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Iris Coleman
Jan 30, 2026 18:47

Anthropic releases 11 open-source plugins for its Cowork AI agent, enabling customization for sales, legal, finance, and other enterprise workflows.

Anthropic has opened a plugin marketplace for Cowork, its autonomous AI agent feature, releasing 11 open-source plugins that extend Claude’s capabilities across enterprise functions from sales to legal compliance. The plugins, available immediately to all paid Claude users as a research preview, let teams customize how Claude handles workflows, connects to external tools, and executes slash commands. Think of it as teaching the AI your company’s specific way of doing things—once. What the plugins actually do Each plugin bundles together skills, data connectors, and commands for specific job functions. A sales plugin, for instance, hooks into your CRM and knowledge base while encoding your sales process. From there, Claude handles prospect research, call prep, and follow-ups without needing repeated instruction. The initial 11 plugins cover: productivity and task management, enterprise search across company tools, sales operations, financial analysis and modeling, data visualization, legal document review, marketing content and campaigns, customer support triage, product management, and biology research. All plugins are file-based and available on GitHub, making them straightforward to modify or build from scratch using Anthropic’s Plugin Create tool. Enterprise positioning This release fits a broader pattern in the AI enterprise space. Cowork, which Anthropic introduced earlier this month, runs directly on users’ machines with local file access and coordinates multi-step tasks through a virtual machine environment. The plugin system essentially lets organizations encode institutional knowledge into Claude’s behavior. The timing aligns with shifting enterprise workspace trends. According to a January 2026 market report, organizations are increasingly decentralizing operations and seeking agile tooling—exactly the kind of flexibility plugin-based AI customization offers. Current limitations Plugins currently save…

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