Interactive connectors used to show a small live view of a tool inside the conversation. Since yesterday, where a connector supports it, the whole tool opens — beside the chat or in full screen. And Claude is allowed to work in it.
Claude works in the tool you have open
Ask Claude to change a page, a row, or a file you have open, and you approve that the same way you approve any other connector action. The changes show up in the tool as Claude makes them, and you keep working next to it.
The difference from the old preview is concrete. With Confluence or Notion you get the complete editor, signed into your own account. You can also open a connected tool directly without writing a prompt first, and pin the tools you use most beside your artifacts in the sidebar.
Eight tools at launch, five with named capabilities
Anthropic is starting with a small group from its own directory: Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow. For five more, the announcement spells out what works:
- Adobe — retouch, edit, and add effects to photos; highlight, edit, and redact PDFs
- Atlassian — open a Confluence page beside your chat, have Claude write and edit, review its changes live on the page
- Box — open a file, have Claude revise it, compare the versions side by side before you keep anything
- HubSpot — prioritise pipeline tasks and follow-ups, then act on them inside Claude
- Notion — create a doc or a database, build as you chat or edit it yourself
Figma, Harvey, and Shopify are building integrations now.
MCP Apps sits underneath
Technically, interactive connectors run on MCP Apps, the open extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets an MCP server bring its own interface into an AI application. Until now, MCP Apps in Claude mostly appeared as interactive views inside the conversation. Claude now supports more of the extension — app tools and embedded sites — so a developer’s full app runs inside Claude. For developers this is public preview, and an MCP App you build is not limited to Claude: it runs in any AI application that supports the extension.
Rollout and permissions
This is going out on the web and in the Claude desktop app, on all plans, as part of the new experience that brings chat and Cowork together. You see it once your account is updated or your organisation turns it on. If you are an admin who already allows all of a connector’s tools, the new features appear as they roll out, and you restrict them the way you do today.
Connectors are becoming the interface
A connector used to be a pipe: Claude pulls data and hands something back. Now it is a window two parties work in at once. For a vendor like Notion or Atlassian that means their application runs inside Claude rather than next to it, and the traffic to it runs through Claude. Anthropic announcing this on the same day as its own spreadsheet and its own whiteboard is not a coincidence.