Master Class: Personal AI and Autonomous Agent Teams with Claude Cowork (AATCC)

Module 1 — Day-One Foundations: Desktop & Chat

Meet the Claude Family

Safe by Default: Workspace & Permissions

Write Prompts That Deliver First Try

Choose the Right Model, Control Cost

Stay Consistent on Large-Scale Tasks

Master the Chat Interface

Reuse Your Best Work with Artifacts

Onboard Your Team in One Session\nModule 2 — Skills, Connectors & MCP

Add domain expertise with ready-made skills

Produce Office documents out of the box

Write your first skill that runs every time

Turn a rough skill into reliable automation

Connect Claude to the services you run on

From AI assistant to AI employee with MCP

Wire Claude into any internal system with MCP

Run skills as slash commands in Claude Code\nModule 3 — Claude Projects: Context That Compounds

Persistent Context: Never Re-Explain Again

Stand Up Your First Project in Five Minutes

Cumulative Memory: Claude Gets Smarter

Standing Rules: Write Once, Apply Always

Knowledge Files: Always the Right Source

Integrations: GitHub, Skills, Connectors, Plugins

Research Workspace: Your Files Plus the Web

Brand Consistency: Set Once, Always Enforced

Autonomous Tasks: Inherit Every Bit of Context\nModule 4 — Claude Cowork: Hand Off the Work

Get oriented: the Cowork screen and controls

Extend Cowork fast with marketplace plugins

Launch, monitor, and manage tasks at scale

Know when to ask and when to hand off

Tune persona, tone, and default behavior

Run tasks on autopilot with scheduling

Diagnose a failed task and recover fast\nModule 5 — On-Brand by Default: Design & Voice

Generate on-brand assets and design systems

Codify your brand voice into a reusable skill

From Idea to Investor-Ready Pitch

Share-Ready Slides and One-Pagers\nModule 6 — Automate the Apps You Already Use

Know when automation is the right call

Automate web forms with the Chrome extension

Automate legacy desktop apps on screen

Write prompts that make automation reliable

Manage automation permissions with confidence

Recover fast when an automation breaks\nModule 7 — Claude Inside Microsoft 365

Use Claude right inside Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Connect Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint in one step

Know when to stay in the add-in or escalate

How Claude powers M365 and Copilot routing

Control which agents your users can access

Map your plans to the features you actually get

Track the roadmap to protect your investment\nModule 8 — Harness & Plugins: Make It Yours

Set up a safe, governed workspace

Automate workflows and version them in Git

See what plugins unlock for you

Install and manage plugins from one panel

Under the hood: what a plugin is made of

Govern plugins across your whole team

Keep plugin secrets and credentials safe\nModule 9 — Agent Teams You Run from Anywhere

Trigger tasks from your phone or tablet

Get updates and reply from Teams or Slack

What agent teams unlock for you

How every agent team is structured

How Cowork splits and sequences the work

Watch and steer a team in real time

Approve key decisions, recover from failures

Keep remote access locked down

Trigger tasks programmatically via the Dispatch API\nModule 10 — Second Brain: Knowledge That Compounds

Why a second brain lifts every Cowork task

Stand up the project for your second brain

Structure knowledge for first-time-right retrieval

Connect sources and know what Claude draws on

Keep your knowledge current, never stale

Automate recurring tasks on a stable base

Run Deep Research across the web and your files

Improve CLAUDE.md and your skills every week

Find it in the log, fix it in five minutes

Close the loop: track, gather feedback, measure\nModule 11 — Scale to the Org: Team & Enterprise

• Pick the right plan: Team vs. Enterprise
• Get the seat mix right: steady cost, no blocks
• Monitor usage so no one stalls mid-project
• Auto-provision accounts via your identity provider
• Set spend limits that stop surprise bills
• One prompt to search M365, Slack, and internal systems
• Plan the Enterprise move before you hit the seat cap
• Run billing, access, and usage from one console
• Know the data-privacy terms before you connect
• Export audit logs for compliance and security