Anthropic embeds Slack, Figma and Asana inside Claude, turning AI chat into a workplace command center

Anthropic announced Monday that users can now open and interact with popular business applications directly inside Claude, the company's AI assistant—a significant expansion that transforms the chatbot from a conversational tool into an integrated workspace where employees can build project timelines, draft Slack messages, create presentations, and visualize data without switching browser tabs.

The rollout, which goes live today, includes integrations with Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, Clay, Figma, Hex, Monday.com, and Slack. Salesforce integration is coming soon. The feature marks a new chapter in Anthropic's aggressive push to dominate enterprise AI, arriving just days after the company's CEO made headlines at Davos with bold predictions about AI replacing white-collar workers.

"MCP Apps are an extension to the core MCP protocol and are part of the open source MCP ecosystem," Sean Strong, Anthropic's product manager for MCP Apps, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. "Within ...