# Knowledge Work Plugins
Plugins that turn Claude into a specialist for your role, team, and company. Built for [Claude Cowork](https://claude.com/product/cowork), also compatible with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/product/claude-code).
## Why Plugins
Cowork lets you set the goal and Claude delivers finished, professional work. Plugins let you go further: tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose — so your team gets better and more consistent outcomes.
Each plugin bundles the skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents for a specific job function. Out of the box, they give Claude a strong starting point for helping anyone in that role. The real power comes when you customize them for your company — your tools, your terminology, your processes — so Claude works like it was built for your team.
## Plugin Marketplace
We're open-sourcing 11 plugins built and inspired by our own work:
| Plugin | How it helps | Connectors |
|--------|-------------|------------|
| **[productivity](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/productivity)** | Manage tasks, calendars, daily workflows, and personal context so you spend less time repeating yourself. | Slack, Notion, Asana, Linear, Jira, Monday, ClickUp, Microsoft 365 |
| **[sales](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/sales)** | Research prospects, prep for calls, review your pipeline, draft outreach, and build competitive battlecards. | Slack, HubSpot, Close, Clay, ZoomInfo, Notion, Jira, Fireflies, Microsoft 365 |
| **[customer-support](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/customer-support)** | Triage tickets, draft responses, package escalations, research customer context, and turn resolved issues into knowledge base articles. | Slack, Intercom, HubSpot, Guru, Jira, Notion, Microsoft 365 |
| **[product-management](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/product-management)** | Write specs, plan roadmaps, synthesize user research, keep stakeholders updated, and track the competitive landscape. | Slack, Linear, Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Jira, Notion, Figma, Amplitude, Pendo, Intercom, Fireflies |
| **[marketing](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/marketing)** | Draft content, plan campaigns, enforce brand voice, brief on competitors, and report on performance across channels. | Slack, Canva, Figma, HubSpot, Amplitude, Notion, Ahrefs, SimilarWeb, Klaviyo |
| **[legal](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/legal)** | Review contracts, triage NDAs, navigate compliance, assess risk, prep for meetings, and draft templated responses. | Slack, Box, Egnyte, Jira, Microsoft 365 |
| **[finance](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/finance)** | Prep journal entries, reconcile accounts, generate financial statements, analyze variances, manage close, and support audits. | Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Slack, Microsoft 365 |
| **[data](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/data)** | Query, visualize, and interpret datasets — write SQL, run statistical analysis, build dashboards, and validate your work before sharing. | Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Definite, Hex, Amplitude, Jira |
| **[enterprise-search](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/enterprise-search)** | Find anything across email, chat, docs, and wikis — one query across all your company's tools. | Slack, Notion, Guru, Jira, Asana, Microsoft 365 |
| **[bio-research](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/bio-research)** | Connect to preclinical research tools and databases (literature search, genomics analysis, target prioritization) to accelerate early-stage life sciences R&D. | PubMed, BioRender, bioRxiv, ClinicalTrials.gov, ChEMBL, Synapse, Wiley, Owkin, Open Targets, Benchling |
| **[cowork-plugin-management](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/cowork-plugin-management)** | Create new plugins or customize existing ones for your organization's specific tools and workflows. | — |
Install these directly from Cowork, browse the full collection here on GitHub, or build your own.
## Getting Started
### Cowork
Install plugins from [claude.com/plugins](https://claude.com/plugins/).
### Claude Code
```bash
# Add the marketplace first
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
# Then install a specific plugin
claude plugin install sales@knowledge-work-plugins
```
Once installed, plugins activate automatically. Skills fire when relevant, and slash commands are available in your session (e.g., `/sales:call-prep`, `/data:write-query`).
## How Plugins Work
Every plugin follows the same structure:
```
plugin-name/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json # Manifest
├── .mcp.json # Tool connections
├── commands/ # Slash commands you invoke explicitly
└── skills/ # Domain knowledge Claude draws on automatically
```
- **Skills** encode the domain expertise, best practices, and step-by-step workflows Claude needs to give you useful help. Claude draws on them automatically when relevant.
- **Commands** are explicit actions you trigger (e.g., `/finance:reconciliation`, `/product-management:write-spec`).
- **Connectors** wire Claude to the external tools your role depends on — CRMs, project trackers, data warehouses, design tools, and more — via [MCP servers](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/).
Every component is file-based — markdown and JSON, no code, no infrastructure, no build steps.
## Making Them Yours
These plugins are generic starting points. They become much more useful when you customize them for how your company actually works:
- **Swap connectors** — Edit `.mcp.json` to point at your specific tool stack.
- **Add company context** — Drop your terminology, org structure, and processes into skill files so Claude understands your world.
- **Adjust workflows** — Modify skill instructions to match how your team actually does things, not how a textbook says to.
- **Build new plugins** — Use the `cowork-plugin-management` plugin or follow the structure above to create plugins for roles and workflows we haven't covered yet.
As your team builds and shares plugins, Claude becomes a cross-functional expert. The context you define gets baked into every relevant interaction, so leaders and admins can spend less time enforcing processes and more time improving them.
## Contributing
Plugins are just markdown files. Fork the repo, make your changes, and submit a PR.
