From drafting Slack messages to updating project timelines on Asana, Claude now lets you work inside connected apps without ever leaving the chatbot. Here’s how it works.
The protocol that keeps on giving
In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its open-source project to bridge AI models, external tools, and data sources. In a nutshell, this gave AI chatbots and agents the tools required to interact with third-party platforms as if they were humans.
Since then, MCP has become the industry’s standard for agentic-powered, AI-based productivity, with countless companies, platforms, and developers building and deploying MCP servers to connect tools and data sources.
That includes Apple, which began working on MCP support across its operating systems last year, although there has been little movement on that front as of late.
Be it as it may, late last year, Anthopic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, and its market-wide adoption is only expected to grow.
Today, Anthropic announced that nine productivity tools and platforms are now available as interactive apps inside Claude thanks to MCP, including Asana, Canva, Figma, and Slack.
Here’s Anthropic’s demo of the new features:
And here’s Anthropic on what Claude users can do with each one:
Amplitude – Build analytics charts, then explore trends and adjust parameters interactively to uncover hidden insights.
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