Claude AI Now Lets You Use Slack, Figma, and Canva Within the Chat

[MacRumors]

Anthropic has announced new interactive tools in Claude that let users open and interact with other services and apps directly within the AI chat interface via the web and Mac app.

The update offers real-time collaboration with third-party apps like Asana, Slack, Figma, Canva, and more without requiring users to switch between tabs or apps.

The feature is powered by MCP Apps, a new extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets any MCP server deliver an interactive interface within supporting AI products. Anthropic open-sourced MCP last year as a universal standard for connecting tools to AI applications.

Per Anthropic's announcement, here's what you can now do directly in Claude:

Amplitude – Build analytics charts, then explore trends and adjust parameters interactively to uncover hidden insights.

Asana – Turn chats into projects, tasks, and timelines your team can see and execute in Asana.

Box – Search for files, preview documents inline, then extract insights and ask questions about your content.

Canva – Create presentation outlines, then customize branding and design in real-time to produce client-ready decks.

Clay – Research companies, find contacts with email and phone info, pull data like company size and funding, then draft personalized outreach directly in your conversation.

Figma – Prompt to turn text and images into flow charts, Gantt charts, or other visual diagrams in FigJam.

Hex – Ask data questions and get answers complete with interactive charts, tables, and citations.

monday.com – Manage your work, run projects, update boards, smartly assign tasks, and visualize progress with insights.

Slack (from Salesforce) – Search and retrieve Slack conversations for context, generate message drafts, format them your way, and review before you post.

Interactive tools are available on web and desktop for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with support said to be coming to Claude Cowork down the line.

The integrations are similar to ChatGPT's Apps system, introduced last October, which allows users to interact with third-party tools inside the chat interface.

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[thefredelement]

Claude has been experiencing rapid regressions in functionality since the start of the year. Features like this and co-work are cool ideas but ultimately worthless when the model (opus 4.5) performs so poorly.

 

[IGI2]

Can you use free Figma or you need Figma Professional, which includes: Advanced Dev Mode inspection and MCP Server?

 

[LoCarbHotrod]

I'm officially entering the boomer phase because I don't know what any of this means.

 

[TheBeverage]

After someone said the AI logos all look like anuses, I really can't unsee it...

 

[johannnn]

Claude has been experiencing rapid regressions in functionality since the start of the year.

For every post of this I see on Reddit, there is equal amount of posts that say the opposite

And my own experience is that it has not seen any "rapid regression" at all. I use Claude Code daily.

 

[trusso]

You say “AI” but all I hear is:

 

[Xil3]

Claude has been experiencing rapid regressions in functionality since the start of the year. Features like this and co-work are cool ideas but ultimately worthless when the model (opus 4.5) performs so poorly.

In comparison to what? I haven't had any issues with Claude.

 

[routine_analyst]

It's insane how hard advertising is pushing the use of Figma. On TV and streaming (with ads) Figma pops up about as often as other AI tools - pushing people to suddenly need to 'build their own apps'. As if these apps would be well designed/production ready/useful/scalable products suddenly because... well... "ai can do it!"

Every damn prompt I enter into AI results in a jumbled mess of code or front end design that neither looks unique or innovative. "Design me a dashboard for a financial wellness banking app" literally spits out the same exact balance at top, 3 primary buttons to move money, a card displaying the same layout for transactions, etc.

And then you have this idea of using AI to 'speed up process' when you upload a Figma. Again - this results in the same exact layouts pumped out for features you dump requirements into to get the same resulting crap. You spend more time trying to tell it to move a box around the screen then simply clicking and dragging the damn thing where you want it.

Why was this the first target for AI after they went for development jobs and the arts? Why not the crap no one wanted to ever work on?

 

[Mcsnee]

Finally--all the crap I refuse to use in one easy-to-refuse place!

 

[thefredelement]

For every post of this I see on Reddit, there is equal amount of posts that say the opposite

And my own experience is that it has not seen any "rapid regression" at all. I use Claude Code daily.

I did use Claude Code daily and switched to codex for the meantime. It went rapidly down hill after the holiday 'double your limit' special. This isn't the first time this has happened and Antrhopic even admitted it last time, I'm curious how this 'instance' gets resolved. There are now crowd sourced and benchmark based web apps that help indicate claude performance:

https://marginlab.ai/ (even the creator notes how not ideal this is, but it is still an indicator).
https://www.isclaudecodedumb.today/ (there are others like this.)

Between this and the amount of error rates I get notified about from their system, they're just not reliable in my engineering workflow. I had similar problems with OpenAI's change from o3-mini-high / o1 to o4-mini-high and o3, which drove me to claude in the first place.

I have no sense of loyalty with any of these tools and hope claude recovers soon - I had a neat claude / codex workflow that I'd like to get back to.

In comparison to what? I haven't had any issues with Claude.

In my work, directly to codex 5.2 high / extra high thinking for coding.

 

[svish]

Interesting to hear about this. Will try out with Canva integration.

 

[indefinite]

After Clawdbot, now this? Anthropic finds that the best way to beat their open-source competition is by sending S&Ds and involving AI integrations already powered by existing MCPs in the community marketplace.