Free Lesson
Become a power user of Claude desktop
60 min
Aug 4, 2026 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Know which mode does what
Chat, Cowork and Code each handle different kinds of work. You'll see where a task belongs and how to decide.
Give Claude context, then extend it with skills
Setup layered context with folders, md files and standing instructions.Execute tasks skills and plugins.
Delegate tasks from your mobile with Dispatch
Use Dispatch to execute multi-step agentic tasks from your mobile.
Create Skills with Claude Cowork
Execute full workflows in Cowork and turn them into skills.
Schedule daily workflows and briefs
Use the schedule feature to automate and execute morning briefs, research runs and more.
Why this topic matters
Claude desktop works on the files already on your computer. Cowork runs tasks and returns finished deliverables, including spreadsheets with formulas that work and decks you can send. Dispatch runs the job in the background while you do something else, and none of it needs a terminal. With persistent context and agentic features, Claude desktop gives you the power to delegate actual work to AI.
You'll learn from

Sash Mohapatra
AI Educator & Agentic Practitioner | 20 Years in Microsoft | Founder riftlab.ai
Previously at