- Anthropic is powering Claude as an AI-powered workspace with new integrations using MCP apps
- Claude now allows users to interact with tools like Slack, Asana, and Figma directly within chats.
- The update reduces tab switching by incorporating live interfaces into conversations.
Anthropic has given Claude an upgrade to incorporate many of the most common job applications into its AI assistant. Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers can now compose and preview Slack messages, edit Figma diagrams, update Asana timelines, and manipulate analytics dashboards with Claude acting as the glue between them all.
Anthropic is bringing Claude closer yet to the messiest, click-by-click reality of modern digital work. The tools appear in the chat with Claude. So a draft Slack message looks like a Slack message, and an Asana timeline can be adjusted with live images.
It all runs on an extension of the open source Model Context Protocol, called MCP Apps. Allows any participating tool to appear within Claude’s chat. The idea is to reduce all the back-and-forth switching between multiple apps and browser tabs, reducing the time spent searching for the right file or view.
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Anthropic’s goal would be for users asking Claude to operate on behalf of many other tabs. If you ask him to track a marketing timeline in Asana and assign a couple of items to the design lead, Claude could pull up the live dashboard and update it. You could then write a Slack message for approval summarizing the changes and send it with your approval. This is more efficient than simply providing a to-do list or link, as is often the case.
That fluidity is part of the point. Anthropic’s speech is about reducing friction. Until now, AI productivity workflows still relied on a kind of mental multitasking. With MCP Apps, Anthropic is clearly betting that a future can emerge where everything is handled within your AI conversations, for professionals and consumers alike.
Everything in Claude
OpenAI, Google and others are running in the same direction, each with slightly different approaches. OpenAI’s GPT-based applications can run within ChatGPT, but still run semi-independently from the chatbot, while Google’s Gemini is becoming ubiquitous within its workspace. But Claude’s new tools stand out for being integrated into the chat itself.
Naturally, giving any AI assistant direct access to platforms like Slack or Asana means that your conversations, projects, and decisions are now part of your working memory. Anthropic promises a strict sandbox and clear permissions, but as with any workplace technology, the devil will be in the defaults.
It is not yet a revolution for everyone either. The current implementation supports web and desktop versions of Claude, not mobile devices or the Claude Cowork experience at this time. And if your day doesn’t include charts, decks, timelines, or boards, you might not notice much change in the way Claude works.
For those who do, this could be the beginning of a real moment of consolidation. Instead of drowning in tabs, inboxes, and dashboards, AI brings everything together. A creative team can draft a concept, assign tasks, build the platform, and send updates from a single Claude chat.
The great idea of the assistant becoming a platform has legs. It changes the way we think about generative AI from complementary operations to core operations. Even if AI isn’t always perfect, the change in where and how work is done seems like a deeper evolution. It’s too early to call Claude’s plans a blueprint for the next standard work interface, but if the conversational completion of the work is successful, this could set Anthropic up for many more deals to come.
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