Anthropic has announced that users will now be able to directly interact with certain tools within Claude.
Claude already had the ability to connect to tools and take action on a user’s behalf in those tools, so what’s new today is the ability for the user to actually go in and interact with those tools directly in the Claude window.
The tools and capabilities that are now supported include:
- Amplitude: Build analytics charts, explore trends, and adjust parameters
- Asana: Create projects, tasks, and timelines from chats
- Box: Search for files, preview documents inline, and extract insights and ask questions about content
- Canva: Create presentation outlines and customize branding and designs
- Clay: Research companies, find contact info, get information like company size and funding, and draft personalized outreach
- Figma: Turn text and images into flow charts, Gantt charts, and other visual diagrams
- Hex: Ask data questions and get answers containing interactive charts, tables, and citations
- monday.com: Manage work, run projects, update boards, assign tasks, and visualize progress
- Slack: Search and retrieve conversations and generate and format message drafts
The company also said that it plans to add support soon for Salesforce to allow teams to add context from Agentforce 360 to Claude.
According to Anthropic, this new functionality is built upon the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and in addition to today’s announcement, the company announced MCP Apps, a new extension that allows MCP servers to deliver an interactive interface within any AI product.
“We open sourced MCP to give the ecosystem a universal way to connect tools to AI. Now we’re extending MCP further so developers can build interactive UI on top of it, wherever their users are,” Anthropic wrote in a post.
