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skills

Built-in ready-made procedures, from Microsoft and Anthropic's Claude, that Cowork uses for jobs such as calendar management and daily briefings.

Which capability it is

The same thing at other vendors

ChatGPT
Skills (Business, Enterprise, Healthcare, Edu)
Gemini
skills (replacing Gems)
Perplexity
Skills (replaced Workflows, Sept 23, 2026)
Meta AI and Muse
skills (Muse) — built by Meta only

Details

Status
GA (with Cowork)
Where you find it
Copilot Cowork
Part of
Copilot Cowork
Plans
Microsoft 365 Copilot licence (the requirement for Cowork)
Learn

Where we teach it

Encode a method so someone else runs it: you take a task you personally do, encode it, and watch a colleague run it without you. It's in the longer class, or a private session for your team.

Register interest → Or: a session built around your own team's work →