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# Welcome
> Connect Claude to your tools, teach it how your team works, and put it to work in Slack, on your desktop, in Microsoft 365, or through the Claude API.
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<p className="hl-eyebrow">Claude.ai documentation</p>
<h1 className="hl-hero-title">What do you want to do with Claude?</h1>
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<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/connectors/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Connect my apps and data</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Connectors</span></a>
<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/skills/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Teach Claude to do tasks my way</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Skills</span></a>
<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/cowork/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Give Claude a goal and check back</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Cowork</span></a>
<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/claude-tag/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Put Claude to work in my Slack</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Claude Tag</span></a>
<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/claude-science/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Analyze literature and data</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Claude Science</span></a>
<a className="hl-chip" href="/docs/docs/office-agents/overview"><span className="hl-chip-task">Draft decks, emails, and docs</span> <span className="hl-chip-name" translate="no">Claude for M365</span></a>
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<p className="hl-hero-note">To start a chat or get back to your chats, open <a href="https://claude.ai">claude.ai</a>.</p>
<a className="hl-hero-more" href="#products">Browse all products <svg className="hl-arrow hl-arrow-down" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></a>
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<h2 className="hl-sr-only">All products</h2>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Connectors</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Give Claude access to your tools and data in Google Drive, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft 365, or any MCP server.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Browse connectors <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Skills</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Teach Claude how to do something your way with reusable instructions, scripts, and resources it loads when relevant.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Learn about skills <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Plugins</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Bundle skills, connectors, and more into shareable packages for Cowork and Claude Code.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Explore plugins <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Cowork</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Hand Claude a goal on your desktop and come back to completed work, from polished documents to organized files and synthesized research.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Get Cowork <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Claude Tag</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Add Claude to Slack channels as a teammate your whole team can see, steer, and hand work to.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Set up Claude Tag <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Claude Science</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Run literature reviews, data analyses, and computational workflows in a desktop research workbench.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Set up Claude Science <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Claude for M365</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Use Claude inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with answers based on your organization's documents.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Set up Claude for M365 <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title">Claude on third-party platforms</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Get the full Claude Desktop experience, including Cowork, with model inference through Google Cloud's Agent Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, or a gateway you operate.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Deploy Claude Desktop <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<span className="hl-card-body"><span className="hl-card-title" translate="no">Claude for Government</span><span className="hl-card-desc">Set up and manage Claude for your agency, with tenant, organization, seat, and credit administration.</span></span>
<span className="hl-card-cta">Manage Claude for Government <svg className="hl-arrow" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.75" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M5 12h14" /><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7" /></svg></span>
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<p className="hl-changelogs"><strong className="hl-changelogs-label">What's new:</strong> the <a href="/docs/docs/cowork/changelog">Cowork changelog</a>, the <a href="/docs/docs/claude-science/changelog">Claude Science changelog</a>, and the <a href="/docs/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration-changelog">Claude Desktop configuration changelog</a>.</p>
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<h2 className="hl-h2">Which product do you need?</h2>
<p className="hl-lede">Start from what you're trying to do:</p>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want Claude to see my files, Slack messages, calendar, or codebase”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Connectors</span><span className="hl-row-note">access to your tools and data</span></span>
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<a className="hl-row" href="/docs/docs/connectors/microsoft/365">
<span className="hl-row-q">“I want Claude to read my Outlook mail and OneDrive files”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name">Microsoft 365 connector</span><span className="hl-row-note">your Microsoft 365 data in chat, not the Office apps</span></span>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want to turn a document into a slide deck”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Claude for M365</span><span className="hl-row-note">drafting decks, docs, and email inside the Office apps</span></span>
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<a className="hl-row" href="/docs/docs/skills/overview">
<span className="hl-row-q">“I want Claude to do this task the way my team does it”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Skills</span><span className="hl-row-note">instructions and scripts for a task</span></span>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want to share a ready-made setup with my whole team”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Plugins</span><span className="hl-row-note">bundled skills and connectors for Cowork and Claude Code</span></span>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want my whole channel to see and steer Claude’s work”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Claude Tag</span><span className="hl-row-note">Claude in your team’s Slack</span></span>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want Claude to run through my own cloud provider”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name">Claude on third-party platforms</span><span className="hl-row-note">Claude Desktop through your cloud provider</span></span>
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<span className="hl-row-q">“I want to build or publish a connector”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">MCP</span><span className="hl-row-note">build on the open protocol and submit to the directory</span></span>
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<a className="hl-row" href="https://code.claude.com/docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<span className="hl-row-q">“I’m using Claude Code in my terminal”</span>
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<span className="hl-row-a"><span className="hl-row-name" translate="no">Claude Code<span className="hl-sr-only" translate="yes"> (opens in a new tab)</span></span><span className="hl-row-note">Claude in your terminal and IDE</span></span>
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<h2 className="hl-h2">Create an account</h2>
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<div className="hl-step"><span className="hl-step-num">1</span><span className="hl-step-text">Go to <a href="https://claude.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claude.ai<span className="hl-sr-only"> (opens in a new tab)</span></a></span></div>
<div className="hl-step"><span className="hl-step-num">2</span><span className="hl-step-text">Select <strong>Continue with Google</strong> or enter your email address</span></div>
<div className="hl-step"><span className="hl-step-num">3</span><span className="hl-step-text">Follow the prompts to complete registration</span></div>
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<p>All plans have access to the <a href="/docs/docs/connectors/directory">Connectors Directory</a>. Free plans can also add one <a href="/docs/docs/connectors/custom/remote-mcp">custom connector</a>. Compare <a href="https://claude.com/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Claude plans and pricing<span className="hl-sr-only"> (opens in a new tab)</span></a>.</p>
<p>Claude for Government access is set up by your agency's administrators, so you don't need to create an account. See the <a href="/docs/docs/government/overview">Claude for Government guide</a>.</p>
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