Anthropic is advancing Cowork deeper into enterprise workflows by launching an updated plugins system for Claude Enterprise. This system allows admins to build private, organization-specific plugin marketplaces and distribute internal tools across teams. The aim is to transform Claude into role-specific “agents” for departments such as finance, HR, design, engineering, legal, and operations, while maintaining tighter administrative control over the tools and data accessible to each team.
Introducing Cowork and plugin updates that help enterprises customize Claude for better collaboration with every team. pic.twitter.com/pRwJqPBRQj
— Claude (@claudeai) February 24, 2026
On the administrative side, plugin creation and management are being streamlined into a single “Customize” area. This area combines plugins, skills, and connectors (via MCP) under one menu. Admins can either start from templates or build from scratch, with Claude guiding the setup through structured questions that tailor commands, skills, and connected data sources. Connector management is also being revamped with a new directory and expanded controls, including:
- Org-level marketplaces
- Per-user provisioning
- Auto-install
- The option to use private GitHub repos as plugin sources (private beta)
Anthropic is also incorporating OpenTelemetry support, enabling admins to track usage, cost, and tool activity across teams.
The connector catalog is being expanded to include common enterprise systems such as Google Workspace (Calendar, Drive, Gmail), DocuSign, Apollo, Clay, Outreach, Similarweb, LegalZoom, FactSet, MSCI, WordPress, and Harvey. The company is also emphasizing partner-built plugins from vendors like Slack (Salesforce), LSEG, S&P Global, and Common Room, along with field-specific templates for HR, design, engineering, operations, brand voice, and various finance workflows, including investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth management.
A significant aspect of this initiative is cross-app execution. Claude can now maintain context between Excel and PowerPoint to complete multi-step projects from start to finish, such as running analysis in a spreadsheet and generating a presentation deck without losing the thread. Anthropic presents this as a research preview available on paid plans on Mac and Windows through the Excel and PowerPoint add-ins. Specifically in finance, Anthropic is releasing five finance plugins and adding MCP connectors for FactSet and MSCI, alongside partner plugins that integrate institutional platforms like Capital IQ Pro and LSEG data into Claude’s working context (subject to provider-side entitlements).
Industry reactions to the announcement emphasize “agentic” adoption in regulated functions. PwC describes the move as bringing enterprise-grade agents into the office of the CFO, while Blank Metal’s COO suggests the approach is more akin to practical digital labor than previous “AI agent” hype. Anthropic’s demo scenario uses a fictional company and highlights purpose-built agents like Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal, developed with the Claude Agent SDK, to demonstrate how specialized systems can coexist with Cowork plugins within an enterprise stack.
This initiative aligns with Anthropic’s broader Claude Enterprise packaging, which includes Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork with enterprise controls such as SSO and SCIM provisioning, audit logs, a compliance API, configurable retention policies, and usage analytics. The company assures that Claude Enterprise content is not used for training by default.
