Your favorite work tools are now interactive inside Claude
January 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Summary
TL;DR
Anthropic added “interactive tools” inside Claude, so connected apps can render editable interfaces directly in the chat. It’s powered by MCP Apps, an extension to the open Model Context Protocol.
What actually happened
Claude now shows connected tools directly in the conversation as interactive surfaces.
Users can perform app actions while seeing live previews, rather than tab-switching.
Initial interactive connectors include Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, Clay, Figma, Hex, monday.com, and Slack.
Salesforce is listed as “coming soon,” via Agentforce 360 context in Claude.
Key numbers
Date: January 26, 2026
Reading time: 5 min
Why this was hard
Tool use existed already, but users couldn’t see or edit tool state “in” the chat.
Making collaboration “in real time” requires the UI to reflect what the tool is doing.
Integrations need a consistent way to present interactive interfaces across AI products.
How they solved it
Built the feature on Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for tool connections.
Introduced MCP Apps, an MCP extension that lets an MCP server deliver interactive UI.
Designed MCP Apps to work in any AI product that supports it, not only Claude.