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Official Anthropic open source plugins for Claude Cowork, directly applicable to knowledge work and AI tooling.

2026-05-27 Open Source github.com
Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork - anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Summary

Anthropic open-sourced 11 plugins for Claude Cowork and Code, each bundling domain expertise (skills), tool connectors (Slack, Notion, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.), and slash commands for roles from sales to bio-research. The open-source plugin structure (.claude-plugin/, .mcp.json) lets teams customize workflows and install via claude plugin marketplace, enabling Claude to act as a specialist for company-specific tools and processes.

Key Takeaways
  • Clone the knowledge-work-plugins repo, review the sales or data plugin as a baseline, and adapt the skills and connectors to your company's tools to accelerate agent adoption.
Why it matters

This provides a modular, open-source framework to embed LLM agents into existing enterprise toolchains, allowing platform engineers to quickly customize Claude for their org's specific workflows without building custom agent integrations from scratch.

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anthropics