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20 features · 5 capability groupsClaude feature map
Everything Claude can do, organized by capability group. Use this to understand the full surface area — whether you're evaluating Claude for the first time, planning what to roll out next, or just trying to find the right term.
Core interface
The building blocks of how Claude is organized and remembers context
Projects
Shared workspaces that give a team a consistent Claude — same system prompt, same knowledge, same tone — across every conversation.
Memory
Claude can remember facts about you or your organization across sessions — so it builds on context instead of starting from scratch every time.
Artifacts
Standalone outputs — documents, code, charts — that Claude produces and you can directly use, edit, or download without copying from the chat.
System Prompt
The instructions that shape every response before the user says anything. The highest-leverage thing an operator controls.
Skills & connections
How Claude gets access to tools, data, and external services
Skills
Pre-built capabilities you can enable per Project — web search, image generation, code execution, and more. Each Skill changes what Claude can do.
Connectors
Integrations that give Claude read access to your data sources — Google Drive, Notion, Confluence, and others — without manual copy-paste.
MCP
Model Context Protocol — the open standard that lets Claude connect to any tool or data source, not just the ones Anthropic has built.
Tool Use
Claude's ability to call external functions and APIs — so it can take actions, not just produce text. The foundation of everything agentic.
Automation & agents
Features that let Claude take multi-step actions with less human in the loop
Cowork
Claude as an active participant in shared workspaces — able to contribute to projects alongside human team members, not just answer questions.
Dispatch
Route tasks to Claude automatically based on triggers or schedules — so work happens without someone manually kicking it off each time.
Managed Agents
Claude instances configured to run autonomously within defined boundaries — handling entire workflows end-to-end with minimal oversight.
Computer Use
Claude can control a computer — clicking, typing, navigating interfaces — to complete tasks in applications that don't have APIs.
Research & intelligence
Features for working with complex information and reasoning through hard problems
Deep Research
Claude conducts multi-step research across the web and your documents, synthesizing findings into structured reports — not just a single answer.
Extended Thinking
Claude works through complex problems step by step before answering — trading speed for depth on tasks that require careful reasoning.
RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation — Claude answers questions using your documents as its source material, grounding responses in your actual data.
Prompt Caching
Reuse expensive context across multiple calls — so Claude doesn't re-read a 100-page document every time. Significant speed and cost savings at scale.
Admin & scale
What operators control — plans, access, governance, and developer tooling
Claude Plans
Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise — each tier unlocks different capabilities, context limits, and admin controls. The plan determines what your org can do.
Claude Code
An agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal — writes, edits, runs, and debugs code autonomously within a codebase. Built for developers.
Claude Agent SDK
The developer SDK for building custom agents on top of Claude — with structured tool use, multi-turn conversation management, and orchestration primitives.
Tokens
The unit Claude charges by. Understanding token usage — what consumes them, where waste happens — is the key to keeping costs predictable at org scale.
For admins
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The admin learning path walks you through evaluation, deployment, and ongoing management — in the right order.