & Plugins for Workflow Automation
Claude Chat Mastery: Research, Writing & Prompt Engineering
Claude in Microsoft Excel: Data Analysis & Wall Street Modeling
Claude in PowerPoint: Branded Decks & Executive Reports
Claude Code Foundations: Setup, Slash Commands, Skills, Hooks & Plugins

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Engr. Mejba Ahmed

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About This Course

Master Claude Code and Cowork to automate real business work — no coding required

Companies are scrambling to hire people who can operate Claude end-to-end. This masterclass makes you that operator: a power user of Claude Code (the agentic terminal that ships full-stack apps) and Claude Cowork (the desktop AI that runs finance, legal, marketing, and research workflows) — with no prior coding experience assumed.

Across 8 build-on-each-other sections you learn to automate the work businesses actually pay for.

What you'll learn:

Cowork, Skills & Plugins — automate file and Excel work, connect Gmail/Slack/Salesforce via MCP, and build data-cleaning and financial plugins end-to-end
Claude Chat mastery — repeatable research-and-charts pipelines, prompt-engineering patterns (CoT, ReAct, self-critique), and long-form writing without the generic AI tone
Claude in Excel — natural-language data analysis, and Wall-Street-style DCF and LBO modeling
Claude in PowerPoint — branded, executive-ready decks from a single prompt, with auto speaker notes
Claude Code foundations — setup in the desktop app and VS Code, slash commands, Skills, hooks, plugins, MCP servers, and subagents
Full-stack apps — build a real app with Claude Code, using CLAUDE.md and context tactics plus Ralph loops for quality
Autonomous agents & teams — agent anatomy, the OpenAI Agents SDK, and designing multi-agent teams with roles, handoffs, and orchestration

Who this is for: anyone — coder or not — who wants to turn Claude into a business-automation and app-building engine. By the end you'll ship apps, automate cross-tool workflows, and deploy autonomous agent teams.

Who this course is for

Learners at any level

Developers building real-world skills

Anyone serious about Artificial Intelligence

Suitable for all levels — from newcomers to experienced practitioners.

Course Curriculum

8 chapters 118 lessons 916 min

10 lessons available to preview

1 Why Claude Code & Cowork Will Reshape Your 2026 Workflow

Preview 9min

2 Course Roadmap: How the 8 Sections Build on Each Other

Preview 7min

3 Success Habits to Get the Most From This Masterclass

4min

4 Download Course Resources, Datasets & Workspace Files

1min

1 What Is Claude Cowork? Concepts & Real-World Use Cases

Preview 11min

2 Cowork Architecture: How the Desktop Agent Operates Safely

7min

3 Hands-On Demo: File Organization & Excel Skill Walkthrough

15min

4 Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Connectors Explained

7min

5 Hands-On Demo: Connect Gmail to Cowork & Send Smart Replies

8min

6 Tokens & Context Windows: The Cost-of-Thinking Mental Model

10min

7 Practice Question: Estimate Tokens for a Real Workflow

1min

8 Practice Solution: Walking Through the Token Estimate

4min

9 Agent Skills Deep Dive: Anatomy of a SKILL.md File

17min

10 Practical Demo: Build a LinkedIn Post Skill End-to-End

15min

11 Claude Plugins: Marketplaces, Install Flow & Sandboxing

Preview 7min

12 Data Cleaning Plugin Build — Part 1: Plugin Scaffold

10min

13 Data Cleaning Plugin Build — Part 2: Pandas Steps & Validation

11min

14 Data Cleaning Plugin Build — Part 3: Reports & Edge Cases

6min

15 Practice Question: Pick the Right Visualization for the Data

1min

16 Practice Solution: Choosing Charts for the Data Story

7min

17 Data Plugin — Part 4: Statistical Analysis & PowerPoint Output

10min

18 Financial Forecasting in Cowork Using Skills

Preview 14min

19 Build a Finance Plugin — Part 1: Inputs & Assumptions

13min

20 Build a Finance Plugin — Part 2: DCF Engine & Sensitivities

12min

21 Build a Finance Plugin — Part 3: Reports, Tests & Packaging

9min

22 Connect Slack & Salesforce to Cowork via MCP for Cross-Tool Automation

10min

23 Section Recap: Your Cowork Operator Cheat Sheet

5min

1 Research + Charts in Pure Chat: A Repeatable Pipeline

8min

2 Prompt Engineering Fundamentals: Role, Goal, Constraints

9min

3 Advanced Prompt Patterns: CoT, ReAct & Self-Critique

8min

4 Deep Research Mode: When to Use It & How to Steer It

10min

5 Long-Form Creative Writing Without the Generic AI Tone

6min

6 Brainstorming Frameworks That Beat "Give Me Ideas"

3min

7 Front-End Design Skill: Dashboard from a One-Line Brief

9min

8 PDF → Excel + PowerPoint Financial Extraction Walkthrough

7min

9 One-Pager Financial Summary with the PPTX Skill

Preview 6min

10 Learning Mode: Master Any Topic Faster with Claude Chat

5min

11 Coding in Chat: When Chat Wins Over the IDE

4min

12 Writing Workflows: Drafts, Edits & Style Locking

6min

13 Image Generation: Claude vs. Gemini — Honest Comparison

4min

1 Module Intro & Learning Objectives: Claude in Excel

Preview 5min

2 Installing & Authorizing the Claude Excel Add-In

2min

3 Generating Data Insights from Raw Sheets

8min

4 Statistical Summaries & Conditional Row Filters

5min

5 In-Sheet Data Visualization with Claude

6min

6 Sort Datasets Like a Pro Using Natural Language

3min

7 Filter Datasets with Free-Form Claude Prompts

2min

8 Conditional Formatting & Color-Coding via Claude

3min

9 Imputing Missing Values Without Breaking the Distribution

8min

10 Build Wall Street-Style Models with Cowork + Excel

Preview 11min

11 Discounted Cash Flow Modeling Intuition Refresher

7min

12 Build a DCF in Claude Step-By-Step

9min

13 Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Concepts Explained Plainly

6min

14 Build an LBO Financial Model in Claude

4min

15 Practice Question: Excel Data Analysis Scenario

3min

16 Practice Solution: Walking Through the Analysis

12min

1 Module Goals & Installing the Claude PowerPoint Add-In

4min

2 Generate Branded Decks from a Single Prompt

11min

3 Auto-Add Speaker Notes for Every Slide

4min

4 Slide Design Polish: Layout, Hierarchy & Color

6min

5 Source Online Content & Re-Tone Slide Copy

7min

6 Convert Long PDFs into Executive-Ready Decks

8min

7 Summarize & Re-Order Existing PPTX Files

7min

8 Generate Decks from a Locked Brand Template

5min

9 Practice Coaching: Claude Reviews Your Delivery

5min

10 Claude vs. Copilot vs. NotebookLM for Decks

10min

1 Method 1: Claude Code in the Desktop App

8min

2 Method 2: Claude Code Inside VS Code (Full Setup)

12min

3 Quick Reference: Mac & Windows Install Commands

1min

4 The Claude Code Mental Model: The Agentic Terminal Loop

12min

5 Project 1 — Landing Page with Pure Claude Code (Part A)

16min

6 Skills in Claude Code: Front-End Design Skill Tour

11min

7 Installing & Verifying the Front-End Design Skill

9min

8 Project 1 — Landing Page Powered by Front-End Skill (Part B)

12min

9 Project Skills vs. .claude Skills: Which Wins & Why

3min

10 Practice Question: Pet Grooming Landing Page Brief

3min

11 Practice Solution: Building the Pet Grooming Page

11min

12 Slash Commands: Anatomy & Reusable Workflows

Preview 12min

13 Project 2 — Build a Brand Slash Command (Part 1)

8min

14 Project 2 — Slash Command Logic & Arguments (Part 2)

11min

15 Project 2 — Slash Command Polish & Distribution (Part 3)

Preview 15min

16 Practice Question: Author a Slash Command for Your Brand

2min

17 Practice Solution: Slash Command Walkthrough

12min

18 Claude Code Plugins: Install, Build & Share

14min

19 Hooks: Automating Pre and Post Tool-Use Events

10min

20 CLAUDE.md Project Memory: What Belongs There

8min

21 MCP Servers in Claude Code (Local & Remote)

9min

22 Subagents: Parallel Specialists for Complex Tasks

8min

23 Foundations Recap & Personal Cheat Sheet

5min

1 Writing a CLAUDE.md That Actually Works

11min

2 Context Window Tactics: Compaction, /clear & /compact

10min

3 Calorie Tracker — Phase 1: Project Init & Gemini API Key

9min

4 Calorie Tracker — Phase 1: First-Run App Build

18min

5 Calorie Tracker — Phase 2: Gemini AI Integration

6min

6 Calorie Tracker — Phase 2: API Routes Plan

6min

7 Calorie Tracker — Phase 2: API Routes Implementation

8min

8 Calorie Tracker — Phase 3: Ralph Loop Plan for Quality

5min

9 Calorie Tracker — Phase 3: Ralph Loop Implementation

11min

1 The 2026 State of AI Agents: Where We Actually Are

8min

2 Agent Anatomy 101: Loop, Tools, Memory & Goals

4min

3 End-to-End Walkthrough: An Agent Doing Real Work

10min

4 MCP 101 for Agent Builders: The Programmatic View

5min

5 Agentic Frameworks Compared: SDKs, LangGraph, CrewAI, Direct

3min

6 OpenAI Agents SDK 101: Core Primitives

5min

7 Run Your First Agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK

5min

8 Personal Finance Agent — Architecture Overview

4min

9 Personal Finance Agent (No Memory) — Code Walkthrough

11min

10 Personal Finance Agent (With Memory) — Code Walkthrough

3min

11 Auto-Build Agents with Claude Code + Agents SDK — Part 1

11min

12 Auto-Build Agents with Claude Code + Agents SDK — Part 2

9min

13 Auto-Build Agents with Claude Code + Agents SDK — Part 3

10min

14 Auto-Build Agents with Claude Code + Agents SDK — Part 4

8min

15 Designing a Team of AI Agents: Roles & Handoffs

8min

16 Agent Team with OpenAI SDK — Part 1: Roles & Skeleton

10min

17 Agent Team with OpenAI SDK — Part 2: Tools & Knowledge

7min

18 Agent Team with OpenAI SDK — Part 3: Handoffs & Routing

7min

19 Agent Team with OpenAI SDK — Part 4: Orchestration & Memory

8min

20 Agent Team with OpenAI SDK — Part 5: Ship, Monitor & Iterate

7min

Your Instructor

Engr. Mejba Ahmed

AI Developer · Software Engineer · Entrepreneur

I build production AI systems and full-stack applications for a living, and I teach the exact workflows I use in real projects — not theory. Over 8+ years I've shipped 1,500+ projects, founded Ramlit Limited, and now build agentic AI tooling with Claude, GPT and open models. AI School is where I share that hands-on playbook so you can build and ship real work.

8+ years in production 1,500+ projects shipped Founder, Ramlit Limited