So today's episode is about Claude's new capabilities, which
enable you to actually experience the phenomenon of
Open Claw in a much more secure and Safeway.
If you haven't listened to last week's episode, we'll be delving
into some of the most exciting things Open Claw brought to the
world and how Claude has now brought it to everybody else.
Because over the past month, Anthropic has shipped more
incredible features to Claude than most companies ship it a
year. They are on a generational run
and it's why we're doing a number of episodes on them.
Computer use, dispatch schedule tasks, and and honestly just so
many more. And I can guarantee most people
see announcements or hear about them but don't do anything with
it. And after just a couple of weeks
of using these new features, I am honestly obsessed.
I'm in love. It's led to the biggest impact
on how I work with any feature ever released, probably since
Chachi PT. And I'm truly not over
exaggerating. This is a very practical
episode. I'm going to walk through the
top three features that will most likely change how you work
day-to-day for the rest of your life, how to set them up, and
exactly the best use cases. I'd recommend you start with
This is In the Loop with Jack Horn.
Hope you enjoy the show. Obviously for all those that
TuneIn every single week, you'll probably know that I've done a
number of episodes on Claude and Claude Co work and normally I
wouldn't try to cover a single topic too much, but really right
now they are doing incredible things.
They've actually just taken over open AI's run rate in revenue.
They are blowing up and honestly, all these new features
are quite amazing because if you've been paying attention to
the AI agent space and in the loop you, you'll obviously know
that Openclaw has been the thing many, many people are talking
about right now. And I covered it in last week's
episode. By the end of this episode, I
hope many people go back and do listen to last week's episode.
It'll be a really helpful explainer about why all these
features are so important. But in short, it launched
earlier this year. It became the fastest growing
open source project in history. It literally took over Linux as
the most downloaded and accessed open source project ever.
And by the way, Linux, for those that don't know, is the basis of
most modern operating systems. And Open Core importantly
introduced a pattern of how AI agents are built that has
clearly resonated with basically everybody.
It's always on. It's running on your computer.
You can message it from your phone, it can browse the web, it
can control your screen and just do actual real amazing work.
And it can access skills that you've made or skills ecosystem
other people have made. So it can certainly string many
different specialized tasks together, literally set up
anything on your PC that you need it to and take any action
basically that is possible for a human to take.
But the problem was that open core A required quite a lot of
technical setup. It has a lot of security risks
and therefore often needed people to buy a Mac mini or some
sort of dedicated local machine that basically you leave turned
on permanently and that isn't connected to anything like your
banking details or IP that maybe the company you work for has.
Because ultimately you could access anything on your
computer, which is really powerful, but also, as you can
imagine, quite dangerous because it's an open source ecosystem
and people have snuck a lot of nasty prompt injections into
like skills and other things within the open core ecosystem
that are hard to prevent or sometimes spot.
Well, Anthropic over this past kind of two to four weeks has
basically been shipping the exact same set of capabilities.
So scheduling remote control use from, you know, any different
device computer use, but inside a much safer environment for
their Co work product. Now, if you don't know much
about claw Co work or skills or open claw again, go back to
those episodes. They'll provide a really
interesting basis for you to get the most out of this episode.
And as a result of cord shipping all these new things, you now
don't need a dedicated machine. You don't need to be super
technical. It's much safer, though still
can be risky if you don't take simple precautions.
And as a result, I think most people listening to this podcast
should now go and set this up ASAP.
And the three features that make this work and what we'll talk
about today, as well as the use cases that you should start with
are scheduled tasks, something called dispatch and then
computer use. Everything else like connectors,
skills, plugins is supporting infrastructure that makes those
three things just infinitely better.
So let's start with scheduled tasks because this is where the
always on agent experience starts.
And to be honest, once you've got a bunch of skills and you've
got a bunch of plugins or connectors, so so essentially
integrations and MCPS, this is where your life just starts to
get better. So for example, if you type
schedule into clock Co work and you say, I want to set up a task
that runs on a recurring basis, let's say every Monday, every
Friday, every few hours, whatever that task needs, you
then write a prompt. So that would be the instruction
for what clock should go. And do you choose which
connectors it should use. So if you connect to Gmail or
Slack or your CRM, the scheduled task, we'll just pull from those
as it needs to. You can set a frequency and then
it just runs. And every time it fires, Claude
basically runs that set of prompts.
You have to have your PC turned on for it to happen.
It will access any skills that you've got.
It'll access any MCPS that you've got access to and it will
just run the task and it will pop up called scheduled tasks on
your left hand NAV on Claude and it will literally come up.
So like morning e-mail triage with all the, you know, emails
that have come through, prioritize based on where you
should respond and it can even write them and you can just
approve send this e-mail, don't send that e-mail.
And it really is that simple for anybody that uses claw code a
lot in Visual Studio Code or whatever IDE that you might be
using, you'll be very familiar with the fact that you just tell
Claude to go and do it for you. And because it can access your
PC, which will come on to you in a minute through bash commands
and things like that, or it can go install things from the web
and set it up for you to help you actually set things up
without having to manually click around.
You get very used to saying you go do it for me, or if it says I
can't do that, you're lying. Go and do that for me until you
reach a point where it truly can't do that.
As you'll start to learn there's very few things that it cannot
do on your PC. So yeah, every time you want to
do something, I just want you to go to the chat and say do this
for me. Set up this scheduled task.
And I'm going to give you a few example, you know, use cases
that you should start with with scheduled tasks.
And if you dedicate, let's say one hour of your time, don't
overthink it at all. Just set it up.
I promise that you'll have some really, really helpful tasks set
up that are going to change how you look at AI.
So one of my favourites is a morning e-mail and Slack triage.
So I've connected my Gmail and my Slack and my calendar to it.
It also has access to other sources of information.
So it has access to HubSpot. It also has access to
monday.com, which is a project management tool that we use.
So it finds all the different emails and then essentially
based on a criteria that I've given instructions for, it
triages it. So I wake up literally, and it
says these are all the emails, Top priority, medium, low
priority. It also provides a summary of
any newsletters or potential just emails I've been CC Ed on
that I don't need to take action on and a suggested reply to each
one of them. Now I might think, well that's
not helpful. It doesn't know how I speak.
Well, because it has access to my Gmail and my Slack, I've
actually created a skill which is essentially my tone of voice
based on the medium I'm speaking in.
So it literally has a skill called Jack's tone of Voice and
that basically summarizes the way that I speak.
And it will then draft responses it based on that.
And because it's connected to Gmail, it can draft and then
send an e-mail. The only thing it can't do
unfortunately is delete things for me.
And as well as that skill for my tone of voice, I've created
another one, which is my categorization rule.
So how do I decide what's high, medium and low priority?
So again, that scheduled task, which is triage my emails then
says use XYZ skills that you've made and it already has access
to the integrations that I've set up.
And the way I set those integrations up, by the way, is
you've got a connectors library on cloud or go and say to cloud,
find the MCP server for Gmail or whatever software you use and go
and set it up for me. And it will just go through
processes. Now on the connector library for
those that have got Mac or if you look for a specific tool
called desktop Commander, it can actually access your terminal.
So it can act as a human on your PC.
So it can literally set up anything.
So I always often just say go and find the MCP server for X
system. Go set it up for me.
And if it says I need you to do these things, just go, no,
you're lying. I want you to do them for me.
Use desktop commander. Now you can find desktop
commander. I've also got control your Mac
and also clawed in Chrome. These are tools on the clawed
library of connectors that you can just add in a couple of
minutes. And then from there it can
basically set up anything for you through conversations.
So you don't need to be super technical.
Another use case, for example, that's a scheduled task is a
meta automation workflow. So I plugged it into Slack
Calendar Monday, all the different systems, and it
basically once a week does a massive scan of all tasks or
things that I might be doing. And it suggests exact ways to
automate specific tasks. And it gives me a prompt to give
to Claude, which would then create a scheduled task and any
skills that it needs or integrations that it needs to go
and automate that task for me. Again, the objective is to
constantly minimize the amount of things I'm doing that I don't
need to do. So yeah, I've got prep meetings.
I've got a daily slot catch up. I've got one which is customer
voice, so it scans all information from all customers.
The list kind of goes on. So yeah, the pattern's always
the same. A scheduled task for when to run
it, the right connectors, which you can set up by giving access
to Desktop Commander Control, My Mac, and Claude in Chrome.
And then it will do it all for you.
And every time you want to improve a task, you just tell
Claude, I want to improve the scheduled task and it can do it
for you through a conversation. OK, so let's move on to feature
#2 which is dispatch. Dispatch lets you control all of
this from your phone. So it's a basically a persistent
conversation with Claude that runs on your desktop, but you
can access it remotely. For those that made the switch
to Claude Co work, you will now know that essentially because it
runs on your PC and it's saving files to your PC, you have to
access it from your PC. Whereas what happens here is
that you can essentially force your Mac or your PC to stay
turned on when dispatch from your phone is on.
So you can force your PC to stay on while it's running tasks on
your phone, and you can just give it more and more
instructions. Setting it up takes minutes.
You literally just open the core desktop up, click dispatch on
the left hand sidebar, Click to get started.
And essentially you can scan the QR code with your phone and it
will pair with your desktop. So yeah, you can then send it
tasks. It'll do it for you.
You can interact it from your phone.
And this is where scheduled tasks become really powerful
because you can check the outputs, you can look at this
information, or you could just get it to go and do a really big
chunky, powerful task whilst you're on the move.
If anyone remembers or listened to the episode of of why AI
doesn't reduce the amount of time you spend working well,
this is another good example of it.
Suddenly you just have this hugely powerful system at your
fingertips 24/7. So every idea that pops into
your head, you can just quickly voice note it into this into
Claude on your phone and away it goes.
And Paval Haran, who who wrote a really detailed and great
breakdown about all these new features after about 48 hours of
testing, described this shift quite well, which is your phone
is now the command chair. Your desktop does the heavy
lifting and and then said dispatch didn't fill my dead
time. It changed how I structured my
day. I went to the jump arena with my
kids because I could direct work async from the sidelines.
Now the same constraint applies. So your desktop must be open and
the app must be open. But once it's running, you can
do this work from anywhere. OK #3 computer use.
So desktop commander control your Mac clawed in Chrome, these
amazing abilities to allow claw to completely take over your
computer. You know, once it's on, it can
see your screen, it can control your mouse, it can access your
terminal. It can literally set up any
application when you ask cloud to do something and if it has a
connector for that service, it you know, Slack, Gmail,
whatever, it can use that connector first.
It's super, super easy. And when there's no connector,
it could then open up a tab on your laptop and access the
website through SSO. So through a normal like Google
sign in. So as long as you sign into the
application, it will work. Or with those three
applications, and I'm going to keep saying them because they're
important, Desktop Commander, control your Mac Claude in
Chrome, suddenly it can actually set up integrations for you.
So again, if you use those three applications and tools, it can
quite literally access and do anything you want.
And it can set up integrations for anything you need as long as
there's an MCP server out there in the world by this company.
And most of the big, big companies have provided MCP
servers for pretty much everything you can imagine.
Claude can connect to it. You can then literally have one
place where you can scan every system in the entire world and
run scheduled tasks on it. It's that amazing.
And like, just to give you an example, I've set it up in
literally took me about an hour, set it up to monday.com
fireflies. I set it up to Gong, which is
where the team essentially have all like calls with prospects
into it. I've got Slack, I've got
HubSpot, I've got Google Calendar, Figma, G Drive, Gmail.
And because I've got about 25 different skills that are really
appropriate for everything from work to personal life, suddenly
from my phone, I can now just do almost anything.
It is truly that magical and it will change how you think about
work forever. And the best bit is, and I'm
going to keep saying this because it's not important.
If you need help, go to Claude on Claude Co work just like you
would on Claude code in Visual Studio Code and say, help me set
this thing up. And as long as you've given it
the right access, it can do it for you.
And if it says no, I can't do this, you go, you are lying.
Go and do it for me anyway.
So what does all of this mean? Well, the combination of these
three new features is such a major development for people
using AI every day. Scheduled tasks means work
happens automatically for you, dispatch enables you to direct
it from everywhere, and computer use control your Mac desktop
commander. These new tools allow you to get
AI to do everything for you to set these things up together.
They give you something genuinely resembling an always
on assistant which can truly do things that are remarkable,
which is exactly what Opencloud demonstrated that people wanted.
And now it's just delivered in a way that doesn't have as much
risk, is super simple, super friendly and all bundled into
your $20.00 or £20 a month license.
And the only problem with it is that you will consume more
credits than you ever imagined. So you do have to set it for a
smaller language model or a cheaper language model.
So yeah, the gap between people who have seen this and people
have set this up is going to continue to widen.
We're in AK shaped economy where on the one hand, those people
that adopt this quickly are going to be 10X people and in
10X the output and 10X more valuable and those that don't
are going to fall behind so quickly.
It's worrying. See, I start with scheduled
tasks, dispatch computer, use command my PC, set up the
morning triage or a task that is really simple for you to get
your head around and then go from there.
Anyway, thanks for listening and I'll see you next time.