Use plugins in Claude

Plugins customize how Claude works for your role, team, and company. Each plugin bundles skills, connectors, and sub-agents into a single package, so you get a ready-to-go setup from your first conversation instead of configuring each piece yourself.

You can install and use plugins in chat on the web, the Chat tab in Claude Desktop, and Claude Cowork. Plugins enabled for your Claude account also load in Claude Code in your terminal when you sign in with the same account. The skills bundled in a plugin work in all of these places. Hooks and sub-agents run in Cowork and Claude Code, so they appear grayed out in chat.

Plugins can also bundle connectors, so the right services are set up for a workflow without you connecting each one. Claude connects to services like Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, DocuSign, and many more.

Plugins you've installed, and plugins your organization has distributed to you, sync to Claude Code when you sign in with your Claude account. This needs Claude Code v2.1.273 or later.

To stop plugins from syncing, set syncClaudeAiPlugins to false in your Claude Code settings. Learn more about synced plugins in the Claude Code docs.

Claude includes a growing library of plugins for common knowledge work—including sales, finance, legal, marketing, HR, engineering, design, operations, data analysis, and more. Each one comes pre-configured with the skills and connectors relevant to that function. Some plugins, like Salesforce in Claude, are built by partners and bundle a partner's own connectors and skills.

We also provide Plugin Create, a plugin that helps you build custom plugins from scratch.

For the full collection of Anthropic-built plugins, visit GitHub.

In Cowork, open the "Cowork" tab first, then open Customize.

You can also upload a custom plugin file if you built one yourself. On Team and Enterprise plans, a colleague can share a plugin with you directly instead of sending you the file. See Use a plugin shared with you below. On Claude Desktop and in Cowork, plugins you add yourself are saved locally to your computer.

If you're on the Enterprise plan and your organization has skill scanning turned on, plugins are checked for malicious content when they're installed or updated. A plugin with malicious content is blocked, and one that may carry risk shows a caution banner. Learn more about skill and plugin scanning.

Each plugin you install adds skills you can use while working with Claude. Type "/" or click the "+" button to see the available skills from your installed plugins, in chat and in Cowork. Click any skill to see its details.

In Cowork, you can tailor an installed plugin to better fit your workflow:

Want to create something from scratch? The "Plugin Create" plugin walks you through the process, and you can start from any Anthropic-built template and modify it. For details on plugin structure and formatting, see the Plugins reference in our Claude Code docs.

Owners and Primary Owners of Team and Enterprise organizations can turn on skill and plugin sharing for members of the organization. Plugin sharing uses the same settings and toggles as skill sharing.

To enable plugin sharing:

To let users publish plugins to the organization library, use the Publishing setting on the same "Policy" tab. Learn more about letting users publish skills and plugins to your organization.

After an Owner or Primary Owner turns on plugin sharing, you can share a plugin you uploaded or created in Customize with specific colleagues (Team and Enterprise plans) or with a group (Enterprise plans). The people you share with get your current version, and you can stop sharing at any time. Plugins you installed from a marketplace, and plugins saved locally in Claude Desktop or Cowork, can't be shared.

To share a plugin:

The plugin appears in each recipient's Shared with you section, labeled with your name, and stays off until they turn it on. Shared plugins are view-only. Recipients can enable and use the plugin, but they can't edit the contents. If you update the plugin later, recipients automatically get the updated version at next use. You can remove someone's access at any time, and access is removed automatically if they leave the organization.

To copy a link to a shared plugin, click "Copy link" in the Share dialog. The link opens the plugin for people you've already shared it with; anyone else sees a message that it isn't available.

The plugin is removed from their list right away. Deleting a plugin removes it for everyone you shared it with, and anything shared with a member is removed automatically when they leave your organization.

On Team and Enterprise plans, you can submit a plugin you uploaded or created in Customize to your organization's library, so anyone in your organization can install it. Sharing gives a plugin to specific people or groups, and you keep control of it. Publishing hands it to your organization.

To publish a plugin:

If your organization requires review, an owner (or someone with permission to review requests) checks the plugin before it's published. Your choice of how it's offered is a proposal. The reviewer sees it preselected and can change it, and they also choose who gets the plugin: everyone or specific groups. You can keep using and editing your copy while you wait, and you can withdraw the submission. The plugin shows its status: pending, changes requested (with the reviewer's note), or published. You'll get an email when it's approved. If your organization doesn't require review, the plugin is published to the library and available to everyone in your organization to install. If your organization has security scanning turned on, the plugin isn't listed for others until it passes the scan, which usually takes a few minutes.

Once published, the plugin is managed by your organization. To update it, publish again. The new version goes through the same review, and everyone who uses the plugin stays on the approved version until the update is approved.

When a colleague shares a plugin with you, it appears in the Shared with you section of the Plugins tab in Customize. It's off until you turn it on. Once it's on, its skills work the same way as any other installed plugin.

You can't edit a plugin that's been shared with you. If you want to change how it works, ask the person who built it, or build your own version. If they stop sharing the plugin or delete it, it's removed from your list automatically.

Anthropic provides built-in marketplaces of plugins, including a Knowledge Work marketplace that's added by default. You can add other Anthropic-built marketplaces, like Financial Services or Legal, or add one from a GitHub repository.

To add a marketplace:

To remove a marketplace, including the default Knowledge Work marketplace:

If you're on a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner can distribute plugins across your organization through plugin marketplaces, or approve plugins that users publish to the organization library These are different from plugins a colleague shares with you, which show up under Shared with you. Organization-managed plugins work the same as any other plugin, with a couple of differences:

On Enterprise plans, your admin may customize which plugins are available to your group. This means the plugins you see in the catalog may differ from what colleagues in other groups see. Plugins assigned to your group appear in chat, Cowork, and Claude Code.

For guidance on setting up and managing plugins organization-wide, see Manage plugins for your organization.