What Is an AI Agent? A Simple Guide for Non-Coders
A chat box gives you an answer. An AI agent gives you a finished outcome. Here is the difference, without the jargon.
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Instead of writing out your process for Claude, you can record yourself doing it once and let Claude write the skill.
Read now →A chat box gives you an answer. An AI agent gives you a finished outcome. Here is the difference, without the jargon.
Same question, two answers: one generic, one that sounds like you. The difference is seven questions you answer one time in your settings.
An eval is just a test-drive for a skill: a real request in, a look at the output, one line of feedback. No code, just your judgment.
Cowork has guardrails, but the real safety comes from three habits: the folder you point it at, how you phrase the ask, and watching the run.
Claude in Chrome is the bridge for tools with no connector. It works the page for you, then hands the results to Cowork.
A plugin bundles several skills and their connectors into one install, so a whole way of working travels as a package.
A skill teaches Cowork to run a repeated job the same way each time. And you build it by talking to Claude, not by coding.
Global instructions teach Claude about you. Projects teach it about one stream of work. Here is how to set up both.
Cowork does not learn your business on its own. Four building blocks let you hand it reusable context, each at a different scope.