- Claude can now connect to apps such as performance, canva and stripe
- AI can understand and help with tasks using your actual working data
- Claude’s safe access reduces the need to constantly explain context to AI
Anthropic has upgraded Claude with a large new set of tools that let the AI assistant integrate directly with several popular software tools including performance, Canva, Stripe, Figma, Socket and Prisma. The new Claude Tool Directory means you don’t have to explain what you want to clay every time you want to use these tools; Claude can now look at the same information as you to help.
Until now, most AI interactions have demanded to copy and insert any detail from your project management tool, explain what is important, clarify what each task means, and double control that AI understood it. Now you can just ask it to do the task and Claude draws the information directly from the relevant tool to dealing with things.
It may not seem groundbreaking at first glance, but that context gap is where things usually fall apart when asking AI chatbots to help you. For example, if you are working on a product launch in the performance and have a list of things to do, you should usually need to enter or upload all information to Claude. Once you have connected the performance to Claude, AI can read your project documents directly and start putting together timelines and presentation materials that fit the product because it sees what you see.
Or imagine a small business owner using Stripe to manage payments that want a summary of which customers are paid last week and who still owe you for your services. Claude can now pull this data directly from stripe with your permission. And with Canva, an empty social media mail template can now be filled with a design and copy from Claude based on your brief. You describe what you need in plain language and Claude will do something useful.
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These integrations are driven by something called the model context protocol or MCP. This basically means that Claude can understand and act on the tools you use, without needing a whole tutorial. You just connect an app once and Claude becomes secure, limited access to the relevant information inside it. It does not read your entire inbox or download your banking history what is needed to help you with the current task.
You can go to Claude’s tool catalog and connect the apps you are already using. If you are on a paid claude plan, you will have access to external app connections such as stripe and performance. Desktop integrations, such as Figma and Socket, are available via the Claude Desktop app.
Other AI tools try something similar. Google’s Gemini pops up in docs and gmail. Microsoft’s copilot is baked in Word and Excel. But Anthropic’s Take is more about linking what you are already doing with AI, as opposed to baking AI into these apps directly.
Of course, this does not do claude autonomous. It cannot pay your bills or run your job to the fullest. And while Anthropic says it’s designed everything with privacy and security in mind, some are probably vigilant, although you can choose what Claude can access. But for most ordinary users, this update represents something potentially very useful to stay on top of things. If, like anthropic claims, it will save time and mean that you do not have to do about a lot of boring paperwork, it is likely to be a very popular feature.
