Set up your AI coworker.

Cowork is Anthropic's desktop agent, included on every paid Claude plan (Pro, Team and Enterprise). Download the app and sign in. No terminal, no code.

Point it at a folder. It reads, edits and creates files right there, so it works on your real documents instead of copy-paste. Keep sensitive folders out of scope until you trust it.

Link the tools you actually use so it can act across them, not just your files. That is what turns it from a chatbot into a coworker that can check a calendar, read an inbox or pull a doc.

Skip the one-off questions. Hand it a full task: research these prospects into a sheet, draft replies to my inbox, turn this messy data into a clean report. You can queue several and let them run.

It plans the steps, does them one by one, checks its own work and hands you the result. You review and make the call. Start with low-risk tasks (research, drafts, formatting) before anything that sends or deletes.