My Full Claude Cowork Setup (steal my workflows!)
Summary
Tina Huang shares her complete Claude Cowork automation system that autonomously builds workflows and dashboards every night—and she's giving away her exact prompts. The key to success: always demand a PRD (Product Requirements Document) before building anything, aggressive note-taking for memory management, and explicit sign-off protocols to prevent AI from building the wrong thing.
Key Takeaways
- Require Claude to write a detailed PRD before any build starts, including problem statement, success criteria, scope, constraints, and build plans. This prevents wasted time on misaligned outputs.
- Configure Claude's operating instructions with four core sections: Building Things (PRD-first), Push Back & Clarification (challenge your decisions), Note-Taking (aggressive documentation), and Reversibility (confirm hard-to-reverse actions).
- Memory management is critical for Cowork—make aggressive note-taking part of Claude's personality from the start to avoid losing context across autonomous overnight builds.
- Build a Master PRD first that blueprints your entire Cowork system before creating individual projects—this acts as your system's foundation and prevents cascading build errors.
- Use custom Cowork skills (set instructions for specific tasks) to create reusable automation patterns across projects like daily digests, investment dashboards, and resource hubs.
Topics
- Claude Cowork Setup & Configuration
- PRD-Driven AI Development
- Autonomous Workflow Automation
- AI Memory Management Systems
- Product Requirements for AI Agents
Transcript Excerpt
This is my Claude Corore setup. Every morning I receive a daily digest on my Apple notes with all of my investments, calendar events, emails, and action items for the day. And if I want to dive deeper into my investments, I can go to my custom investments dashboard. I also have Co-work autonomously building me new software and workflows every night. So, I can also check out my mission control dashboard and see what projects it's built for me. For example, last night it built for me this resource hub. So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to set up a system like this, but custom for you. I will also be giving you my co-work prompts along the way, so you can just copy paste and steal them directly. You're welcome. And no, you don't even need to know how to code. Anyways, without furth…