Your apps can now open in Claude, and Claude can work in them

Earlier this year, we launched interactive connectors (opens in new tab) to bring a small live view of tools into Claude. Starting today, where a connector supports it, you can open a tool beside your conversation or expand it to full screen, and ask Claude to work alongside you and make changes directly.

This is rolling out on the web and in the Claude desktop app on all plans, as part of the new Claude experience (opens in new tab) that brings chat and Cowork together. You’ll see these features once your account is updated with the new Claude or your organization turns it on.

What’s new:

• Claude can work in your open tools. You can ask Claude to make changes to a page, row, or file that you have open and approve its actions the same way you approve a connector’s actions. Changes appear in the tool as Claude makes them, so you can keep working right alongside it.
• The whole tool opens next to your conversation. You can work in the tool and hide the chat or go full screen when you need room. For tools like Confluence or Notion, that means you get the full editor, signed into your own account, rather than a limited preview.
• Open a connected tool directly, without having to write a Claude prompt. When you want Claude’s help, you can ask from the same screen.
• Pin the tools you use most. You can arrange them alongside your artifacts and access them with one click in your sidebar and the + menu.

Work with Claude in the tools you use

We’re starting with a small group of tools from our directory, including Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow.

Here’s what you can do with some of the tools available in Claude today:

• Adobe. Ask Claude to retouch, edit and add effects to photos; highlight, edit and redact PDFs.
• Atlassian. Open a Confluence page beside your chat, ask Claude to write and edit, and review its changes live on the page.
• Box. Open a Box file beside your chat, ask Claude to revise it, and compare the versions side by side before you keep the changes.
• HubSpot. Prioritize pipeline tasks and follow-ups, then act on them in Claude.
• Notion. Ask Claude to create a Notion doc or database. Build as you chat, or edit it yourself, without leaving Claude.

Figma, Harvey, and Shopify are also building integrations, and we encourage other developers to do the same.

For developers: built on MCP Apps

Interactive connectors run on MCP Apps, the open extension to the Model Context Protocol (opens in new tab) that lets an MCP server bring its own interface into AI applications. An MCP App you build isn’t limited to Claude and can run in any AI application that supports the extension (opens in new tab).

Until now, MCP Apps in Claude have mainly appeared as interactive views in the conversation. Claude now supports more of the extension, such as app tools, along with embedded sites, so a developer’s full app can run inside Claude.

Support for these capabilities is in public preview for developers. Developers can start building with them today. Read our docs (opens in new tab) to start building.

Getting started

You can connect the tools we mention above from the directory (opens in new tab), then open any tool from your chat or pin it to your sidebar.

For admins: If your organization already allows all of a connector’s tools, its new features appear as they roll out. Admins can restrict a connector’s tools the same way they do today.