Anthropic Adds Role-Based Plugins to Cowork for Specialized AI Work
Anthropic has rolled out plugin support for Cowork, enabling users to tailor the Claude AI assistant to specific professional roles. Plugins allow skills, data integrations, commands, and sub-agents to be packaged together, effectively turning Claude into a domain specialist for sales, legal, finance, and other fields.
For instance, a sales-focused plugin can link Claude to a CRM and internal knowledge base, offering ready-made commands for lead research or meeting follow-ups.
Cowork interface with the plugin menu. | Image: Anthropic
Alongside the launch, Anthropic released 11 in-house plugins as open source, spanning productivity, data analysis, marketing, and customer support. Each plugin is built from simple, file-based components, which the company says lowers the barrier to creating, modifying, and sharing custom setups. The plugins are accessible directly through Cowork or via GitHub.
Plugin management lets teams organize skills, commands, agents, and connectors by department, such as sales or marketing. | Image: Anthropic
The plugin system is now available as a research preview for all paid Claude users. At this stage, plugins are stored locally, while enterprise-wide administration tools are planned for later releases. Cowork itself is Anthropic’s desktop environment for agent-driven knowledge work, though the company acknowledges that the platform still faces unresolved cybersecurity challenges.
Javier Morales es investigador y analista senior en inteligencia artificial con base en España. Su trabajo se centra en el estudio de modelos de IA a gran escala, su integración en infraestructuras empresariales y las implicaciones económicas y sociales de su adopción. Ha analizado en profundidad las estrategias de las principales compañías tecnológicas, así como el impacto de la inteligencia artificial en productividad, gobernanza digital y comportamiento de los usuarios. Sus publicaciones se caracterizan por un enfoque analítico, basado en datos y orientado a la evaluación crítica de tecnologías emergentes.
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