Anthropic dropped a free Claude Cowork course with an official certificate — here are three things that put you ahead of 95% of people

Scheduled tasks aren't for morning briefings

The default move is to schedule a daily summary of your inbox or a news digest. That's the demo, not the use case. The real play is teaching Claude the work you actually do every day — the repeatable operational stuff that eats your week. Pack that into a skill, schedule it, and the work gets done while you sleep. You wake up, the output is waiting.

Official Anthropic plugins are one-click bundles

The plugins are Anthropic's way of solving the assembly problem. Up until now if you wanted Claude to handle a full workflow you had to wire up agents, skills and MCP connectors yourself. The plugins ship all three in one package and install in a click.

Turn any repeatable task into a skill

The skill creator is the unlock. You type slash skill creator, describe what you want automated, and Claude builds the skill itself — figures out the structure, writes the instructions, sets up the triggers.