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Claude Cowork: From Personal AI to Autonomous Agent Teams

Claude Cowork: From Personal AI to Autonomous Agent Teams

Class Details

May, 2026 - Last Updated: May, 2026 · 5 Days
Claude Claude Cowork Agentic AI MCP Microsoft 365 AI Architects Business Owner Beginner

Claude Cowork changes how knowledge workers and teams operate. Instead of opening another chat window, you stand up an agentic workspace that does the work (research, drafting, file operations, cross-application tasks) while your team simply reviews and steers. This is the shift from AI that answers to AI that delivers. A configured Cowork workspace behaves like a tireless digital teammate that already knows your context, your templates, and your rules.

Across eleven modules we take you from first interface orientation to running autonomous agent teams you monitor from your phone. You will build reusable skills, live MCP connectors into your real systems, on-brand design and decks, browser and desktop automation, Microsoft 365 integration, and a governed second brain that compounds in value. Every concept lands on a concrete business use case, so the payoff is obvious before anyone leaves the room.

The skills and harness patterns you build are production-ready and portable. The investment starts paying back the same week, and you walk out with a working workspace, a library of custom skills, at least one live connector, and a clear plan to scale across the organisation.

Curriculum

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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Class Logistics

Delivery Price 6.250 €
Max Users 12
Infrastructure (per user) 125 €
Lab Requirements Claude Max 5+ or Team
AI Coder Claude Cowork

All prices are net B2B prices and subject to 20% VAT or Reverse Charge in the EU.