Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature within Cowork to make it even more powerful for enterprise users. Behold, the plug-in. The idea behind plug-ins is simple: They are designed to automate specialized tasks within a companys various departments. Whether that function is drafting content for the marketing department, reviewing risks in documents for a firms legal team, or drafting responses for customer support, the plug-in is designed to use agentic automation to streamline work with a specialized focus. The company says you can use plug-ins to tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes. Matt Piccolella, who works on the product team at Anthropic, told TechCrunch that plug-ins are built to be customized and that the company expects enterprise users to create their very own bespoke use cases for them. Anthropic open sourced 11 of its in-house plug-ins as part of the release on Friday, but noted that custom plug-ins are easy to build, edit, and share and can be utilized without much technical expertise. Plug-ins have already been available within Claude Code for some time, and their expansion into Cowork is merely designed
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