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Cowork plugins

Anthropic · 30 January 2026

Cowork plugins bundle skills, connectors, slash commands and sub-agents; Anthropic open-sources 11 starter plugins across sales, finance, legal and biology.

A packaging layer on top of Agent Skills and MCP so teams can encode how they work and which data to use. Research preview for all paid users on 2026-01-30; plugins saved locally at first, with org-wide sharing promised. A plugin marketplace with admin controls followed 2026-02-24.

Date
Friday, 30 January 2026
Lab
Anthropic
Kind
feature
Access
research preview

A Claude Marketplace consolidating plugins, connectors and agents launched 2026-09-23.

Sources

  1. claude.com/blog/cowork-plugins
  2. support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes

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