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Claude just gained a little more autonomy.
Anthropic, the AI start-up behind Claude, announced Monday that the system can now directly interact with and pull information from a directory of third-party apps and websites, including Stripe, Figma, Prisma, Canva, Asana, and others. The idea is to save users time that would ordinarily be spent transferring information from Claude's outputs into one of those external services, and vice versa.
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"Now Claude can have access to the same tools, data, and context that you do -- transforming it from a helpful assistant into an informed AI collaborator that gives you more relevant responses and can work with you directly in your tools," Anthropic wrote in a press release published Monday.
How does it work?
The new directory is populated by "connectors," or links to various websites and desktop extensions. Think of them as digital gateways through which Claude can access your data and weave it into new assets.
For example, you can now prompt the chatbot to pull your company's revenue data from Stripe and organize it into an easily digestible quarterly report, rather than having to transfer the data yourself into an AI-generated template. Or if you're a project manager and need to update your team's Asana workflow following a team meeting, you can prompt Claude to reference and pull all relevant information from an Apple Notes doc. Similarly, product developers can ask Claude to pull notes from Linear to track a bug-fixing process, and graphic designers can easily prompt Claude to create designs in Canva.
"Claude is quickly becoming an essential creative partner for millions of people, and this integration brings Canva's full design capabilities directly into that experience," Anwar Haneef, head of ecosystem at Canva, said in a statement. "Instead of uploading or manually transferring ideas, users can now generate, summarize, review, and publish Canva designs, all within a Claude chat."
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