While its ongoing spat with the U.S. military made bigger headlines recently, Anthropic delivered what might have been a more consequential announcement at a virtual event that had been planned as a live meeting in New York City but was thwarted by last week’s East Coast blizzard.
Kate Jensen, head of Americas for the AI pioneer, unveiled a suite of plugins for Claude Cowork she said will automate work for a wide range of knowledge workers. Cowork, launched in January, is an AI agent Anthropic positioned as a version of Claude that will do for non-developers what Claude Code has done for coders.
“In 2025 Claude transformed how developers work, and in 2026 it will do the same for knowledge work,” Jensen said. “The magic behind Claude Code is simple. When you can delegate hard challenges, you can focus on the work that actually matters. Cowork brings that same power to knowledge workers.”
The new suite of plugins are prebuilt modules specifically designed for business users in a variety of disciplines. Tasks typically associated with different business units including sales, marketing, legal, finance, human resources, customer support and more.
Enterprise administrators can now build private plugin marketplaces tailored to their organizations, connecting to private GitHub repositories as plugin sources and controlling which plugins employees can access, the company said.
The company noted that plugins have been available within Claude Code for some time, but that expanding them into Cowork will enable a significantly larger number of people to use them.