Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agency is designed to take the strengths of the AI coding assistant Claude Code and turn it into a more general-purpose tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has released a new feature in Cowork to make it even more powerful for enterprise users.
Here’s the plug-in.
The idea behind plugins is simple: They’re designed to automate “specialized” tasks across a company’s various departments. Whether that function is writing content for the marketing department, reviewing documents for risks for a company’s legal team, or writing responses for customer support, the plugin is designed to use agent automation to streamline work with a specialized focus.
The company says you can use plugins to “tell Claude how you like the work done, what tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent results.”
Matt Piccolella, who works on the product team at Anthropic, told TechCrunch that the plugins are built to be customizable, and that the company expects enterprise users to create their own custom cases. Anthropic provided 11 of its in-house plugins as part of Friday’s release, but noted that custom plugins are “easy to create, edit and share” and can be used without much technical expertise.
The additions have already been made available within the Claude Code for some time, and their Cowork extension is designed simply to use the same utility and share it with different types of users. “Really, what we’re doing with this release is just bringing them into Cowork and giving them this kind of user-friendly, UI-centric flavor that will allow the maximum number of people to use them,” Piccolella said.
Piccolella pointed to data analytics and sales as two departments within Anthropic where plug-ins have already shown promise. “Sales were really big, both for our direct sellers, but then we just made anyone who has sales next door better connected with customer and customer feedback and all that,” he said.
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Anthropic says that the more enterprise users use plugins, the more Claude learns about a company’s workflows and how to optimize them. Currently, plugins are stored locally on a user’s machine, though Anthropic says an organization-wide sharing tool is on the way.
Cowork, which just launched about two weeks ago, is currently in research preview. It’s unclear when it will be released more widely. For now, the add-ons will be available to all paying Claude customers, Anthropic says.
