Transcript: My Full Claude Cowork Setup (steal my workflows!)

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• 0:00 — This is my Claude Corore setup. Every morning I receive a daily digest on my Apple notes with all of my investments, calendar events, emails, and action items for the day. And if I want to dive deeper into my investments, I can go to my custom investments dashboard. I also have Co-work autonomously building me new software and workflows every night. So, I can also check out my mission control dashboard and see what projects it’s built for me. For example, last night it built for me this resource hub. So, in this video, I’m going to show you how to set up a system like this, but custom for you. I will also be giving you my co-work prompts along the way, so
• 0:30 — you can just copy paste and steal them directly. You’re welcome. And no, you don’t even need to know how to code. Anyways, without further ado, let’s go. A portion of this video is sponsored by Hostinger. Step number one is configuring your settings. Of course, if you haven’t already, please do download Claude Co-work. And after that, you’ll be greeted with the Claude Hub. Now you want to go to claude settings and then click co-work and paste in your operating instructions. I’m going to put
• 1:00 — a prompt on screen and also in description that you can paste into the chatbot tab of claude co-work in order to get this meta prompt. However, I do want to draw your attention to some parts of this instruction because it’s a little bit non-standard but trust me you would get so much more out of co-work with this. Okay, so this stuff is pretty standard blah blah blah you’re Claude working as Tina’s primary AI hub and co-work then there are four sections. So building things, push back and clarification, note-taking and reversibility. Since I use co-work to build a lot of stuff, we’re going to be using co-work to build a lot of stuff. So the most important thing here is PRD
• 1:31 — first always. I’m basically asking Co-work that before it builds anything, it has to write up a PRD, a product requirement document that lists out in detail what it is that it’s going to be building. Like this for example, it includes articulating what the problem is, what’s the success criteria, what is the scope of what we’re building, constraints, build plans, etc. This is really important to guarantee that co-work is actually building what you want it to be building. So you won’t be surprised like I don’t know like 30 minutes an hour later it builds something and it’s like not even what you want. So yes, I will always ask it to have a PRD. Also to ask me any open
• 2:01 — questions to make sure that co-work understands what it’s building. And finally to ask for explicit sign off before [music] building. I also have a section on push back and clarification because I want Claude to push back on me, question what it is that I’m doing and to disagree when the plan seems off strategy, technically wrong or inconsistent with prior decisions. also to flag trade-offs that I may not have considered because I am not infallible. Then there is note-taking. I tell co-work that it’s to take notes aggressively. Memory management is really really important when it comes to co-work and I’ll be talking more about it later in the video, but I do make it as a part of its personality from the
• 2:32 — very beginning to always document everything. Then finally, there’s reversability. This I’m just asking you to always confirm before doing anything that is hard to reverse. If in doubt, stop and ask. Interrupting with a question is always cheaper than silently destroying something. Great. Now that is complete. Let’s move on to step two, writing the initial PRD. Okay, awaken if you are falling asleep [screaming] because this is the most crucial part of this entire build. Okay, focus. The analogy I’m going to make
• 3:02 — here is kind of like coming up with a blueprint of a building that you’re going to build cuz you can technically like yolo make a blueprint that’s like not very good and then your probably your building is also going to be not very good and like fall down or something, right? Very bad. So, this PRD is kind of like the blueprint of how you’re going to set up your corework system and all the projects that you’re going to be building now and henceforth. I hope I use that word right. Henceforth. Uh, from this time on or from that time on. Yes. And henceforth. What this PRD looks like. Okay. So, mission control build PRD. It contains
• 3:32 — everything that you need in order to set up your initial core workspace and initial projects. As you can see, it is very long and very detailed. Woo. So luckily for you, I’m going to link a prompt below that you can copy paste into your claw chat. It will ask you some questions and then generate your version of this PRD custom to you. Man, I am so jealous of you that I’m giving you this. Okay, here I do want to go over some crucial parts of this PRD as well cuz it’s going to be important for the build later. So the first step is to figure out what projects you want to be
• 4:02 — building. In my case, to start off with, I wanted to have a dashboard, specifically an investment dashboard where I can track my investments, update them, and to be able to get news and custom advice based upon my investing philosophy. I also wanted to build a daily digest, a morning brief that will give me relevant updates across my Google calendar, my emails, my Slack chats, and relevant news. I also wanted to have some custom skills, which are set instructions that tell Claude how to run a specific task. By the way, if this is the first time you heard about co-work skills, I highly recommend that you check out this video over here,
• 4:32 — which is like the fundamentals, the prequel to this video, where I introduce you to co-work, explain how it works, and all its functionalities, including things like skills in a lot of detail. So, I’m not going to reexlain all of this in this video. If you are a long-term viewer of this channel, you will know that I always insist that you learn the fundamentals of things because it’s going to make you so much better at using tools and building things. Anyways, done with that. Check out that video if you haven’t already. And going back to the skills I want to start building specifically, I wanted to start off by building three different skills. The today skill where I’m able to pull up the morning brief again and update
• 5:02 — it. The research skill that will deep dive into a specific stock I’m interested in. And the prep skill for the meetings that I have cuz often times I don’t really know the contacts for the meetings I’m going into. A lot of people have access to my calendar so they just drop stuff into my calendars and sometimes I don’t even know who I’m going to be meeting with. So it helps a lot. And finally, the autonomous builder. This allows me to drop a brief a PRD of something that I want to build and for cloud to autonomously build it usually through the night. So I can wake up to a finished work project and be very delighted like this resource hub
• 5:32 — that I woke up to today. Very delightful. These are just projects that I wanted to start up building. Of course, I’ve built a lot more things as well and for you it’s probably going to be different. So if you go through the prompt to generate your own PR, it will help you to figure out the starter projects that are best for you. Okay. So after you figure out what kind of projects that you want, another section that is very important is the architecture overview. You see, co-work is a local AI agent, which means that it has to operate on your local computer, your local machine. And in my case, it operates under a folder called co-work that has a bunch of things in it. There are actually a lot of different ways
• 6:02 — that you can set up your folder system. Not going to go into more too much more detail here. You can check out the fundamentals video, but just know that in my case, I have a three layer system, a corresponding memory architecture, and the PRD actually maps out what the folder structure should look like here. This is a little bit abstract, so don’t worry so much about it. We’ll be building this out later in the video, but just wanted to call your attention to this part of the PRD. Final part I want to draw your attention to in the PRD is the build plan. So, I told co-work that I had 5 hours um to build out all these things in the prompt. Of
• 6:32 — course, when you go through the prompt that I gave you, you can adjust the hours to however many hours that you want. But yes, for mine, I had 5 hours and it laid out a plan hour by hour for me. The way it works is that hour one is setting up the data layer foundation. You can think about this like if you wanted to build a lake, a man-made lake. You have a big hole, but you got to fill it with water. So, you need to set up different pipelines for water to trickle into the lake and for it to be constantly moving. Now, in this analogy, the water here is data. You need to have
• 7:03 — different pipelines in which you’re getting fresh data that’s going to be going into your lake and moving along. So, the folder structure and different tasks, which we’ll talk about later, is how you’re going to set up this lake. Then in hours 2, three, and four, you’re building things on top of this data lake. You could be building like a dam, a water wheel. What other things do we build on lakes? A walkway, a fishing section. Yes, those will be like your projects like the investment mission control, the morning brief, and your autonomous builder. Because all of these things that you’re building is basically
• 7:33 — just taking the data and then transforming them, doing stuff to it. We’re presenting it in a different way. Like any type of dashboard like an investment dashboard is taking your investment and financial data and then portfring it right. A morning brief is taking data from like your your calendars, your chats, emails, investments and compiling them together and presenting it to you. A general builder is transforming a brief a PRD into actual software etc etc. I hope that makes sense. If you think about your projects and your workflows in this way, I think it becomes a lot more clear about how it is that you should be building them out. Great. And let’s
• 8:03 — actually get things started by moving on to step three, setting up folders and project. The new launch of Clogco remote is pretty amazing. But the second your laptop sleeps, your agent dies with it. The hours and hours of progress and a refraction or migration are just gone. By the way, this is the same problem with all local AI agents like OpenClaw, Hermes, and Co-work. Luckily, Hostinger solves this. Your agent runs on your own private VPS 24/7. Your API keys, your code, credentials, all on your own infra, never on a third party platform. And because it never sleeps, I can kick
• 8:33 — up a task on a phone, close the app, go to bed, and wake up to it done. You can head on over to hostinger.com/tina10 and grab the KVM 2 plan. It’s built for exactly this kind of persistent heavy workload. I went with the 24-month plan for the savings, and my code tina gets you an extra 10% off. The setup is genuinely fast. The cloud code template is pre-selected. You click deploy, authenticate with your anthropic API key, and voila, you are live. I had this running in minutes. So, if you want your own always on Cloud Code agent with zero
• 9:03 — setup friction and data privacy, use my link hostinger.com/tina10 and apply code tina for an exclusive discount on the Claude Code VPS plan. Link is in the description. Thank you so much Hostinger for sponsoring this portion of the video. Now, back to the video. All right, so I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first? Was that bad news first? Okay, so basically before you give this entire PRD to Cork and just tell it to do it, you do need to set up the initial folder and scaffolding. The good news is that
• 9:34 — this literally takes 1 minute. So let me show you. Okay, so you go to your finder and you create a folder. I already have one called co-work, so we’ll just call this one mission control. Then you go to cowork, click projects, new project, use an existing folder, and then find your folder and click open. Then in the instructions, I just put some additional detail referencing the PRD mission control.md that I wanted to follow. I’ll put the instructions in the description as well and click create. Then I go back to my mission control folder. Click into it and drop in the PR mission control.md
• 10:06 — file. Then you can just type please start building with the mission control prd. And that’s it. Great. You’ve set things up. Now you can see that it tells you what the next steps are like going to personal plugins, installing plugins, connectors, and skills. Again, if you don’t know what these are, please check out my core fundamentals video. And yeah, you basically just follow along. Now, we’re on to step four, pure execution. So you basically just follow co-work and go through the detailed PRD
• 10:37 — plan. Starting off with the folder structure, making sure to do SL start from the productivity plugin to kick off the memory system. Finishing up hour one, building your lake, making sure all the water, the data is flowing in. Then in hour two, you’re building the investment mission control dashboard scoped out here in the PRD and it looks like this. There are of course a lot of other dashboards that you can build too. Like here’s my mission control dashboard where I can look at different builds and schedules, things like that. Dashboards is one of my favorite things to build whenever I do a project because it allows me to visualize things and monitor what’s going on. I’m also going
• 11:08 — to put on screen some other examples of dashboards that I have built and things that you could consider building too. So, I do want to make a caveat here. It’s not going to be like completely smooth sailing. Having a PR and following through it is going to get you like 95% of the way, but you do need to be doing things like giving permissions and potentially making some tweaks and additions to the PR as you’re building along as well. But honestly, it’s pretty smooth. Then hour three is going to be the morning brief and the skills suite. Here’s the scope of it in the PRD. This is what it looks like. It gives me an overview of my portfolio, what happened during that. Tells me about my day, my
• 11:40 — inbox, my calendar, things I need to follow up on, and tells me what I’m going to be doing for the day. This daily digest is custom to me. So, I’m going to put on screen now some other things that you can put onto your daily digest if you wish. The Today Skill is able to fetch the on demand version of the morning brief if I want to look at it or update it. the research ticker skill that allows me to do slash research whatever stock it is I want to deep dive into and then gives me information about it which I can also see updated on my investments dashboard and the prep skill where I can input any meeting like next week’s team meeting
• 12:12 — and it will tell me all the context about the meeting the people in the meeting there are other skills I have built and things that I plan to build as well so I’m going to put all of those on screen as inspo amazing so by hour three I had built out all of these and the final thing is the general builder So, I consider this to be like an advanced bonus section. So, please feel free to skip it, but I included it even my initial build because I just really like autonomously building things. I pay for a Cloud Max subscriptions. I got to like get all the use out of my tokens too, you know? That’s how I justify it. So, that would be step five, the autonomous
• 12:44 — build. [music] So, the way that you build this is actually still the same. Here’s the scope of it, including the mission control PRD. You just follow through instructions and it should build it up for you. But I do actually want to demo this for you because it’s a little bit more complex than the other things. What this is is that I will have certain task workflows and softwares that I want to build across my company, my personal life, my investments, etc. I ask code to give some suggestions of different things that we can be building in order to improve this system and the business and my life. It will draft the PRDS. I
• 13:14 — will go through an approval with it. Make sure these are the things I want to build and then it will put it into the pending folder. Then I have a schedule task where every 30 minutes it will check the pending folder and then it will pick it up and if it sees that there’s a PR then it would go and build it. By the way, not to be super complicated here, I actually do also give some tasks, some TRDs to Claude code uh depending on how advanced the project is, but I’m not going to go into more detail about that. Anyways, while it’s building it, it would put it in the in progress folder and then when it’s done, it would put it into the done
• 13:45 — folder. Of course, if it failed, it put into the failed folder. Um, and it also keeps logs on what it is that it’s built. I do also have this mission control dashboard where I can see the builds more clearly. Just made a dashboard for it so I can more clearly visualize things. And yeah, I’ve built a bunch of different things in this way. I will put on screen some of the things that I’ve built, some of the things that I want to build as well. Um, and other suggestions that you can take as inspo if you want to implement this more advanced autonomous builder section. Really cool, right? I love it. I really love waking up to something new that it builds. Sometimes I use it, sometimes I
• 14:16 — don’t, but a lot of it I actually have used and build on top of them as well. So yes, let me know in the comments if you’re going to implement this section. Kind of curious to see if other people are into this too. That was hour four. And hour five was just to polish things up like having notifications set up and the endto-end testing. So not going to show you that part. Pretty mundane, but yes, it was actually pretty accurate. It really did take me around 5 hours to get this done. Of course, afterwards I’ve built a lot more things on top of it, like for tracking my health. A lot of skills related to planning my day, daily plans, weekly plans and improvements with memory as well because I just build
• 14:46 — a lot of stuff. I am definitely a co-work power user. So, as time goes on, co-work does start forgetting things. It’s not as bad as open claw if you’ve used openclaw before, but your memory system does start bloating. So, I’ve implemented a more complex memory system as well, which I’m not going to go into too much more detail about this now cuz it is a little bit more technical, but maybe I can do a part three on cowork. Let me know in the comments if you would like me to do that. Your wish is my command mostly sometimes. I’m going to sneak in a little quiz now, which I’m going to put on screen. Please do answer these questions to help you retain all
• 15:16 — the information that we covered today cuz we covered a lot today. And I will see you guys in the next video or live stream.