Descriptions:
Craig Hewitt, founder of podcast hosting platform Castos, walks through the 12 Claude CoWork skills he uses daily to run his business — and shares the live outputs each one produces. The video operates inside the Claude desktop app’s CoWork tab, which Hewitt distinguishes from both the standard chat interface and Claude Code, noting that skills built for one environment do not carry over to the other.
Highlighted skills include a Morning Briefing that pulls from connected Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive sources and is scheduled to run at 7 a.m. daily; an Inbox Triage skill triggered three times per day; a Meeting Prep skill that ingests call transcripts and surfaces action items before the next conversation; and a Brain Dump skill that converts unstructured voice notes into structured documents with TLDRs, open questions, and decisions in flight. Hewitt also covers connectors — external integrations including GitHub, Gmail, Google Drive, and a multimedia tool called Higgsfield — and explains how to install community skills from a public GitHub repository.
A recurring theme is the comparison between Claude CoWork and purpose-built autonomous agents like OpenAI’s offerings, with Hewitt arguing that CoWork’s scheduled, connector-aware architecture already delivers much of what dedicated agent products promise. All 12 skills are available in a free GitHub repo linked in the video description, making the content directly replicable for knowledge workers in marketing, operations, sales, and business management roles.
📺 Source: Craig Hewitt · Published May 20, 2026
🏷️ Format: Showcase
