Anthropic is adding interactive apps to Claude, letting users work directly with popular services inside the chatbot instead of switching tabs. The new feature supports tools like Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with a Salesforce integration promised soon, and is clearly aimed at office and enterprise workflows. Once an app is enabled, Claude can use a logged-in version of that service to send Slack messages, generate charts or visuals, or pull and organize files from cloud storage, depending on what has been connected. Anthropic argues that many tasks, such as analyzing data, designing content, or managing projects, work best with a visual interface, and that combining those interfaces with Claude’s reasoning should speed up how teams plan, review,e and ship work. The apps are available only to paying Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise customers, leaving free users out for now, and can be turned on through the Claude app directory.
The system is structurally similar to OpenAI’s app integrations, and both rely on the Model Context Protocol, an open standard Anthropic introduced in 2024 to make it easier for AI models to talk to external tools and data sources. The launch also sets up a deeper link with Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s new agent that can handle multi-step jobs over large, messy datasets, a category that previously required writing terminal commands or custom scripts. In the future, Cowork could use these apps to update a design in Figma, pull fresh numbers from Box, or keep ongoing workspaces synced across teams. That connection is not live yet, but Anthropic says Cowork support for apps is on the way.
The company is also stressing safety as it leans further into agentic behavior, urging customers to watch what Cowork does, limit its permission,s and avoid handing it sensitive material such as financial records or personal documents. It suggests setting up dedicated folders and tightly scoped access so Claude can help with complex work without touching data it does not need. The warning reflects wider worries about agentic AI, which can behave in unexpected ways when plugged into live business systems. Anthropic is selling Claude apps as a productivity boost, but still says humans should review changes and keep tight control over access.
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