Using connectors in your work

Once you’ve connected your tools, Claude considers them when responding to your requests.

Here are some practical ways to use connected tools:

Project management (Asana, Linear, Jira)

• “What are my highest priority tasks due this week?”
• “Create a new task for reviewing the Q4 budget proposal”
• “Summarize the status of our product launch project”

Communication (Slack, Gmail)

• “Find the email thread where we discussed the vendor contract”
• “Draft a reply to the latest message in the #marketing channel”
• “What did the team decide about the timeline in yesterday’s discussion?”

Documentation (Notion, Google Drive, Confluence)

• “Search our documentation for our brand voice guidelines”
• “Summarize the meeting notes from last week’s product review”
• “What does our style guide say about using contractions?”

Business tools (Stripe, PayPal, Salesforce)

• “Show me revenue trends for the past quarter”
• “What’s the status of the Acme Corp opportunity?”
• “List recent transactions over $1,000”

Security and permissions

When you connect Claude to external services, you’re granting it access to read—and sometimes modify—data within those services. Here are some important considerations:

• Scoped access: Permissions are specific to what the connector needs and you can toggle individual permissions on and off within each application’s menu.
• Claude sees what you see: Claude can only access data you have access to. Connecting your work email doesn’t give Claude access to your CEO’s inbox—only your own.
• Revocable at any time: You can disconnect a service through Claude’s settings or through the third-party service’s security settings. Just as with Skills, you can also find or build custom connectors. Exercise the same caution — only install connectors from trusted sources.

Lesson reflection

Before moving on, consider:

• Which of your daily work tools would be most valuable to connect to Claude?
• What tasks currently require you to copy and paste information that connectors could handle automatically?
• Are there workflows where combining data from multiple connected sources would save you significant time?

What’s next

In the next lesson, you’ll learn about Enterprise Search—a specialized feature for Claude for Work users that connects Claude to your organization’s knowledge sources with custom prompts optimized for your company’s context.

For more information on connectors and the Model Context Protocol, visit the Anthropic Help Center or explore the connector directory at claude.ai/directory.

Feedback

As you progress through the course, we’d love to hear from you about how you are using concepts from the course in your work and any feedback you may have. Share your feedback here.

Disclaimer: This course is created independently by DigitalCollegee. It is not officially affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Anthropic, the company that makes Claude AI. All information shared in this course is based on personal experience and publicly available knowledge about Claude AI.