Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agent tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and translate it into a more general tool that non-coders can benefit from as well. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature that provides enterprise users with even more powerful capabilities within Cowork.
Behold, the plugin.
The basic idea of the plugin is simple. The plugin is designed to automate “professional” tasks within various departments of a company. Whether that function is drafting content for your marketing department, reviewing documents for risk for your company’s legal team, or drafting responses for customer support, the plugin is designed to streamline your work with a professional focus using agent automation.
The company says you can use the plugin to “tell Claude how to do things, what tools and data to pull, how to handle important workflows, and which slash commands to expose, so your team can get more consistent results.”
Matt Piccolella, who works on Anthropic’s product team, told TechCrunch that the plugin is built to be customized and that the company expects enterprise users to create their own custom use cases. Anthropic opened sourced 11 of its in-house plugins as part of Friday’s release, but noted that custom plugins are “easy to build, edit and share” and can be leveraged without much technical expertise.
The plugin was already available within Claude Code, and the extension to Cowork was designed to simply share it with different types of users using the same utility. “Really, what we’re doing with this launch is providing user-friendly, UI-driven features that we can bring into Cowork and make it available to as many people as possible,” Piccolella said.
Piccolella pointed to data analytics and sales as two departments within Anthropic where the plugin has already shown promise. “Sales has been a really big job for all of our direct sales people, but also to bring everyone in sales closer together and better connected to customers and customer feedback and all of that,” he said.
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Anthropic says that as more enterprise users utilize the plugin, Claude learns more about the company’s workflow and how to optimize it. Currently, plugins are stored locally on users’ computers, but Anthropic says an organization-wide sharing tool is in the works.
Cowork, which launched about two weeks ago, is currently in research preview. It’s unclear when it will be released more widely. For the time being, the plugin will be available to all paying Claude customers, Anthropic says.
