Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

Claude users volition present beryllium capable to telephone up interactive apps wrong the chatbot interface, acknowledgment to a caller diagnostic announced by Anthropic connected Monday.

In keeping with Anthropic’s endeavor focus, the motorboat apps are mostly workplace tools, including Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with a Salesforce implementation expected soon. In each case, the app volition alteration a logged-in lawsuit of the work that’s accessible to Claude, enabling users to nonstop Slack messages, make charts, oregon entree unreality files, depending connected which apps person been enabled.

“Analyzing data, designing content, and managing projects each enactment amended with a dedicated ocular interface,” Anthropic said successful a blog station announcing the feature. “Combined with Claude’s intelligence, you tin enactment and iterate faster than either could connection alone.”

The caller diagnostic is disposable to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, but not escaped users. Eligible users tin activate the tools astatine claude.ai/directory.

The strategy is akin to OpenAI’s Apps system, which launched successful October and besides enables interactive third-party tools. Both systems of app integrations are built connected the Model Context Protocol, an unfastened modular introduced by Anthropic successful 2024. MCP launched support for apps successful November, drafting connected enactment from some companies.

The caller apps volition beryllium peculiarly almighty erstwhile integrated with Claude Cowork, an all-purpose cause instrumentality launched by Anthropic past week. Built connected apical of Claude Code, Cowork lets users delegate multi-stage tasks that gully connected ample and open-ended datasets — tasks that would person antecedently required terminal commands. Combined with the caller apps feature, Cowork could beryllium granted entree to unreality files oregon ongoing enactment projects. For example, Cowork could update a selling graphic successful Figma oregon usage caller information from the company’s Box instance.

Apps are not disposable successful Cowork astatine launch, but Anthropic said the integration would beryllium “coming soon.”

Agentic systems tin beryllium unpredictable, and Anthropic’s ain information documentation for Cowork encourages users to show the cause intimately and not assistance immoderate unnecessary permissions.

“Be cautious astir granting entree to delicate accusation similar fiscal documents, credentials, oregon idiosyncratic records,” the institution recommends. “Consider creating a dedicated moving folder for Claude alternatively than granting wide access.”