Last updated: November 12, 2026
Claude interactive connectors now open a connected app, such as Asana, Canva or Notion, beside your conversation or full screen, signed in to your own account. Claude can then edit the page, row or file you have open after you approve each action. Anthropic announced it on November 10, 2026, for web and desktop on all plans.
Contents
- What changed
- Availability and supported apps
- How to open and use a full app in Claude
- Controls for admins
- For developers: MCP Apps limits
- Before and after
- Limitations
- Frequently asked questions
This guide is based on Anthropic’s announcement, the Claude Help Center article Use interactive connectors in Claude, and the Claude developer docs on app tools and embedded sites.
What changed
Interactive connectors launched earlier in 2026 as a small live view of a tool inside a chat. The November 10 update lets that tool open as a whole app next to the conversation.
The announcement lists four changes:
- Claude works in your open tools. You can ask Claude to change a page, row or file you have open. Changes appear in the tool as Claude makes them.
- The whole tool opens next to the chat. For tools like Confluence or Notion, you get the full editor, signed in to your own account, rather than a limited preview.
- Open a tool without a prompt. You can open a connected tool directly and ask Claude for help from the same screen.
- Pin the tools you use most. Pinned tools sit alongside your artifacts in the sidebar and the + menu.
You approve Claude’s actions in the app the same way you approve any connector action.
Availability and supported apps
| Item | What Anthropic states |
|---|---|
| Announced | November 10, 2026 |
| Plans | All plans |
| Where | Claude on the web and Claude Desktop, with the new Claude experience that combines chat and Cowork |
| Mobile | Inline interactive connectors work on iOS and Android; side panel and full-site views are not available on Claude Mobile yet |
| Price | No separate price is announced |
| Launch apps (full tool) | Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel, Webflow |
| Other examples named | Adobe, Atlassian (Confluence), Box, HubSpot, Notion |
| In development | Figma, Harvey, Shopify |
| Developer support | MCP Apps app tools and embedded sites, public preview |
The Help Center also lists current interactive connectors including Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, Clay, Figma, Hex and Slack. Each connector’s developer chooses which views and actions it supports, so the experience varies by app.
If you have not switched to the combined chat and Cowork layout yet, see our guide to the unified Claude desktop experience.
How to open and use a full app in Claude
- Open the Connectors Directory in Claude and look for connectors marked “Interactive.”
- Connect the tool and sign in with your account for that service.
- Open the tool directly from Claude’s navigation, or ask Claude about something the tool handles. Interactive elements appear automatically when relevant.
- Use the side panel to keep chatting while the tool updates, or expand it to full screen from the panel’s title bar. The message box stays available.
- Ask Claude for a change, such as turning meeting notes into a Notion page, and approve the action when Claude asks.
- Pin the tools you use most to the sidebar. Pins are saved per browser, so a pin on the web does not appear in Claude Desktop.
A useful workflow is to keep one document open full screen and review each edit as it lands. If you build spreadsheets in Claude, see also our Claude Sheets guide.
Controls for admins
According to Anthropic, if your organization already allows all of a connector’s tools, the new features appear as they roll out. Admins restrict a connector’s tools the same way as before.
Team and Enterprise owners can disable only the tool calls that render interactive views, in Organization settings, Connectors. Text-based tool calls keep working. Individual users can disable specific connector tools from the “Search and tools” menu in a conversation.
On security, the Help Center says in-chat views run in sandboxed iframes with strict Content Security Policies, servers must declare the external domains they need, and interactive connectors use the same permissions you granted when connecting the tool. For other organization controls, see our guides to Claude IP allowlisting and Claude inference hooks.
For developers: MCP Apps limits
Interactive connectors run on MCP Apps, an open extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets an MCP server bring its own interface into AI applications. Anthropic says Claude now supports more of the extension, including app tools and embedded sites, in public preview.
App tools let Claude change what a view shows. Register them in the view with app.registerTool (requires @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps 1.7.0 or later) or with onlisttools and oncalltool handlers. The app tools documentation sets these limits:
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Tools in one view | 64 |
| All tool definitions in a view | 1 MiB as JSON |
| Tool name | Up to 128 characters; letters, digits, ., _ and - |
| Input schema | Up to 64 KiB as JSON, nested up to 32 levels |
| Time to respond | 45 seconds, not counting user approval |
| Result text | 100,000 characters |
App tools are available to a limited set of organizations and only from remote connectors.
Embedded sites let a view load your own editor or dashboard in an iframe. Per the embedded sites documentation, declare each origin in _meta.ui.csp.frameDomains:
{
"_meta": {
"ui": {
"csp": {
"frameDomains": ["https://editor.example.com"]
}
}
}
}Your site’s frame-ancestors header must allow https://claude.ai and your connector’s exact sandbox host on claudemcpcontent.com. Directory connectors need a Verified listing that allows the origin. Views that embed sites lose camera, microphone, location and clipboard write.
Before and after
| Feature | Earlier interactive connectors | November 10 update |
|---|---|---|
| View size | Small live view in the chat | Side panel or full screen |
| Editing | Limited preview | Full editor, signed in to your account |
| Claude’s role | Calls connector tools | Also changes the item you have open |
| Opening | Through a prompt | Directly from navigation, with pinning |
Because MCP Apps is an open extension, an app built for it is not limited to Claude and can run in any AI application that supports the extension.
Limitations
- The rollout is gradual, depends on the new Claude experience, and does not yet include side panel or full-site views on Claude Mobile.
- Claude can only take actions the connector’s developer has made available.
- App tools and embedded sites for custom connectors reach only a limited set of organizations.
Frequently asked questions
What are Claude interactive connectors?
Interactive connectors are Claude connectors that show a live app instead of text only. Since November 10, 2026, supported tools such as Asana, Canva and Notion can open beside your conversation or full screen, and Claude can make changes in the page, row or file you have open after you approve them.
Which Claude plans get the full-app view?
Anthropic says the side panel and full-screen tool view are rolling out on the web and in the Claude desktop app on all plans, as part of the new Claude experience that combines chat and Cowork. They are not available in Claude Mobile yet.
Which apps work as interactive connectors in Claude?
Anthropic’s launch group includes Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel and Webflow, with examples from Adobe, Atlassian, Box, HubSpot and Notion. Look for the Interactive badge in the Connectors Directory. Figma, Harvey and Shopify are building integrations.
Can admins turn off interactive connectors?
Yes. Team and Enterprise owners can disable the specific tool calls that render interactive views in Organization settings, Connectors. The connector itself keeps working for text-based tool calls, and any existing tool restrictions still apply inside the app view.
How do developers build an interactive connector?
Interactive connectors run on MCP Apps, an open extension to the Model Context Protocol. Developers can add app tools that let Claude change what a view shows and embed their own website in a view. Both are in public preview, and some parts are limited to certain organizations.
Sources
- Your apps can now open in Claude, and Claude can work in them (Anthropic, November 10, 2026)
- Use interactive connectors in Claude (Claude Help Center)
- Let Claude call tools in your MCP App (Claude docs)
- Embed a website in an MCP App (Claude docs)