Question 1

What is Cowork Plugins?

Accepted Answer

Cowork Plugins are role-specific bundles that give Cowork domain expertise for a specific job function. Each plugin packages together skills (step-by-step workflows for common tasks), connectors (access to the tools that role uses), and subagents (parallel workers for tasks that have many independent pieces). There are open-source plugins for most knowledge-work roles — sales, marketing, product, finance, legal, ops, CS, data — available on GitHub at github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. Install in one click from Cowork's Customize area. Once installed, the plugin is a folder on your machine: every file is readable plain text, every skill is editable, and you can add new skills or modify existing ones with no build step. Plugins compose with scheduled tasks: a skill encodes what to do, a scheduled task decides when. The result is recurring work that runs on its own. Not the same as Claude Code plugins, which distribute Claude Code Skills for developer workflows.

Question 2

What is another name for Cowork Plugins?

Accepted Answer

Cowork Plugins is also known as: Cowork plugin, knowledge work plugin.