The Complete Claude Code & Claude Cowork Masterclass [2026]

Discover cloud cowork, an AI agent workspace that operates within folders, assigns tasks, and automates workflows with skills, plugins, and connectors for finance, marketing, and research.

Discover Claude Cowork capabilities, from direct local file access and multi-agent coordination to professional document generation, data analysis, research, and automated recurring tasks inside a folder.

Learn how the model context protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI agents talk to tools through connectors. See how MCP enables plug-and-play connections to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and more.

Connect Cloud Cowork to Gmail, generate and summarize receipts in an Excel sheet, and automate emailing the results with currency conversions.

Learn how tokens and tokenization shape large language models and how the context window limits input and output. Explore token ids, cost considerations, and real-world examples from the caption.

Practice tokenizing prompts with the OpenAI tokenizer tool, comparing direct and polite phrasings of the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning in AI, and reflecting on Sam Altman’s article.

Explore how the OpenAI tokenizer splits prompts into tokens, reveals token IDs, and shows how context and polite language like please and thank you affect costs.

Explore how Cloud Cowork uses skills to extend capabilities, loading skill.md metadata for task guidance and executing custom, built-in, and partner skills for tasks like PowerPoint creation and LinkedIn posts.

Learn to use Cloud Cowork to download a LinkedIn post writer skill and draft a LinkedIn post from the state of AI report with hooks.

Learn how cloud plugins bundle skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents into automated workflows, with master and sub-agents coordinating tasks across finance, design, and data analysis.

Explore how Cloud Co-Work leverages a data plugin to automate end-to-end data analysis, clean missing values, and build dashboards and visualizations.

Continue using the cloud data plugin to explore data, validate and clean datasets, and automate dashboard creation with an artificial intelligence agent.

Build dashboards from raw sales data using the data plugin, creating interactive html dashboards with KPI charts, filters, and tables, and explore data visualization with seaborn, matplotlib, and plotly.

Use the Cloud Cowork data plugin to visualize the sales data file, analyze results, and perform a sanity check to prepare for the solution video.

Watch a practical demo of using a data plugin to perform descriptive stats, outlier detection, trend analysis, and significance tests, then generate a polished PowerPoint report with findings.

Learn to use the financial forecasting time series data skill in Claude Cowork to automate data analysis, train ARIMA and SARIMA models, and generate forecasts with visualizations.

Demonstrates how to create a custom finance plugin in Cloud Cowork, configure slash commands for variance analysis and financial statement generation, and integrate an Excel sheet.

Learn to generate complete financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows, plus an executive summary with variance analysis using a custom finance plugin in Cloud Co-Work.

Analyze reviews.xlsx with the data plugin, perform exploratory data analysis and a statistical summary, build a dashboard and a word cloud, and deliver a three-slide PowerPoint summary.

Explore how Claude chat enables quick research and data visualization, generating bar charts and interactive reports grounded in sources while leveraging co-work, plugins, and model options.

Explore zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting techniques to guide Claude and other LLMs, using context, input, output indicators, and in-context examples.

Discover how cloud chat and large language models support brainstorming with voice input, expanding ideas, and refining features like adaptive mode cabin for autonomous Tesla rides.

Explore data analysis with cloud chat to build interactive dashboards and visualizations from a breast cancer dataset, highlighting malignant and benign classes using Claude front end design skill.

Explore cloud ai to extract NVIDIA's 10-k financial data from a pdf, identify revenue sources and balance sheet details, and export them to Excel and PowerPoint.

Analyze financial statements using Claude chat to assess liquidity risk, then generate a one-page PowerPoint summary highlighting current ratios, cash flow gaps, and leverage.

Explore learning with Claude, using learn features to transform dry topics into engaging stories, create knowledge maps, develop reflection exercises, and generate interactive outputs with fresh suggestions each run.

Navigate cloud chat with coding with me to perform quick code tasks, debug issues, and set coding standards. Explore cloud code for end-to-end deployment and scalable design.

Leverage cloud chat with Claude Cowork to craft social media posts, executive summaries, and video scripts using built-in skills and hooks for LinkedIn and other platforms.

Explore how Claude generates images from prompts and compare its multimodal capabilities with Gemini, using a seven wonders prompt featuring pyramids and the Great Wall of China.

Master cloud inside Excel to perform exploratory data analysis, natural language queries, sorting, filtering, conditional formatting, data visualization, and predictive modeling with Python.

Learn to set up Claude inside Excel by installing the Claude add-in, signing in, and selecting Opus 4.6 to transform data, build financial models, and debug formulas.

Explore using Claude in Excel to generate general insights from an HR dataset, revealing attrition drivers such as overtime, sales roles, stock options, and travel policy, with Python code.

Learn to use Claude inside Excel to compute statistical summaries (average age, median daily rate) and filter rows by conditions to identify the employee with the longest tenure.

Master data visualization with Claude inside Excel by plotting age histograms, frequency tables, counts, scatter age versus monthly income, and travel pie charts from HR data.

Learn to use cloud inside Excel to sort data by age in ascending order, by monthly income in descending order, and perform a two-column sort, all via prompts or voice.

Learn to use Claude inside Excel to filter data with plain English queries, including single and multi-condition filters for R&D and at least 30 years at the company.

Use Claude inside Excel to apply conditional formatting and color code cells by conditions, coloring attrition yes green and no red, and aging on a white-to-black grayscale.

Leverage Claude inside Excel to detect missing values in a HR dataset, then impute using column averages and mode while tracing where each replacement occurs.

Create a dynamic 10-year Toronto condo financial model with Claude Cowork, including mortgage amortization, rent, vacancy, sensitivity analysis, and IRR calculations, and deliver an executive investment verdict.

Learn discounted cash flow modeling in Claude to value a business by forecasting free cash flow, applying a discount rate (wacc), and including terminal value.

Build a fully automated discounted cash flow model in Excel and Cloud using input assumptions, future free cash flows, a 10% WACC, and a 3% terminal growth rate.

Explain leveraged buyouts, where debt and equity fund an acquisition and cash flows service the debt, using a Blackstone–Cardinal Health example and Claude-driven modeling.

Build a leverage buyout model in Claude using a 100 million deal with 70 million debt and 30 million equity, calculating debt schedule, equity value at exit, and irr.

Leverage Claude in Excel to analyze Walmart weekly sales data, chart revenue trends by store, assess seasonality and weather effects, heat map correlations with visits, and compare inventory turnover.

Explore how Claude is used inside Excel to analyze Walmart sales data, generate prompts, create line charts, and reveal weather-driven revenue patterns.

Install and use cloud inside PowerPoint to create and refine presentations, modify titles and add images, brainstorm ideas, and convert PDFs or Word documents into slides with generative AI.

Use Claude inside PowerPoint to generate a multi-slide presentation on second life batteries for electric cars, using Opus 4.6, with agentic planning and a self-reflection loop to refine content.

Test cloud capability inside PowerPoint to add speaking notes with Microsoft Copilot and generative AI, generated per slide via OOXML and covering topics like Second Life batteries.

Learn to add slides from online resources and enrich PowerPoint with data on second live batteries powering AI data centers, including extracted notes, then tailor tone for gen alpha.

Generate a three-slide PowerPoint directly inside your company's template using Claude, auto-matching slide style and placeholders, with options to turn Word or PDF research into the presentation.

Get coached by Claude to review PowerPoint slides, identify missing titles, suggest audience questions, and prepare you to present with engaging, high-impact fixes and hooks.

Compare Claude, Copilot, and Notebook LM in generating PowerPoint presentations, using second life batteries as the test topic, and explore editable slides, outlines, templates, and visuals.

Install Claude code via the desktop app or VS code, log in and upgrade to pro, then generate a wealth path landing page with a live preview.

Install Visual Studio Code and Cloud Code, then set up a project folder. Run the one-line install, launch Cloud Code, and generate wealthpath.html with a dashboard.

Learn to use Cloud Code, an agentic AI tool that reads your codebase and edits files. The course covers VS Code setup, plan and normal modes, and Opus 4.6.

Build a no-skill landing page for sugar and bloom bakery with cloud code in vscode, featuring a hero intro, a cake quiz, a six-cake menu, reviews, and a contact form.

Explore how Claude skills work, including the front-end design skill, loaded from skill.md and applied automatically to UI tasks, delivering distinctive fonts, color palettes, and production-grade design.

Install and explore the front-end design skill for Claude by creating a dedicated project folder, installing the skill via terminal, and verifying it within Claude.

Build a bakery landing page for sugar and bloom using the front end design skill and cloud code, with a hero, quiz, six cakes menu, testimonials, and a contact form.

The lecture explains why a skill.md is stored in both Claude and agents folders, so Claude and other AI agents can access the same skill via their respective folders.

Develop a pet grooming landing page with AI prompts for mindful paws, featuring a hero, interactive quiz, price estimate, services, gallery, and a booking form.

Build a pet grooming landing page using ai, starting from a no-skills draft. Explore cloud code, front-end design skills, and prompt-driven html generation.

Explore built-in slash commands in cloud code to work faster, switch models, review changes, track usage, and manage context with a one million context window.

Create a my brand slash command in cloud code to generate branded assets, flyers, and posts, driven by a brand.md file with a warm tone, colors, and typography.

Create a reusable my brand slash command in Claude Code to apply your brand identity, colors, fonts, tone, and vocabulary to emails, social posts, and landing pages.

Activate my brand slash command in Claude Code to generate branded emails, flyers, and Instagram captions using your brand voice and the deep navy and tea gold palettes.

Create a Verde kitchen brand slash command for a plant-based meal prep service, using forest green, cream, terra cotta; test by generating an email and flyer with same voice.

Practice creating a brand slash command with Claude Code, generate a hero image with Gemini, and build a Verdi Kitchen brand identity while designing a front-end flyer.

Explore cloud plugins that bundle skills, connectors, and workflows via MCP, enabling sub-agents and hooks to automate tasks with examples like Ralph Wiggum loops and context seven.

Leverage cloud code with Playwright to audit competitor sites and capture screenshots, then use the marketing plugin to craft brand positioning, a four-week content calendar, and actionable improvements.

Leverage the Claude plugin with Playwright to browse competitor sites, capture screenshots, and deliver a competitive analysis with actionable recommendations for the Austin market.

Craft an actionable marketing plan for Pulse and Flow in Austin, blending hiit with yoga recovery, by integrating Playwright insights with the marketing plugin for positioning, content strategy, landing pages, and acquisition.

Conduct a competitive analysis using the Playwright and marketing plugins to position Ember and Origin. Generate differentiation strategies and a content plan focused on origin, transparency, craft, roasting, and sustainability.

Use the Playwright and marketing plugins in Cloud Code to perform competitor analysis and create an end-to-end Ember and Origin brand positioning with a content plan.

Structure the cloud.md file, master context management and context size, and build real-world apps with cloud code without coding, enabling rapid mvps and repeatable workflows.

Master context window management in Claude Code by understanding tokens, system prompts, tools, and Claude.md, and using slash commands like /compact and /context to maintain context.

Build a no-code calorie tracker with cloud code in three phases: a basic app, AI-driven image-to-calorie estimation using Gemini, and iterative Ralph Loops and plan mode for design before coding.

Build a phase 1 calorie tracker app with next.js, typescript, and a local sqlite database, featuring a 20-item food log and daily calorie totals.

Elevate the calorie tracker to an ai-powered nutrition tracker in phase two by integrating Gemini API with three input methods: type, snap, and quick add.

Enhance the calorie tracker by integrating Gemini API calls, build two back-end post routes for text and image nutrition lookups, and update cloud docs accordingly.

Wire the backend to the frontend, enabling three food-adding methods via Gemini routes—text queries, image uploads, and quick add from the list—for a fully functional calorie tracker.

Phase 3 of the calorie tracker project shows how Ralph Loop enables structured, three-iteration improvements to deliver a professional, responsive UI with macro charts and meal categories.

Implement Ralph loops and the front-end design skill in Claude code to iteratively improve a calorie tracker app, delivering a polished UI with a daily calorie goal and macro breakdown.

Discover how AI agents plan, execute tasks, and use memory, tools, and guardrails to deliver end-to-end results. Learn to build agent teams and handoffs with cloud code.

Discover how an ai agent uses an llm, tools, memory, and a planning loop to autonomously reason and act. See a weather walkthrough with system prompts and memory in action.

Assess open source and vendor agentic frameworks, including LandGraph, Crue AI, AutoGen, Cloud Agents SDK, and OpenAI Agents SDK, and focus on building AI agents workflows with cloud code.

Explore the OpenAI agents sdk, a python-first open-source framework for building agentic ai apps with few primitives, enabling agents, tools, handoffs, guardrails, and tracing across 100+ llms.

Build a personal finance agent with memory using the OpenAI agents software development kit and SQLite session storage. It remembers expenses and budgets to provide personalized spending advice.

Build a memory-free personal finance AI agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK in Google Colab, tracking expenses, categorizing spending, and giving concise summaries, then add memory with cloud code.

Build a personal finance ai agent with memory by enabling a sqlite session to recall conversations, track expenses, and manage a budget of 250 using OpenAI agents SDK.

Automate AI agent building with Cloud Code and the OpenAI Agents SDK, defining an environment file with the API key, installing skills, and creating memory-enabled agents via asynchronous workflows.

Build a no-memory ai agent with cloud code to create a finance advisor that tracks spending by category and offers budget advice using the OpenAI Agents SDK and GPT-5 mini.

Add memory to a finance advisor agent by enabling a sqlite session in a Jupyter Notebook, then compare memory versus no-memory prompts and test with grocery spending.

Learn to build a modular team of AI agents, including a researcher, analyst, and writer, coordinated by a manager to perform end-to-end workflows using Tavli search and structured outputs.

Build and orchestrate a multi-agent workflow using the OpenAI Agents SDK, connecting a researcher, analyst, and writer with Tavli search for end-to-end AI collaboration.

Build and run a multi-agent workflow with the OpenAI Agents SDK, creating researcher, analyst, and writer agents, managed to generate analysis, a markdown report, and follow-up questions.

Learn to build a team of AI agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK and Cloud Code. Orchestrate a researcher, Taveli search tool, analyst, and writer under a manager.

Set up OpenAI agents sdk and Tavli api keys, then create a multi-agent notebook with a Tavli-enabled researcher and an analyst using Pydantic models to extract insights.

Explore building a personal AI agent architecture with Cloud Code, soul.md and cloud.md, a growing vault, and connected tools like Gmail, Notion, Google Calendar, and MCP.

Define your ai agent’s soul with the soul.md file by outlining identity, role, and tone, and include writing samples, top priorities, and voice rules for authentic, non robotic output.

Set up your brand folder by configuring colors, logos, fonts, and tone in the brand-config.md to generate on-brand templates for slides, excel, and pdf.

Explore pre-defined slash commands in Claude Code & Cowork, including setup onboarding, skill installation, vault and Notion initialization, and creating automations with Cloud.MD playbooks.