Cowork Essentials

The load-bearing setup step — and the one with real security implications worth understanding before you click. · ~3 min

Drive, Gmail, Slack — the team's filesystem, mail, and hallway — wired in the order that covers the most day-one work. · ~2 min

Five steps every Cowork task moves through — and why the plan-approval gate is the one that decides whether the rest goes well. · ~3 min

The brief is a written delegation — subject, inputs, deliverable, destination — not a conversational turn. · ~3 min

Three recovery patterns — course-correct mid-run, 'continue from here', and the clean re-brief — cover almost every stall you'll hit. · ~3 min