Claude now opens your apps beside the chat: full editors run in place, and every change is approved one by one
Synopsis
Anthropic has extended interactive connectors from a small live view inside the conversation to full tool interfaces that open beside the chat or go full screen, and Claude can now make changes directly to a page, row, or file the user has open, with each action approved the way connector actions are approved. Until now these connectors in Claude mainly appeared as interactive views within the conversation; Claude now supports more of the MCP Apps extension, including app tools and embedded sites, starting with a small group of tools including Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow.
Interpretation
Claude can now work inside a tool the user has open: the user asks it to change an open page, row, or file, the changes appear in the tool as Claude makes them, and the user approves each action the same way connector actions are approved. Previously, interactive connectors in Claude mainly appeared as interactive views in the conversation, giving a small live view of the tool rather than the full tool interface. The capability starts with a small group of tools from the directory, including Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow, and rolls out on the web and in the Claude desktop app on all plans as part of the new Claude experience.
A tool no longer stays a preview pane beside the chat but opens as a full application: the user can hide the chat or go full screen, and tools such as Confluence or Notion give the full editor signed into the user's own account. The earlier limited preview did not provide the full editor, so users worked inside a restricted view. With Atlassian, a user opens a Confluence page beside the chat, asks Claude to write and edit, and reviews the changes live on the page; with Box, a user opens a file, asks Claude to revise it, and compares versions side by side before keeping the changes.
The developer-side capability comes from MCP Apps, the open extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets an MCP server bring its own interface into AI applications; Claude now supports more of that extension, such as app tools and embedded sites. Previously, MCP Apps in Claude were mainly limited to interactive views in the conversation, so a developer's full app could not run inside Claude. Support for these capabilities is in public preview for developers, who can start building today; an app built on MCP Apps is not limited to Claude and can run in any AI application that supports the extension.
Perspective
The demonstrated scope is a staged rollout on the web and in the Claude desktop app, covering a small group of tools from the directory including Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow, visible once an account is updated to the new Claude or an organization turns it on; developer-side support for app tools and embedded sites is in public preview.
Features appear as accounts or organizations are updated, so not every user sees them immediately; integrations from Figma, Harvey, and Shopify are still being built; the developer-side capabilities are labeled public preview. Admins can restrict a connector's tools the same way they do today.