From drafting Slack messages to updating project timelines on Asana, Claude now lets you work inside connected apps without ever leaving the chatbot. Here’s how it works.

The protocol that keeps on giving

In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its open-source project to bridge AI models, external tools, and data sources. In a nutshell, this gave AI chatbots and agents the tools required to interact with third-party platforms as if they were humans.

Since then, MCP has become the industry’s standard for agentic-powered, AI-based productivity, with countless companies, platforms, and developers building and deploying MCP servers to connect tools and data sources.

That includes Apple, which began working on MCP support across its operating systems last year, although there has been little movement on that front as of late.

Be it as it may, late last year, Anthopic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, and its market-wide adoption is only expected to grow.

Today, Anthropic announced that nine productivity tools and platforms are now available as interactive apps inside Claude thanks to MCP, including Asana, Canva, Figma, and Slack.

Here’s Anthropic’s demo of the new features:

And here’s Anthropic on what Claude users can do with each one:

• Amplitude – Build analytics charts, then explore trends and adjust parameters interactively to uncover hidden insights.
• ‍Asana – Turn chats into projects, tasks, and timelines your team can see and execute in Asana.
• Box – Search for files, preview documents inline, then extract insights and ask questions about your content.
• Canva – Create presentation outlines, then customize branding and design in real-time to produce client-ready decks.
• Clay – Research companies, find contacts with email and phone info, pull data like company size and funding, then draft personalized outreach directly in your conversation.
• Figma – Prompt to turn text and images into flow charts, Gantt charts, or other visual diagrams in FigJam.
• Hex – Ask data questions and get answers complete with interactive charts, tables, and citations.
• monday.com – Manage your work, run projects, update boards, smartly assign tasks, and visualize progress with insights.
• Slack (from Salesforce) – Search and retrieve Slack conversations for context, generate message drafts, format them your way, and review before you post.

Anthropic also says that Salesforce will be coming soon, to “bring enterprise context to Claude with Agentforce 360, enabling teams to reason, collaborate, and act from a single, connected interface.”

To learn more about these integrations, as well as many other connectors that extend Claude’s capabilities, head over to claude.ai/directory.

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