Shadowing Practice: Claude Cowork Tutorial: Build Monthly Reports in Minutes - Learn English Speaking with Video

okay so welcome to this practical guide on how to use cloud co -work

and we're going to talk about how we can use cloud on our local computer in order to produce deliverables

and it's going to be a hands -on experience

because all the examples we're going to be using is going to be under the video description

so you can download the folders and the guides in order to follow along with us.

So for us to understand this concept of Cloud Cowork, we're basically going to use a fake company example called Canvas & Co.

And so Canvas & Co is basically this small art print shop.

The thing about them is that, you know, they have these cell files are constantly piling up, their folder is extremely messy, nobody has no clue what's going on, but somebody has to still go back into

that folder in order to produce a monthly report that pretty much looks the same every month.

So we're going to see how Cloud Cowork can be useful in these type of situations.

And so by the end, you're going to learn how to take this messy folder, turn to organized project.

We're going to see how we can make these live cell dashboards or these live artifacts.

And then we're going to see how we can make these monthly reports that write in emails itself.

And so our agenda is we're going to talk about what cowork is.

We're going to set up our instructions and our projects.

We're going to work on our first build, which is cleaning our second build, which is basically our lifestyle dashboards

and then we're going to focus on our last build which is basically having that report run itself and emailed to us.

Okay so what makes co -work actually different?

So a lot of us already have experience with cloud chat where we use it to bounce ideas, to ask questions, to maybe producing some documents and co -files

but it's very constrained inside this chat box because even

if you're able to produce a document well you still need to find a way to download it

and import to your computer.

If you're working with a co -file well you still need to find a way to copy and pasted.

The reality is when you're working and producing deliverables, you need to mess with a variety of local files from different types of folders.

And so Cloud Chat has that limitation.

And so that's where Cloud Cowork comes into the picture.

Cloud Cowork can actually run your computer.

It can touch your real files in order to help you produce those different types of deliverables.

So I want to quickly mention this.

When I say that it can run your computer, I'm saying to run your local computer where it can touch your local folders and files in order to produce those deliverables.

But now what we're finding is that even Cloud Cowork, if your computer is off, you still have the ability to run it in the background.

And so I just want to mention that as of now to this date, right, Cloud can basically run on these max plans as well, too.

And so this is a feature that they're just slowly rolling out.

So in the meantime, what this video is going to focus is just running on your local computer, because it seems that that's what is most available to everyone as of now.

Okay, so I want to first talk about instructions.

So instructions are basically ways in how you can customize Claude and how it engages with you.

So the first instructions that we have is instructions for Claude, which is basically the global instructions and how you want Claude to talk to you.

The next one is co -work instructions, which is basically ways in how you want Claude to basically do specific tasks and co -work.

And then we finally have project instructions, which is basically telling Claude about what that project is and how it should work inside that project.

So I want to briefly talk about where are these instructions.

If you go over to your name and you click on settings and you go to general, you're going to immediately see instructions for Claude.

And just immediately reading this, you can tell that this is ways on how I want Claude to talk to me, right?

So keep your reply short and easy to skim.

Now, if you want to focus on how you want your tasks to be done inside Cowork, you can go over to the Cowork tab, scroll all the way to the bottom, and you're going to see something called global instructions, right?

If I click on edit, you're going to see that this type of instruction is more geared to how I want my tasks to be done.

Like before you delete, overwrite, or rename any of those files, show me exactly what will change and wait for me to confirm.

And then finally comes the project instructions.

So this is what we're going to be making.

Now, if you haven't had the chance yet, make sure you download all the different types of folders

or the starting folder in the video description so you can also follow along with us.

So I'm going to go over to my main cloud desktop I'm going to go over

and switch over to co -work

and then I'm going to click on this drop down

and basically create a new project and

so before I give it a name I'm just going to simply choose the folder

and this is the folder or the starter folder

that you have downloaded in the description

and then I'm basically going to click on canvas and co

and then I'm just going to give it a basic name like canvas

and co because that's what I want all my idea to go into

and then you're going to see this section called instructions right

so this is basically how I could define how Claude knows about the project

and how it should interact with this type of project

and you see over here that I basically have one already prepared

and I basically say that this project

so I give a little description what it is

and I basically also talk about what I want the tone to be

and how I want these documents to be set up all

you have to do now is just create the project

and there you go that your project is created and this is what we're going to be working inside.

Okay, so we're going to do our first task, which is basically taking that messy folder and organizing it.

And besides that, we're also going to talk about these concepts like CloudMD, which is going to provide us a short note for Cloud in order to make it easier to navigate in that folder.

All right, so I didn't tell you what exactly is inside our folder.

Like right now, there's a lot of things that's going on.

There's like these invoices, these meetings, this, I mean, I don't know, like it's messy, right?

And so I want to see how coworker can basically help me clean it all up.

So what I'm going to do inside here is I have a prompt from my guy

that I copied and I'm just going to paste it in here.

And the basic idea is I'm just telling it to help me clean the folder

and giving me like an idea of what that clean structure could look like, right?

So I say, show me the structure you have in mind, which files to go in and just, you know, wait for me to give you permission to do it.

And so in my case, there's a few configuration I'm going to change.

This is not a too complicated task.

So I don't think we're going to need to have Opus.

So I'm just going to simply go for SONET 5, and I've just set it to high.

And then I'm also going to set this over to auto -approve.

So you're going to see three types, manually approve, automatically approve, and skip all the approve.

So manually approve is basically this idea that, like, anytime Claude is going to do something, it's going to ask you permission.

Now, automatically approve, though, on the other hand, is more of like, instead of it asking you permission for every single task, it's basically going to keep on running until it deems a task dangerous

and that's when it's going to ask for your permission and

so that just kind of makes it at least for me a lot more smoother

so I don't have to keep on approving its changes

but some of you guys might want to be there to approve all these changes just to supervise it

and that's perfectly fine and then also there's skip all

that approval which is basically like Claude just go full on by itself even if there's some dangerous action, it's going to still keep on going.

So I will say just pick one of these two if you're going to pick a route.

So I'm going to automatically approve and I'm going to click on enter.

And then we're basically just going to wait for its response to come in.

All right.

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So along the way, as it's doing it, it's also going to be asking you some questions, right?

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So it sees that there's duplicate pairs and it's asking me what to do in those situations.

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In my case, I'll just say key one, leave the duplicate behind.

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You can see what about that PDF?

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Like, what do we do with it?

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And in my case, I'm just going to put it in a miscellaneous folder, right?

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And so once I answer those questions, you're going to see it's going to continue all of its work.

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So those situations might happen to you depending on how you set up your instructions or your prompt.

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Okay, so it looks like it has completed.

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So what we can do now is we can go back into our home inside here

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and now I'm going to click on this and let's see oh

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so much more easier to read you can see over here

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that now it basically took those different types of files

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and categorized them to different types of folders and

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so yeah this is pretty impressive

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that it was able to clean this up you can imagine

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what other type of folders it can clean in your own computer as well too

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but here's the thing right like the thing is is that

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if I were to even still give this folder to somebody or to clod, right?

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That means it's still going to need to go through each of the folders

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and read the files in order to understand the full context.

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So what I can do is I can actually put a file at the root of this type of folder

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or at the top of this folder, which basically describes about what this folder is, what are each of these folders for in order to make it easier to navigate.

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And that's where the clod that MD file comes in.

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Okay, so let's make this clod MD file.

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So if you're curious about what an MD file is, it's just basically a markdown file and the key idea is

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that it it's very easy for a claw to basically read instructions from it

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so what i'm going to do inside here is i'm going

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to copy paste from my prompt guide paste inside here

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which again is in the video description

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and it's basically saying it wants to create this claw the md file

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which is going to clearly break down what is exactly in this type of folder

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again i'm going to keep a sonify because it's not

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so complicated in fact i can even tone it down more

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but we'll just keep it like this this is going to take a few seconds

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so i'll see you guys in the bit okay

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so it has finally completed so we go back inside our canvas

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and coincide here

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and i click on the file you're going to now notice we have something called claude the md

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and so if i click on this column the md file you can see

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that now it basically has an explanation of what exactly this

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folder is what are the different types of folders in this folder

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and it gives a little description about what is my preference for my file naming as well too right

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so it gives more information for claude

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so it doesn't have to go through the entire folders of

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files again it could basically just read the cloud md to

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get a better understanding of how to navigate this folder i also want to add

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that this has additional benefits because it can help you save tokens

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because the thing is is that if you didn't have

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that cloud md what will happen is it will dig through the entire folder file to get the entire context

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and that does take tokens but if you have a file that's at the root

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or at the top of that folder

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that describes where exactly everything is at it makes it much more easier to navigate

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and get that information which requires less tokens All right.

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So if you ever have experience of making a doc, a sheet, maybe a dashboard or a small app, congrats, you basically have created something called an artifact.

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An artifact is whatever Claude has made inside this chat.

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And then you have something called a live artifact, which is basically a way to add live data to your artifact so it becomes more dynamic.

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And so what we're going to do is we are going to do that connections by using things called connectors.

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Connectors are basically these external apps that you can connect to your Claude

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so things like your google drive for example right

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so we're going to connect our google drive to a dashboard artifact

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that we're going to make in order to create a live artifact

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and it seems i have already spoiled myself

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but yeah as you can see over here we're going to build a dashboard

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that is going to stay current so it's going to take all of those cells

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that we did organize

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and it's going to create a nice live dashboard connected to our google drive okay

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so i am back into my cloud desktop

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and what i want to do is i want to consolidate all my cells into one file

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So if we currently look in our folders and we look at the cell's data, you're going to see we have all the cells for that year.

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And I just want to put that into one file.

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So I'm just going to copy and paste this prompt from my guide.

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And I'm just going to simply paste it here.

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And as I mentioned, it's going to look at the data folder and it's basically going to combine it into one spreadsheet.

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Okay, so what I'm going to do, and since this might be a little bit more on the complicated side, just for safety, I'm going to set it to Opus, oh, Opus 5.

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Actually, that just came out today and I'm just going to click enter going to give this a few minutes to process.

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So again as you're doing these things and depending on you set your instructions you can see it's asking me some questions.

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Oh I guess that was the only question

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but yeah as you go through it they'll ask you more questions whenever it needs your opinion on them.

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Okay so you can see that it has completed and it did pretty good.

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It was able to consolidate all of this into one file.

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Of course you're going to need to double check this to be sure

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but we're just going to make the assumption is true

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But there is some techniques to just make sure you can spot check to make sure things are in place.

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So what I want to do now is I want to take this consolidated cells

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and I want to upload it to my Google Drive.

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So a connector, right?

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So as I mentioned, Claude has the ability to connect to external apps.

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So what you can do inside here is you can click on this plus sign.

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You can go over to connectors and you can click on something called add connectors

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and browse connectors so you can already see

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that there is a variety of connectors you can connect to

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but in my case I want to connect to my google drive

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so I'm going to just simply click on google drive I'm going to connect it

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and it's just going to do this typical authentication process where

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it's going to need me to verify some information in my

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case I'm just going to go for the stoic programmer I know this is not canvas

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and co so I'm just using a random account for this I'm going to continue

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and I'm going to say yes I do want to give it access

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and then it's just going to get me back into

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that cloud after I give it that permission all right

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so now that we're actually back inside here okay

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so you can see it has connected to our google drive

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and now what I'm going to do is I'm just going

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to simply just download actually I'm just going to download the file just to show you guys

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that it is local so if I go inside to my canvas

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and co and I go over to here

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and I go to my cells data you're going to see the combined files located in here

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so if you want to access

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that you could just simply click on this folder oops sorry not

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that folder this folder right here in the top corner it's going to open your explorer

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and that's going to allow me to go inside here

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so i'm just going to simply click on my demo folder i'm going to go over to my cells data

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and i'm going to take this combine and you can see inside here

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that in my google drive i basically already have a folder prepared for this.

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So I'm just going to simply go inside here and I'm just going to drag it inside.

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Okay.

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And then you can see it has popped up inside there.

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All right.

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So now that I basically have it inside here now, now what I want to do is I want to create

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a live artifact where I want to basically have this dashboard

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be connected to this Excel sheet that's located on the Google Drive.

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So whenever I do changes to that cells, it's also going to update as well too

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so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go back into my prompt guide again

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and i'm just going to copy and paste it and so now

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if i go back into my uh clod what i'm going

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to do now is i'm going to say like i put

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the consolidated cell sheet in my google drive i basically want

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you to build me a live dashboard based on all of those different types of consolidated cell sheets okay

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and so basically i also added some functionality where there's a picker where i can pick the different mumps

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so I can see all the different information in a much nicer interface okay

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and so because this is going to be a little bit more complicated to build

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because it is doing a lot of connections I'm just going to use opus 5.

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Oh And I think one more thing, too, while we're doing that, we also want to make sure that I know this is security purposes, but just for our case,

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right, we want to make sure also that we share this publicly as well, too, so it'd be easy for it to access.

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So just make sure that you keep that a share.

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So now when I go back to my cloud and I click enter, it's still going to do that work and make all those connections and build that artifact.

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So I'll see you guys in a minute when this thing is finished processing.

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Okay, so as usual, it's going to ask me some questions.

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So it gives me some recommendations of how I should treat it.

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And I want this to be daily revenue trend.

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Okay, so it has finished creating our artifact.

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And I have to say, like, it was like the nicest artifact it has actually made for me.

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Like the previous demos I did, it didn't look this nice.

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So I'm quite impressed of it.

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So you can see over here that you can drop down and pick between the different types of months.

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And you can clearly see that its source data is from that Excel sheet from our Google Drive.

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Okay so i was going to show you the live artifacts

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but this is a good reason why we should double check the results from claude

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because you could see it set my quantity as dollar signs

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and i think it's causing some weird bugs in my live artifacts

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so let me just fix that real quick

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and then i'll show you guys this okay

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so welcome back you can see that now the quantity are finally working

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and the revenue has this dollar sign and you can see

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that i have overblowed the quantity just to prove my point

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that as i update the spreadsheet this will also update as well too it may take some time

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but this thing is a live artifact so they will update after a few seconds or a minute

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okay so we're at our final task

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but we're going to take these annoying reports

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that we have the right monthly and see how we can automate some aspects of

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that with skills okay so we basically create a new chat

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if you haven't had the chance

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if you looked at their monthly reports they all look relatively

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the same they basically look like this the same design except we have the different revenue units sold orders

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and month -to -month growth for that specific month and And so there's a lot of repetitive things that can be automated.

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So what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to copy and paste this prompt I have here.

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And I'm just going to simply paste it.

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All it's simply saying is it's going to look at my Excel sheet, look at the previous report, and just recreate that type of report.

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So we're making that artifact.

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And yeah, because this is interacting with various different types of files, I'm just going to keep it opus.

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So I'm going to run this, and I'll see you guys in a minute.

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All right.

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So it did a pretty good job.

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You can see it was able to get the same exact design and it was able to update the numbers.

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Of course, you would need to double check that.

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But, you know, I don't have to go through the entire design of it again.

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And so basically, this is fantastic.

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We have something that can or a prompt that could basically generate these type of reports.

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But the thing is, I don't want to remember that entire prompt again, right?

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I just want to be able to get like a certain keyword, like something like monthly report that automatically understands that it needs to make that report for that month.

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And so what I can do is create a skill, which basically takes these very long,

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repetitive type of instructions and makes them into these nice keyword repeatable workflows.

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So what I can do inside here is I can just simply go inside and say, hey, can you turn this into a reusable skill called monthly reports so I can make the same report for any months?

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So now what's going to happen is once I click enter, it's basically going to formulate this type of skill.

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And so now what's going to happen later on is I could just simply go over and type monthly

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report and run that.

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And I won't have to remember the entire prompt.

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It's going to remember all the detailed instructions in order to basically recreate those type of reports.

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And you can see that it is giving me some instructions.

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So I'm just going to say recommended for all of it.

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And it's also going to be testing some examples as well, too.

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So it's really important that you test your skill or have Cloud help you test the skills and verify those changes.

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All right so we have finished the skills now

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so now after we made those skills it can basically remember

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that prompt that we have made to make those monthly reports

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and we could just reference it by keyword

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so i'm going to save the skill

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because i already saved it i'm just going to upload

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and replace it again um

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but you can see over here now i could just simply say slash monthly reports

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and it's going to basically pop up now

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so anytime i want to write write a report for a specific month i could just simply save this

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and it's going to write it for me

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so what i'm going to simply say here is monthly reports click enter

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and then basically what's going to be happening is it's going to be asking me these questions all right

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so you can see over here that after running

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that type of skill you can see immediately it's going to be asking me some questions right

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so like what type of month do I want to write this report

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and so in my case I'm going to do July

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but you already know how that process works the key idea is this is

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that if there is like this really repeatable step -by -step instruction, you can make that to a repeatable workflow through skills.

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Okay, so I want to end it with schedules.

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So if there's something that you do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and it's super repetitive, schedules can be very useful.

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So in our case, because we We have to write like this monthly report.

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Well, why don't we run a schedule that runs that skill that helps us run that type of report?

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And that's going to help us automate a lot of this type of process of the reports.

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Alrighty, so now that we know we have this monthly skill right here, what I want to do is I want to genuinely run a schedule to run this monthly.

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So I'm going to copy and paste this prompt in the guide.

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And all I'm going to say is set up a schedule

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that runs the monthly report skill on the first of every month.

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And that's pretty much it.

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So I'm just going to simply click start task ask

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and it's a pretty broad request but i also want to do this purposely

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because i want to show you how basically claude is going

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to ask a lot of clarifying questions to make sure it understands what job needs to get done

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so you can immediately see it asked my first question

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which is going to be a and m okay

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so i thought it was going to ask me more questions

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but it looks like it's already done

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so basically for what i'm reading inside here what it's going to be doing is it's going to run

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that schedule at 8am and it's going to save it locally on my device

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and i'm just going is simply schedule it like so.

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And then you can see it has already completed.

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Okay.

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So what I'm going to do here is if I want to be able to test that, I can go to my schedule or I guess I can even go back inside here.

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And you can see that our schedule is saved in the corner.

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So I can technically click on this

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and I can actually run it now to verify whether or not it's able to do that.

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Typically, whenever you do your schedule before you make it really active, you will want to test it.

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So in my case, I can actually view and see if whether or not it's able to do those changed successfully.

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So I completely forgot that June has already been created.

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So what I'm going to simply do is I'm just going to go back inside here

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and I am just going to delete that file so we can actually verify the changes completely.

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So I'm just going to go over to my monthly reports, delete this, and then we're going to try this one more time.

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So it's simple as just going back inside to our schedule again, which you can also find in here.

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You can go to your schedules

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and you're going to see our schedule is located here

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and I could just run this now again and let's see

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if it's able to do those changes successfully all right

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so after a minute we are going to see

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if our report went out well and so

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if I were to click on this right here you can see

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that we were able to create our report for June there you go

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and so yes of course we actually ran this like now

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but basically from now on what's going to be happening from

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August 1st to 8 .01 a .m the next run is going to basically run the report for July

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and so on all right so congrats to making it to the end

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so what we were able to build is we were taking

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that messy folder we organized it

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and we were able to create a live dashboard from our drive

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and we were able to actually help automate our report by creating a skill

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and creating a schedule on top of that

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so yeah just grab the starter folder it's in the video description try for yourself

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and I wish you best of luck in playing cloud co -work Thank you.

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This video has 364 sentences and 5130 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:51. The speaker talks fast, about 224 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
folder noun	/ˈfoʊldɚ/	An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
instruction noun	/ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/	The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
cloud noun	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
prompt verb	/pɹɑmpt/	To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
skill noun	/skɪl/	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
approve verb	/əˈpɹuːv/	To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
pasta noun	/ˈpɑ.stə/	Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
canvas noun	/ˈkæn.vəs/	A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for…
sheet noun	/ʃit/	A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
messy adjective	/ˈmɛsi/	In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
complicated adjective	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	Difficult or convoluted.
organize verb	/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/	To arrange in working order.
verify verb	/ˈvɛɹɪfaɪ/	To substantiate or prove the truth of something.
navigate verb	/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/	To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
see over verb		To inspect something fully.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
drop down verb		To sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.
go over verb		To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
pop up verb		To come up with a "pop" sound.
break down verb		To stop functioning.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have downloaded · I've just set · has completed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be done · be set · is created
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	build, which is · build which is · Claude, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 134 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smooth /smuːð/, authentication /ɔːˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, sheet /ʃit/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like folder, instruction, cloud.

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