Introduction to Claude Cowork — Anthropic Academy

Certified by Anthropic Academy in Introduction to Claude Cowork — Anthropic's agentic knowledge-work application, where you delegate a task and receive a completed deliverable back.

The core principle: Cowork compounds. The more it knows about you, your work, and how your team operates, the better each subsequent deliverable becomes — and the faster you get there.

Four building blocks make that happen, each giving Cowork context it carries forward:

- Global instructions — who you are and how you work, so every task starts calibrated to your role, formats, and preferences
- Projects — the context of one stream of work, so Cowork operates like someone already on the team with access to files, history, and decisions to date
- Skills — how a specific process should be done, applied automatically when a matching task comes up
- Plugins — the expertise of your role or field, turning Cowork from a generalist into a specialist

The curriculum also covers setting up Cowork, delegating your first task, working across environments with Claude in Chrome and Claude for Microsoft 365, best practices for working safely, validating skills for plugins, and sharing what you build with your team.

Key takeaway: context you supply once keeps paying off.

Completed all modules including the final assessment. Verified certificate available.