Earlier this month, Anthropic announced Cowork, a new agent tool that aims to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and transform it into a more general-purpose tool that even non-programmers can benefit from. Now, Anthropic has introduced new features within Cowork to provide even more powerful capabilities for enterprise users.
Look, it’s a plugin.
The idea behind the plugin is simple. Plugins are designed to automate “special” tasks within different departments of a company. Whether the function is drafting content for a marketing department, reviewing risks in a document for a corporate legal team, or drafting answers for customer support, this plugin is designed to streamline your work with a specialized focus using agent automation.
The company says the plugin allows you to “tell Claude your work preferences, what tools and data to pull from, how to handle important workflows, and what slash commands to expose to help your team get more consistent results.”
Matt Piccolella, who works on Anthropic’s product team, told TechCrunch that the plugin is built to be customizable, and the company expects enterprise users to create their own bespoke use cases. Anthropic open-sourced 11 in-house plugins as part of Friday’s release, but said custom plugins are “easy to build, edit, and share” and can be used without a lot of technical expertise.
Plugins have been available within Claude Code for some time, but the plugin extension to Cowork is simply designed to leverage the same utility and share it with different types of users. “In fact, what we’re doing with this release is bringing them to Cowork and giving them a user-friendly, UI-centric flavor so that the maximum number of people can use them,” Piccolella said.
Piccolella pointed to data analytics and sales as two departments within Anthropic that already show promise for plug-ins. “Sales were huge for our direct sales people as well, and we were able to be more connected to our customers and customer feedback and things like that and have our sales people closer to us,” he said.
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According to Anthropic, the more enterprise users use the plugin, the more Claude becomes knowledgeable about the company’s workflows and how to optimize them. Currently, plugins are stored locally on users’ machines, but Anthropic says an organization-wide sharing tool is in the works.
Cowork, which was just released about two weeks ago, is currently in research preview. It’s unclear when it will be more widely available. For the time being, the plugin will be available to all paying Claude customers, Anthropic said.
