Claude Cowork gets task-specific plugins, to assist ten professions

Anthropic is announcing big news almost daily these days. (Picture: Anthropic)
Cowork, Anthropic’s everything agent, just got a whole lot more productive, and can support ten specific workloads for specific industries in surprising detail.

The app now has plugins for HR, design, engineering and banking purposes — and can work across Excel and PowerPoint.

That means you can run the «analysis in one and build the presentation in the other,» Anthropic says.

Anthropic also added connectors for Google Workspace, DocuSign, WordPress and Slack, to mention a few.

On top of that, there is now a private marketplace for plugins on the web, letting admins distribute new functions across an organization.

Shares of the partner companies in the launch rose 4-6% on news of the announcement, Reuters notes.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, writeups on CNBC, Reuters, and The Verge.