On 10 November Anthropic announced new workspaces in Claude where a team and Claude work on the same task together. The company also expanded interactive connectors, which let users work with external tools in Claude.

Spreadsheets, whiteboards and data views

In Claude Sheets, a team and Claude build spreadsheets together. Claude adds tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus to a sheet, Japan’s ITmedia AI+ reported. Claude’s changes are highlighted. The features are basic for now and are to be expanded. Users who need Excel’s full feature set can export a sheet as an .xlsx or CSV file.

Claude Whiteboards is a digital whiteboard. A team gathers ideas on it, for example during a meeting, and then asks Claude to summarise the results.

Claude Data, previously called Dashboards, pulls data from sources such as Snowflake and Salesforce. Claude turns the data into dashboards, data stories or short narrated videos. Data can use metric definitions certified by the data team, but this feature is still in beta.

A partner’s tool opens beside the conversation

Until now, interactive connectors showed a small view of an external tool within the conversation. Where a connector supports the new approach, the full tool now opens beside the conversation or in full screen. In Confluence and Notion, for example, users get the complete editor under their own login.

Users can ask Claude to change a page, row or file they have open. They approve Claude’s actions in the same way as with other connectors. Changes appear in the tool as Claude makes them. Administrators can limit what a connector may do: Claude can, for example, read Slack but not send messages.

Launch partners include Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion. The Decoder also names Salesforce as an embedded-app partner, but Anthropic’s announcement lists Salesforce as a beta plugin.

The connectors are built on the MCP Apps extension. MCP is an open protocol for connecting AI applications to other tools. The extension lets an MCP server bring its own user interface. Claude now also supports the extension’s app tools and embedded sites, so a developer’s full app can run inside Claude. The same app also works in other AI applications that support the extension, Anthropic said. Support is available to developers as a public preview.

Who gets the features and when

ITmedia reported that Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta and Data is generally available. All three are coming to every paid plan on the web, the desktop app and mobile. On the Team plan they are on by default. On the Enterprise plan, Sheets and Whiteboards are off by default, and Data will be enabled on 19 November. Administrators can change the settings.

The expanded connectors are coming to all plans on the web and the desktop app. They are part of the redesigned Claude, which combines chat and Cowork. They appear once an account is updated or an organisation adopts the redesign.

Anthropic noted that not everyone will see the updates straight away. Claude Meetings is also coming soon, the company said. It will join calls, take notes and update the team’s documents during the call.