Status Update
Synthesize project progress into a RAG-status update (Green/Amber/Red + 2–3 line narrative + next milestone) calibrated for the specified audience.
Creative Brief
Structure a vague project problem into a clear, actionable creative brief with audience, principles, and constraints
Setup Wizard
Run the Cowork workspace onboarding wizard — personalized setup for your goal (study, research, writing, PM, creative, business, personal-assistant)
Feedback Synthesizer
Combine feedback from multiple sources into a clear, prioritized creative direction for the next iteration
Flashcard Generation
Generate Anki-ready flashcards from source material using spaced-repetition best practices (atomicity, cloze deletion, minimum information principle).
Pull Updates
Host the skill-content pull flow — classify every installed curated skill via fresh-bytes-on-both-sides against the on-disk pool and the workspace's own install manifest, offer per-component updates with no silent overwrite, and stand as the mechanism that backfills the three mandatory safety skills (self-apply, self-archive, self-upgrade) into any workspace that runs this flow — Face 1 of the v2…
Doc Summary
Extract the key insight and supporting points from any business document for fast understanding and decision-making
Note Taking
Convert reading material into organized, concise study notes using a hybrid framework auto-selected from source type (Cornell, Outline, Zettelkasten, or Lightweight bulleted).
Daily Briefing
Summarize today's schedule, open tasks, and pending follow-ups into a concise morning brief from local files
Outline Generator
Create a structured, specific outline for any type of written content
Risk Assessment
Identify and tabulate the top 5–7 project risks with likelihood, impact, and mitigation, then surface the top-2 priority risks in a short prose section.
Research Synthesis
Synthesize sources at peer-review rigor using a 7-column matrix (claim, method, evidence, limitations, authority, recency, citation-network) with structured Agreements, Disagreements, Gaps, and Synthesis sections.
Voice Matching
Write new content in the user's established voice and style, based on samples from their previous work
Ideation Partner
Generate a range of genuinely distinct creative directions for a project, brief, or open-ended creative problem
Spend Awareness
Summarize pasted transaction data by category in plain language to surface spending patterns — descriptive only, does not provide investment advice, budgeting recommendations, or savings plans
Self Upgrade
Host the kit-version walk-forward contract and the two-write-class self-integrity invariant (verify-then-swap on safety machinery) for replacing a workspace's own engine/framework machinery across kit versions — the third deny-listed sibling to self-apply/self-archive, dormant at v2.19 (zero real forward-walk targets) but installed and reachable now so no future rung has to backfill the gate (ADR…
Follow Up Tracker
Log and surface pending commitments — things you owe others and things others owe you — from conversations, notes, and inbox snippets
Source Analysis
Evaluate a single source across 7 structured fields (source type, authority, methodology, evidence quality, limitations, bias, bottom line) with an explicit citation recommendation.
Anti Ai Slop
Remove AI-tell vocabulary, uniform sentence rhythm, and empty hedging from drafted content, without flagging the writer's own established style
Action Items
Identify and structure action items from a meeting, email thread, or document into a clear, owned list
Email Drafting
Draft professional emails in the appropriate tone and format for the recipient and desired outcome
Self Archive
Host the auto-cleaning move-eligibility gate, destination gating, reversible-move-log rollback, and reference-integrity verification for proposing a stale/superseded file's relocation into the local archive convention — the sibling, mandatory, deny-listed skill to self-apply, holding the PATH-relocation operation type separately so neither module carries two verification concerns (ADR-066)
List Tracker
Create and maintain structured tracking lists — guest lists, RSVPs, vendors, applications, inventories — as local markdown tables with statuses, counts, and follow-up flags.
Self Apply
Host the memory-of-use ledger's schema/counting/status-vocabulary convention and the confirmed-proposal apply/verify/rollback/SECGATE machinery — the single, mandatory, deny-listed skill so this governing prose is reliably present from setup (Mode A + Mode B) and can never itself be an apply's target (ADR-061)
Prompt Gate
Enrich vague prompts before execution by reading workspace context, scanning local files for the topic, asking up to 3 grounded clarifying questions, then executing with full context. Skips silently for clear prompts and for any prompt prefixed with `*`.
Skill Studio
Brainstorm a novel need, then author, install, and validate a working local skill on the spot — Cowork's generative path alongside its fixed skill pool
Meeting Notes
Extract structured decisions, action items, and open questions from a meeting transcript or rough notes into a clean 4-section summary.
Citation Formatter
Format references and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard style from pasted source details, a bibliography draft, or sources discussed in the session.
Editing Pass
Review a draft and return specific, actionable editing suggestions at the level the writer requests
Literature Review
Organize multiple sources into a thematic matrix with cross-source synthesis and gap analysis, stating detected theme and source counts at the top of the output.