Claude lets you open tools like Asana or Canva beside the chat and ask for changes directly in them
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Asana, Canva or Dropbox can now open in full inside Claude, in a panel next to the conversation or full screen. Claude edits whatever the user has open there, and every action needs their approval, as with other connectors. Anthropic is extending it to every plan in the browser and the desktop app, while for developers it remains in public preview.
On Tuesday, November 10, Anthropic announced that some apps can now be opened in full inside Claude, next to the conversation, and that the assistant can work in them. Until now, the interactive connectors the company launched this year only showed a small live view of each tool inside the chat.
With the change, where the connector allows it, the tool opens beside the chat or full screen, and users can ask Claude to edit the page, row or file they have open. Its actions are approved just like those of any other connector, and the edits show up in the tool as Claude makes them. In Notion or Confluence, the full editor opens under the user's own account instead of a cut-down preview. A tool can also be opened without typing any request, and the most used ones can be pinned to the sidebar.
The first batch includes Canva, Asana, Dropbox, Carta, Webflow, Vercel, Smartsheet and monday.com, and Anthropic also describes uses with Adobe, Box, HubSpot and Notion. Figma, Harvey and Shopify are preparing their own integrations.
The rollout covers the web and the desktop app on all plans, within the new Claude experience, which merges chat and Cowork, and it shows up once the account is updated or the organization switches it on. Where an organization already permits every tool in a connector, the new features show up for it as they are released; admins can still restrict them as before. For developers, it is built on MCP Apps, an open extension of the Model Context Protocol, and these capabilities are in public preview.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
With the small view, Claude showed the tool, but the real work stayed outside the chat. Now it edits the open page or file while the person watches and approves each step, which brings it closer to a workspace and not just a chat window. The fact that everything rests on an open extension of MCP also counts: an integration built for Claude can work in other compatible AI applications, which makes it easier for more to appear. Before using it with sensitive data, teams would do well to check which tools of each connector they have allowed, because the new features arrive on their own wherever everything was already authorized.
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