Descriptions:
Bart Slodyczka delivers a comprehensive walkthrough of Claude Co-work, Anthropic’s agentic desktop tool built into the Claude desktop app. Unlike Claude Chat (conversational) or Claude Code (terminal-based development), Co-work is designed for task delegation: you give it a goal, it generates a plan, breaks work into subtasks, executes them in a virtual machine with direct read/write access to local folders, and delivers finished files — without requiring the user to stay engaged throughout.
The tutorial demonstrates the full capability stack using a practical invoice-processing example: Co-work reads a folder of invoices, categorizes them into subfolders by type, and generates a formatted Excel spreadsheet with subtotals, taxes, and category summaries — including correct Excel formulas, which eliminates hallucinated totals. From there, Slodyczka shows how to convert any completed task into a reusable skill using the built-in skill creator, then attach that skill to a scheduled task (e.g., every Monday at 9 a.m.) for fully automated recurring execution. He notes scheduled tasks require the desktop app to remain open.
The video also covers practical setup decisions: Co-work requires a paid Claude account (Pro or Max), with the main difference between tiers being usage limits rather than features — Pro suits regular use while Max provides five times the capacity for power users. A section on persistent Markdown context files explains how to give Co-work durable knowledge about your projects across sessions, making it behave more like a trained team member than a stateless assistant.
📺 Source: Bart Slodyczka · Published March 16, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
