Connectors and the Plugin Marketplace

Files were phase one. Connectors are phase two: linked accounts — Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack, Notion, and more — that let tasks span the places your work actually lives. "Summarize this week's emails from the vendor, cross-reference the contract PDF in this folder, and draft a reply" is one task once the connector exists. Since February 2026 there's also a plugin marketplace: packaged integrations you install per workspace, which on Team and Enterprise plans admins can manage by role.

Connect deliberately. Each connector expands what Claude can see and do on your behalf, so add them the way you'd grant a new assistant system access: start with the one that unlocks your most common task (usually email or calendar), use it for a week, then add the next. The approval loop still applies everywhere — drafts get reviewed before sending, and outbound actions ask first.

A good first connector task is read-only: "go through my inbox and build a table of everyone who's asked about invoices this month." You get real value, and nothing leaves your account while you calibrate.