Week 1 — Agentic Cowork Tools

Welcome to Week 1! Week 1 is open to everyone. The goal: by the end of the week you can research, report, and build scientific software noticeably faster with Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code — grounded in a working understanding of how LLMs and agents actually behave, so you can validate what they produce.

Objectives

By the end of the week you should be able to:

• Explain, at a working level, how LLMs and agents operate.
• Use Claude and Claude Cowork for research, reporting, brainstorming, red-teaming, and admin tasks.
• Apply context-engineering strategies and use skills effectively.
• Use Claude Code for scientific programming, from the basics through more advanced agent management.

The week at a glance

• Day 1: How LLMs and Agents Work.
• Day 2: Meeting and using the Claude Family.
• Day 3: An introduction to skills, tools, and deep research.
• Day 4: Coding with Claude.
• Day 5: Wrap-up.

The Week's core:

Skills: skills give agents superpowers, and the most effective means of knowledge transfer, and allow organizations to scale by packaging and distributing capabilities. They can also be embedded across all agentic systems including the cowork tools for this week and the agentic systems we will build in the following week.