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What do you want to do with Claude?

Connect my apps and data Connectors Teach Claude to do tasks my way Skills Give Claude a goal and check back Cowork Put Claude to work in my Slack Claude Tag Analyze literature and data Claude Science Draft decks, emails, and docs Claude for M365

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ConnectorsGive Claude access to your tools and data in Google Drive, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft 365, or any MCP server.Browse connectors SkillsTeach Claude how to do something your way with reusable instructions, scripts, and resources it loads when relevant.Learn about skills PluginsBundle skills, connectors, and more into shareable packages for Cowork and Claude Code.Explore plugins CoworkHand Claude a goal on your desktop and come back to completed work, from polished documents to organized files and synthesized research.Get Cowork Claude TagAdd Claude to Slack channels as a teammate your whole team can see, steer, and hand work to.Set up Claude Tag Claude ScienceRun literature reviews, data analyses, and computational workflows in a desktop research workbench.Set up Claude Science Claude for M365Use Claude inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with answers based on your organization’s documents.Set up Claude for M365 Claude on third-party platformsGet the full Claude Desktop experience, including Cowork, with model inference through Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, or a gateway you operate.Deploy Claude Desktop Claude for GovernmentSet up and manage Claude for your agency, with tenant, organization, seat, and credit administration.Manage Claude for Government

What’s new: the Cowork changelog, the Claude Science changelog, and the Claude Desktop configuration changelog.

Which product do you need?

Start from what you’re trying to do:

“I want Claude to see my files, Slack messages, calendar, or codebase”Connectorsaccess to your tools and data “I want Claude to read my Outlook mail and OneDrive files”Microsoft 365 connectoryour Microsoft 365 data in chat, not the Office apps “I want to turn a document into a slide deck”Claude for M365drafting decks, docs, and email inside the Office apps “I want Claude to do this task the way my team does it”Skillsinstructions and scripts for a task “I want to share a ready-made setup with my whole team”Pluginsbundled skills and connectors for Cowork and Claude Code “I want my whole channel to see and steer Claude’s work”Claude TagClaude in your team’s Slack “I want Claude to run through my own cloud provider”Claude on third-party platformsClaude Desktop through your cloud provider “I want to build or publish a connector”MCPbuild on the open protocol and submit to the directory “I’m using Claude Code in my terminal”Claude CodeClaude in your terminal and IDE

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All plans have access to the Connectors Directory. Free plans can also add one custom connector. Compare Claude plans and pricing (opens in a new tab).

Claude for Government access is set up by your agency’s administrators, so you don’t need to create an account. See the Claude for Government guide.

Building with Claude

Claude PlatformManage your API access, usage, and billing.Claude API documentationAPI reference, model guides, and prompt engineering.Claude CodeCode with Claude as an agentic tool in your terminal and IDE.Anthropic AcademyGuided courses and certifications, from everyday Claude use to building with the API.

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