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.
In practice
You connect your Google Drive to Claude.ai. Now instead of copying and pasting documents into the chat, you can say "summarize the Q3 board deck in my Drive" and Claude reads it directly. A connector is the integration that gives Claude access to your external tools without manual copy-paste.
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Where Connectors shows up
16 articlesConnectors 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.
You've heard people talk about using Claude and Notion together. Here's exactly what that looks like — what to set up, which workflows actually save time, and what doesn't work.
Claude works natively inside Slack through a built-in integration. Here's what it actually does, how to set it up properly, and whether it's worth using for your team.
Airtable stores your structured data. Claude helps you make sense of it, generate content from it, and build workflows around it. Here's exactly what that looks like in practice.
Asana manages your work. Claude helps you think through it, write the briefs and updates your tasks need, and surface what actually matters. Here's how to make that work.
Linear is where engineering teams track issues and ship work. Claude helps you write better issues, triage faster, and generate the surrounding documentation that always falls behind. Here's the practical guide.
Figma is where design lives. Claude helps with everything around the design — copy, specs, handoff notes, design feedback write-ups, and the back-and-forth between design and engineering. Here's what actually works.
Webflow lets you build websites without writing code. Claude helps with the content that fills them — copy, SEO text, blog posts, CMS entries, and the writing that takes as long as the design. Here's how to use them together.
Jira tracks your engineering work. Claude helps you write better issues, generate release notes, summarize sprint status for stakeholders, and turn customer language into engineer-readable tickets. Here's the practical guide.
Intercom handles your customer conversations. Claude helps write better responses, triage incoming volume, build knowledge base content from resolved tickets, and reduce time-to-response without burning out your support team. Here's how.
The Salesforce connector gives Claude read access to your CRM. The workflows that get real use — account research, pipeline summaries, pre-call prep — are ones where the value is in combining what Salesforce knows with what Claude can reason about.
Confluence pages rot the moment the engineer who wrote them moves on to the next thing. Claude doesn't prevent that — but it makes the writing and updating fast enough that it might actually happen.
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.
On April 23, 2026 Anthropic shipped 15 consumer connectors that have nothing to do with work — Spotify, Uber, Booking.com, Audible, Resy, Instacart, and others. They're available on every plan, including Pro. Here's what's in the set, how it works, and what it changes for someone who already uses Claude for work.
On April 28, 2026 Anthropic announced Claude for Creative Work — a set of nine connectors that let Claude work alongside professional creative software, plus partnerships with three art schools. Here's what shipped, what each connector enables, and what it changes for marketing, agency, and product teams that aren't full-time designers.
On May 7, 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude as add-ins inside Excel, PowerPoint, and Word at general availability, with Outlook in public beta. The headline is cross-app context — assumptions in Excel now propagate into linked PowerPoint slides and Word memos, and an email in Outlook can open straight into a draft in Word.