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20 features · 5 capability groups

Claude 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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