Someone created a skill that makes Cowork a legit replacement to agents like OpenClaw for most people (with 90% fewer headaches).

It makes Cowork feel like a (junior) employee by activating all of its newer features and customizing them to your needs.

He’s Corey Ganim. I interviewed him. This is how it all works.

Over the past 90 days, Anthropic has quietly dripped out feature after feature on Cowork. Because each feature came out one at a time, I didn't realize how amazing Cowork has gotten.

I regularly have Cowork control multiple tabs to do research, handle Amazon returns, and buy things for me. (I'm thinking of getting a new monitor just to keep an eye on what Cowork is doing.)

These files allow Cowork to have a clear job description and understand my company.

I was going to meet someone and wanted to see what he had written on X. I used my phone to have my desktop browser scrape X and create a markdown file for me.

Admittedly, though, it’s not great, as you can see in the demo I shot:

I can now tell Cowork to "Create a report on Krishna's work based on the report you created for me last week." And it will.

My favorite connections are Notion, Google Calendar & Gmail. I regularly tell it to make me files in Notion, to find time and book a meeting on my calendar, and to synthesize emails.

Cowork supports ~50 apps, but I use Zapier, so I get about ~10,000 connections. Zapier’s founder and I made a video about how that works:

With OpenClaw, my cron jobs fail for no reason. I can't count on it. But with Cowork's scheduled tasks I'm up to about 80% success rate, as long as I don't shut the lid on my laptop. (It still randomly fails.)

Cowork can even break down big tasks into smaller ones and hand them to subagents to speed things up.

I interviewed Corey Ganim who created a skill that makes all of Cowork's features useful.

The skill automates the creation of the 7 things Cowork neeeds to do good work for you.

This is your bio, your business, and your goals — everything Cowork needs to understand who you are without guessing.

When Corey watched me use Cowork, he noticed that it often thought I was still working on Bootstrapped Giants, a previous project, because I had so many docs about it in Notion.

Creating the about-me file pointed Cowork at what I'm doing now.

This file defines your communication style so Cowork writes like you instead of writing like a robot.

I admire how Corey's been getting millions of views on X with articles that Opus largely writes for him. I always get garbage when I ask Claude to help me write. He showed me how he created a brand voice that sounds like him.

This tells Cowork how you like to work — concise or detailed, ask first or just go, where to save things.

I like to have artifacts stored as Notion pages, when I get information, I insist on reference links, I want "to the point" conversations like I had when I grew up in New York. All of that went into my working style

The master system prompt that Cowork follows every single time.

I generated this with Corey using all the other files that we had put together.

These connect Cowork to apps like Notion, Gmail, and Google Calendar so it can actually do things for you.

It went through my Notion docs and discovered my brand guidelines. I always thought of tools as a way of being able to tell Claude to go do something ("create a cal event for me and my wife to..."). After going through this exercise, I realized it's also a way of getting Claude to know me.

Transcripts, posts, and docs you feed Cowork so it knows what you actually sound like, how you think and what you're working on.

The cool thing is that I can tell Claude Code to use the browser plugin and scrape everything that I've posted on the internet and turn that into files. I had it scrape my X posts, Mixergy interviews, etc.

This sets up recurring tasks so Cowork does things for you automatically — without you asking every time.

My favorite scheduled task goes through Slack and turns all my messages into a gorgeous-looking report that I can open up on my phone on my way to the gym. It's the best way for me to prep for the day.

You can set up all 7 things yourself, but Corey's Cowork skill will walk you through setting them up. In our interview, I set it up within a few minutes.

Andrew Warner

PS No photos in the PS with personal photos this week because I'm not sure if anyone reads it. If you think I should add back the personal photos, hit reply and tell me.