Claude is adding a more hands-on way to use connected apps: users can open supported tools alongside a conversation, let Claude make edits inside them, and watch those changes appear as they happen.
The feature is rolling out on the web and in Claude’s desktop app across all plans, as part of the updated Claude experience that combines chat and Cowork. It will become available once an account receives the update or an organization enables it.
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Rather than showing only a small preview, Claude can now open the full interface of a connected tool next to the chat. Users can hide the conversation or expand the tool to fill the screen, and can approve Claude’s actions as they would with other connector actions. For services such as Confluence and Notion, the app says, this means working in the full editor while signed into a personal account.
Users can also open a connected app without first sending Claude a prompt, then request help from that same screen. Frequently used tools can be pinned in the sidebar for quick access.
The initial rollout includes a selection of apps such as Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow. Other integrations offer different workflows: Claude can edit or redact PDFs through Adobe, revise Box files for side-by-side comparison, help prioritize HubSpot follow-ups, and create or edit Notion documents and databases. In Confluence, users can ask Claude to write or update a page and review the edits live.
Figma, Harvey, and Shopify are among the companies developing integrations. The feature is built on MCP Apps, an extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets developers bring an app’s interface into compatible AI products, not just Claude. Claude previously showed MCP Apps mainly as interactive views in chat; it now supports additional capabilities, including app tools and embedded sites that let a fuller app run within the assistant.
Support for the expanded MCP Apps capabilities is in public preview for developers. Users can connect supported services through Claude’s interactive connectors directory, then open them from a conversation or pin them for later. Administrators can continue to restrict individual connector tools using the controls already available to them.
