Connectors
Also: Claude Connectors, Claude.ai connector
Connectors link Claude.ai to external services — Google Drive, Dropbox, Jira, GitHub, Notion, and others. Once you connect a service, Claude can read documents from it, search it, or take actions within it during your conversation. It's how you give Claude access to your actual work, not just what you paste in.
Articles
Skills and Connectors: how to make Claude actually useful at work
By default, Claude only knows what you tell it in the conversation. Skills and Connectors change that — here's what they do and which ones are worth turning on.
Connectors: which to enable, which to disable, and why it matters
Connectors give Claude access to your tools. But having all of them on all the time costs tokens and introduces noise. Here is how to manage them.