Cowork Projects, Plugins & Skills

A folder, standing instructions, connectors, and an isolated memory store — all bound into a single scoped workspace that doesn't leak into the next one. · ~3 min

Global, project, and organization instructions stack in a strict precedence order — and knowing it saves an afternoon of debugging. · ~2 min

A packaged recipe for a task you'll do again — and the fastest way to author one is to do it once with Cowork, then say 'package what we just did into a skill.' · ~3 min

Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal — the four Anthropic-shipped plugins that turn a generic Cowork install into a role-tuned one. · ~2 min

Install, customize, or build — the decision tree for going from no plugin to a working one for any role Anthropic didn't ship. · ~3 min