Cowork Onboarding & Mastery skills
These skills teach the MM team how to actually use Cowork well — getting set up, working safely, delegating clearly, scheduling recurring reports, building reusable team workflows, and creating your own skills — so rolling Claude out to all ~40 of us goes smoothly. Click any skill for its full guide with 20 Melinda Maria examples.
cowork-setup-wizardCowork Setup WizardBoth
A 15-minute guided interview that teaches Cowork who you are, your role at MM, how you write, and which tools you use — so every answer comes back tailored instead of generic. It writes you a personal preferences file plus a tidy starter work folder.
e.g. "Set me up as MM’s wholesale manager — I live in NuORDER and ApparelMagic, write line-sheet emails to buyers in our playful ‘everyday luxury’ voice, and the QuickBooks folder is off-limits. Build my preferences file and a wholesale work folder."
cowork-health-checkCowork Health CheckBoth
Audits how well you’re actually using Cowork across five areas — preferences, connected tools, skills, workflows, and advanced features — scores each one, and hands you the three highest-impact fixes. A low score is good news: it means easy wins.
e.g. "Run a Cowork health check on me — I’ve had Shopify, Klaviyo, and Gmail connected for months but I’m still doing my Monday sales recap by hand, so tell me where the biggest gaps are."
cowork-vs-chat-demoCowork vs Chat: Live DemoBoth
Shows the difference between regular AI chat and Cowork by running ONE of your real tasks both ways — a chat-style text answer vs. a real file (or set of files) saved to your folder — so the ‘why is this different?’ question answers itself.
e.g. "Show me chat vs Cowork on my real task: draft the August #marketing newsletter for our Pavé Huggies restock — do it as a plain chat reply, then as proper saved files, so my team can see why we’re switching."
what-can-cowork-doWhat Can Cowork Do (For You)Both
Maps YOUR specific MM role and daily tasks to specific Cowork capabilities — not a feature brochure. You leave with a prioritized ‘here’s what to use Cowork for, in this order’ roadmap and a realistic time-savings estimate.
e.g. "I run MM’s ecommerce — my week is sales recaps from Shopify, restock decisions from ShipHero, and Klaviyo campaigns. Map those to Cowork capabilities and tell me the highest-ROI thing to automate first."
safe-first-taskSafe First TaskBoth
A zero-risk first Cowork experience: it creates something genuinely useful in a brand-new folder — never touching your existing files — and explains exactly what Cowork did differently from chat. Perfect for a nervous first-timer.
e.g. "I’m brand new and a little nervous — I’m MM’s marketing coordinator and wish I had more time for content planning. Give me a safe first task in a new folder so I can’t break anything."
safety-and-auditSafety & AuditBoth
Sets up the guardrails that let you delegate to Cowork confidently instead of hovering: an off-limits list, a change log of everything Cowork touches, a drafts-before-finals rule, and a test sandbox — so any mistake is visible and reversible.
e.g. "Set up file safety for our finance person — the QuickBooks exports and vendor contracts in their Documents folder must be completely off-limits, and I want a change log so we can see everything Cowork ever touches."
delegation-coachDelegation CoachBoth
Teaches you to give Cowork instructions clear enough to get what you actually wanted on the first try. Most disappointing results come from vague asks — this fixes that with a simple three-question framework and ready-to-use templates.
e.g. "Teach me to delegate better — my ‘write a product description’ asks keep coming back off-brand. Use a real MM example: a PDP for our new tennis necklace in ‘everyday luxury’ voice, and show me the sharp version of that instruction."
skill-creator-guideSkill Creator GuideBoth
Interviews you about a task you repeat every week and walks you through turning it into your own custom Cowork skill — a one-phrase trigger that runs the whole thing the same way every time. No coding.
e.g. "I build the same MM weekly sales recap every Monday from Shopify and ShipHero — interview me and turn it into a custom skill I can trigger with ‘run my Monday recap’."
skill-customizerSkill CustomizerBoth
Tunes any Cowork skill that’s giving you generic output so it fits MM’s industry, voice, and terminology. The fix usually isn’t a different skill — it’s telling the skill about your world.
e.g. "The content skill writes for generic ecommerce — customize it for MM fashion jewelry: always lead with the piece (huggies, lariats, stacking rings), use ‘everyday luxury’ voice, never say ‘in today’s fast-paced world’."
find-skillsFind SkillsBoth
Helps you discover and install skills from the open agent-skills ecosystem when you wish Cowork could do something it doesn’t do yet. It checks what’s popular and trustworthy before recommending anything.
e.g. "Is there a trustworthy skill for generating polished PDF line sheets I could use for our NuORDER wholesale catalog — check installs and source before you recommend one."
dispatch-starterDispatch StarterBoth
Pairs your phone with Cowork so you can send tasks to your desktop from anywhere — in a meeting, commuting, at lunch — and get the finished result back on your phone. (Requires the Cowork Max plan.)
e.g. "Set up Dispatch and let me test it from my phone during a wholesale market — something like ‘pull this buyer’s recent orders from NuORDER and draft a follow-up’ while I’m on the floor."
first-scheduled-taskFirst Scheduled TaskBoth
Gets you past the ‘I know this exists but never set it up’ barrier by helping you schedule your first automatic recurring task — a morning brief, an end-of-day summary, a Monday status — and confirming it runs.
e.g. "Set up a recurring Monday 9am task that reads Shopify and ShipHero and posts me a weekend sales-and-inventory brief — walk me through the scheduling screen and test it once."
parallel-powerParallel PowerBoth
Shows you how to use Cowork’s parallel workers to run many independent jobs at once instead of one after another — turning, say, 30 minutes of batch work into 3–4. Almost nobody uses this, and it’s a huge speed-up.
e.g. "I have 20 new SKUs from the Lariat collection that each need a Shopify PDP description in MM voice — use parallel workers to draft them all at once and then merge into one review doc."
workflow-builderWorkflow BuilderBoth
Takes a repeating task from your actual MM work, breaks it into clear Cowork steps where each step’s output feeds the next, and saves it as a documented, reusable workflow — optionally packaged as a one-phrase skill for the whole team.
e.g. "Build a reusable workflow for our monthly wholesale recap — pull orders from NuORDER, cross-check inventory in ApparelMagic, draft the buyer summary in MM voice — and save it so any #wholesale teammate can run it."
context-managerContext ManagerBoth
Teaches you to handle big or multi-day projects without Cowork losing its place: break the work into stages, save a short handoff note between sessions, and recover cleanly if a session gets cut off. Files are the memory; the session is just the work.
e.g. "I want to build MM’s full Q4 content calendar across several days — break it into stages (themes ’ topics ’ calendar ’ briefs) and set up handoff notes so I never lose my place between sessions."
memory-systemMemory SystemBoth
Sets up file-based memory so Cowork always knows who you are, how you work, and where your MM projects stand — so you stop re-introducing yourself every session. Cowork starts each chat fresh; files give it persistent memory.
e.g. "Build me a memory system as MM’s marketing lead — capture our brand voice, the lavender/plum/hot-pink palette, my active projects (Lariat launch, Q4 calendar), and that campaign data comes from Klaviyo and Sprout Social."
