Anthropic has been constructing out help for third-party apps within Claude. As of in the present day, the chatbot can now connect with platforms like Slack and Canva, fetching up recordsdata from inside these apps or performing duties inside them on a person’s behalf.
As an illustration, when linked to Field, Claude can now seek for recordsdata, preview paperwork inline and reply questions in regards to the content material in entrance of you. In the meantime, with a connection to Asana, it may now flip chats into tasks, duties and timelines your co-workers can then discover and work together with on the venture administration app.
Field and Asana are simply two of the platforms including deeper integrations with Claude in the present day. In complete, there are 9 launch companions, with among the extra notable ones together with Canva, Figma and Slack.
As with Anthropic’s previous integrations, the brand new performance is powered by Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) servers. MCP is a know-how Anthropic launched in fall 2024 to make it simpler for third-party platforms to attach their techniques to Claude. Since then, the protocol has turn into an trade commonplace. OpenAI, as an illustration, adopted MCP final 12 months, and has been constructing further help since then. On the finish of final 12 months, Anthropic donated the protocol to the Linux Basis. The corporate says AI platforms will have the ability to deliver related integrations to their very own merchandise since they’re constructed on a brand new open extension designed by Anthropic.
