Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others
Anthropic's one step closer to having an everything app. … Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks …
This extension advances that arc by moving app interaction into the chatbot itself, making MCP more consequential as the connection layer between Claude and workplace software.
First-order effects
Claude users can interact with supported services including Asana, Figma, and Slack without leaving the chatbot interface.
Anthropic gains a more central role in users’ daily app workflows, while supported app partners gain a new in-Claude interaction channel.
Second-order effects
Workplace-software vendors will face pressure to make their services legible and useful through MCP-based assistant interactions, not solely through their own interfaces.
For teams already using Claude, consolidating requests and app interactions in one surface could shift routine navigation away from individual app tabs toward conversational workflows.
Third-order effects
If direct app interaction becomes dependable across more services, AI assistants may evolve from add-on copilots into an assistant operating layer that coordinates work across multiple SaaS products.
MCP’s strategic value will increasingly depend on ecosystem adoption and the quality of in-chat workflows, not merely on connecting data sources to a model.
The trend: This is part of the shift toward agentic work surfaces, where the assistant becomes the place users coordinate and act across their software stack.
We've launched the first official extension to MCP. MCP Apps lets tools return interactive interfaces instead of just plain text. Live in Claude today across a range of tools.
Claude now supports MCP Apps, which means you can get interactive experiences in Claude responses. We're excited to partner with Anthropic to support Box file previews for nearly any file type directly in your Claude chat experience.
Traditional UIs are dead. Nobody is going to login to the 100th SaaS dashboard. Instead, UIs will dynamically enter your workflow. Anthropic is the first AI company to launch an app layer into chat. You can now use applications directly in Claude through the new MCP Apps.
Anthropic launches interactive tools in Claude — On the launch page they feature Hex, which is the most transformational data application I've ever used in my career. — It actually delivers on the promise of text-to-sql, and actually text-to-insight now. — claude.com/blog/i…
Gave Codex links to the new MCP Apps SDK: blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/ 2026-0... 30 minutes later my custom Readwise Reader MCP (itself made with Codex) has a UI in Claude. — Not bad. [images]