Claude Cowork Guide prompt
A guide to Claude Cowork for no-code business tasks: 29 workflows, 70 ready prompts and CLAUDE.md templates
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Why this level
- The workflows assume Cowork can reach your working folders, so grant only the ones you need
- Document and contract templates need checking against your country's laws
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In your terminal, with SkillFoxx CLI
npx skillfoxx add prompts/claude-cowork-guideDetects the agents on your machine, shows the access level and pins the version.
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How we reviewMinimal accessThe tool runs nothing and makes no network calls.
- The workflows assume Cowork can reach your working folders, so grant only the ones you need
- Document and contract templates need checking against your country's laws
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What it does
Claude Cowork Guide is an open guide to Cowork, Claude's workspace for non-programmers and small businesses. The author gathered five reference chapters (overview, getting started, capabilities, security, troubleshooting), 29 step-by-step workflows and a library of 70 prompts to copy into a chat. The workflows are grouped by area: invoicing and payment reminders, quotes, prospect research, supplier price comparison, Excel financial model validation and workforce planning. The examples folder holds eight CLAUDE.md templates by profession: real estate agent, building contractor, shop owner, concierge service, consultant, small-business manager, online seller and restaurateur. There is also a printable cheatsheet, a comparison with Copilot, Gemini and ChatGPT, an FAQ and an interactive prompt that builds a learning path. The material is in English and French.
Who it is for. Small-business owners, freelancers and office staff who want to automate invoices, correspondence and reports in Claude without coding.
Good fit when
- You need to issue an invoice from a ready quote and send reminders to those who have not paid
- You want to sort a folder of incoming files by type and tidy a working directory
- Before meeting a prospect you need company data and decision makers
- You need a ready CLAUDE.md template for your profession instead of writing rules from scratch
Not a fit when
- You need instructions for Claude Code in a terminal: the author has a separate guide for developers
- You need an installable program: the repository holds only text and templates
- You need workflows in Russian: the material is English and French only
Example request
Take the invoicing workflow from the guide and build an Excel invoice from my quote with a number and a due dateLimitations
The guide covers Cowork, a paid Claude feature: it needs a Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise subscription and is absent on the free plan. Features and where tasks run keep changing: according to the guide, since September 16, 2026 Cowork is built into the ordinary Claude conversation, and since October 6 new Pro and Max tasks run in the Anthropic cloud. The workflows target small business, and legal or tax templates for your country you have to check yourself. The CC BY-SA 4.0 license requires attribution when you reuse the material.
How to disable. There is nothing to remove: these are text materials. If you placed a CLAUDE.md template in a Cowork working folder, delete that file and Claude stops reading those rules.
FAQ
What is Cowork?
Claude's workspace for tasks with files and tools without writing code. According to the guide, since September 16, 2026 it is built into every Claude conversation.
Which subscription do I need?
Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise; the free plan is not enough. Availability depends on the plan and where you open Claude.
How many ready prompts are there?
Seventy, grouped by task: file operations, data extraction, document creation and research. Each prompt copies into a chat in full.
Which Cowork plugins are covered?
Eleven official ones: Asana, Canva, Cloudflare, Figma, GitHub, Google Drive, Jira, Linear, Notion, Sentry and Slack.
Can I use the material in my own course?
Yes, CC BY-SA 4.0 allows it if you credit the author and share derived work under the same terms.
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README in short
The guide opens with a quick start: enable Cowork, grant folder access and give a first task. Learning paths for a beginner, a decision maker and a power user follow, then the content list, golden rules for safe work and links to the Claude Code guide for developers.