Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork With Enterprise Connectors and Plugins

Anthropic said Tuesday it is expanding the release of Claude Cowork with a new set of enterprise connectors and customizable plugins, marking the tool’s shift from a research preview into a full enterprise product. Organizations can now connect Cowork to platforms such as Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign and FactSet, and deploy role-specific plugins across areas including financial analysis, engineering and human resources. The updates are designed to embed Claude more deeply into day-to-day workplace software while giving administrators greater control over how it’s used.

Claude Cowork first launched in research mode last month, rattling software stocks as investors weighed how AI agents could reshape knowledge work. With Tuesday’s announcement, Anthropic is positioning Cowork as enterprise-ready. Kate Jensen, Anthropic’s Head of Americas, said the goal is to make the tool “much more accessible and much more ready for anyone to be able to use,” emphasizing that the new release brings the product closer to mainstream workplace adoption.

The update centers on plugins — portable systems that companies can configure to reflect their own workflows and institutional knowledge. Admins can build plugins from starter templates or from scratch, with Claude guiding setup through structured questions. A new “Customize” menu consolidates plugins, skills and connectors into one management hub. Organizations can also create private plugin marketplaces, control access at the user level, and, in private beta, use private GitHub repositories as plugin sources.

Anthropic also expanded Cowork’s connector library. New integrations include Google Workspace (Calendar, Drive, Gmail), Docusign, Apollo, Clay, Outreach, Similarweb, MSCI, LegalZoom, FactSet, WordPress and Harvey. Companies such as Slack by Salesforce, LSEG, S&P Global, Apollo, Common Room and Tribe AI have built plugins for joint customers. Cowork can now orchestrate multi-step tasks across Excel and PowerPoint in research preview, passing context between applications to complete projects end-to-end.

The company is also adding OpenTelemetry support, allowing administrators to track usage, costs and tool activity across teams — a feature aimed squarely at enterprise IT oversight.

Anthropic says roughly 80% of its business already comes from enterprise customers, and the Cowork expansion builds on that focus. Jensen compared Cowork’s trajectory to Claude Code, the company’s AI coding tool, which has gained adoption across companies over the past year. “Engineers think about Claude Code as a tool that they just couldn’t live without anymore,” she said. “We expect that every knowledge worker will feel that way about Cowork.”

Investors had braced for the announcement, given the market reaction to Cowork’s initial unveiling. Software stocks rallied Tuesday after the company disclosed its partner list and product details, following a sharp drop in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF on Monday.

Anthropic executives also addressed concerns about AI’s labor impact. During a livestream, Peter McCrory, the company’s head of economics, said Anthropic is not yet seeing evidence of widespread job displacement, though he acknowledged that some roles, such as data entry, may face higher risk. He characterized the effects as likely to be uneven, similar to past waves of information technology.

Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers and executives, Anthropic has grown rapidly since launching its Claude chatbot in 2023, reaching a reported valuation of $380 billion. As rivals like OpenAI and Google compete for enterprise AI contracts, Cowork represents Anthropic’s bid to move beyond standalone chatbots and embed its models directly into the tools employees already use.

By combining internal context, administrative controls and workflow-specific plugins, Anthropic is betting that enterprise adoption will hinge less on raw model capability and more on how seamlessly AI fits into existing software. Whether Cowork becomes as indispensable to knowledge workers as Claude Code has for engineers will depend on how well those integrations translate into measurable productivity gains.

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This analysis is based on reporting from CNBC.

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