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Sync your organization's plugins from a repository Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/org-sync …mselves, and their Git credentials aren't involved. Organization sync reads the marketplace repository's default branch through your organization's GitHub or GitLab connection on claude.ai, whichever… Plugins Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/overview …ces, the directory, and any your organization provides. Select one to read what it contains, then select **Add**. The directory's plugins appear on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. On Team and En… Plugin feature support across platforms Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/platform-support …. ## Compare installation, sync, and admin controls Chat and Cowork read plugins from your claude.ai account, and Claude Code reads them from the machine it runs on. | | Chat and Cowork | Claude Co… Plugin pre-submission checklist Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/pre-submission-checklist …Start by [running the checks](#run-the-checks-before-you-submit) and [reading a validation result](#read-a-validation-result). Then use the tables in [what validation and the scan check](#review-what-… Build your first plugin Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/quickstart …onnector, test it in Claude Code, validate it, and push it to GitHub, ready to submit your own. By the end of this quickstart, you have a working example plugin with one skill and, optionally, one re… Submit your plugin Claude Documentation · in the page plugins/submit …in chat, Cowork, and Claude Code. Use this page if your plugin is already in a GitHub repository and you want it listed. If the plugin references a remote MCP server you run, submit that server as a… Create custom skills Claude Documentation · in the page skills/how-to …ir own. It explains how to create, structure, and test one. If you already know what the skill should do, start with the [directory structure](#directory-structure). If you're not sure a skill is the… Skills overview Claude Documentation · in the page skills/overview …rn-on-and-use-skills). ## Understand how skills work Claude doesn't read every skill in full at the start of a conversation. It works through three stages: * **Knows what's available**: Claude sees… Deploy with Enterprise Admin Console Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/admin-console …and turning the switch off doesn't delete counts that Anthropic has already received. The counts contain no prompt, response, or file content. [Usage analytics](#usage-analytics) lists exactly what ea… Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Amazon Bedrock Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/bedrock …o authenticate, and the right one depends on whether your end users already work with AWS and whether you need per-user identity in CloudTrail. Use the table below to pick a path before doing any AWS… Deploy with a bootstrap server Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/bootstrap …ter, the Cowork tasks, Code sessions, projects, and scheduled tasks already on the device stay listed during that time. On those versions, scheduled tasks don't run until the app gets its configuratio… Built-in browser and Claude in Chrome Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/browser …oogle Chrome or Microsoft Edge, with the tabs and sign-ins the user already has there. In Claude Desktop on 3P, it is available only to organizations managed from the [Enterprise Admin Console](/docs/… Chat in Claude Desktop on 3P Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/chat …face: it can search and fetch the web under your admin configuration, read files attached to the conversation, read and update the project's memory and read the files in the project's folders when the… Code in Claude Desktop on 3P Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/code …ns offer Auto mode and new sessions start in it unless the user has already chosen another mode or a Claude Code `permissions.defaultMode` applies. Set it to `false` to remove Auto mode from Code and… Configuration reference Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/configuration …rkspace folders | Capabilities | Self-hosted Admin Console | | [`blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories`](#blockreadsoutsideworkingdirectories) | Block reads outside working directories | Capabilities |… Configuration changelog Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/configuration-changelog …out too: list the folder it points to. * `allowedWorkspaceFolders`: a read-only entry whose `%VAR%` is unset or unsupported on a device (any `%VAR%` on an SSH host) now makes the folder holding the va… Configuration implementation Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/configuration-format # Configuration implementation > Compare where Claude Desktop on 3P reads configuration in each kind of deployment, and write values for a profile, the registry, or the Linux file You configure Clau… Connect to Box Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/connectors-box …t":"YOUR_BOX_CLIENT_SECRET"} ``` A secret written into the script is readable by anyone who can read the file. Where your devices have a secret store or vault CLI, have the script read the secret fro… Connect to GitHub Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/connectors-github …-party/claude-desktop/configuration#managedmcpservers) | `toolsets`, `readOnly`, and per-tool [`toolPolicy`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#managedmcpservers) | | Claude Desktop versio… Connect to Microsoft 365 Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/connectors-m365 …When Claude Desktop is deployed on third-party inference, Claude can read your organization's Microsoft 365 data (Outlook mail and calendar, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams) through a connector regis… Write a credential helper Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/credential-helper …ust do Claude Desktop runs the executable at the configured path and reads stdout. The executable receives no arguments unless you set [`inferenceCredentialHelperArgs`](#pass-arguments-to-the-helper)… User identity and local data Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/data-storage …wner-only permissions so other OS accounts on the same machine cannot read them. The app encrypts stored sign-in tokens and similar secrets with the operating system's secure storage (see [Credentials… MCP, plugins, skills, and hooks Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/extensions …p/built-in-connectors.md) needs a `transport`. Claude Desktop doesn't read `type`, the field name that a plugin's `.mcp.json` file uses. It drops an entry that has no `transport` and reports a configu… Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Microsoft Foundry Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/foundry …flow requires app version 1.19367.0 or later. | | Your organization already has tooling that obtains a Microsoft Foundry credential | [Credential helper](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration… Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with an LLM gateway Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/gateway …Claude Desktop traffic: after the first request of a session, `cache_read_input_tokens` should be well above zero on most requests. If it is zero on every request, review the gateway's request transf… Import history from claude.ai Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/import …on third-party (3P), along with any Cowork and Claude Code sessions already on this machine from an earlier install. Everything lands in the local session store described in [User identity and local d… In-app configuration Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/in-app-configuration …rap.md) to distribute what you exported. When a managed profile is already present on the device, the window opens in read-only mode and shows the deployed values. Author new configurations from a de… Installation and setup Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/installation …Installation and setup > Install Claude Desktop on 3P, check device readiness, and choose whether configuration reaches your devices through the Enterprise Admin Console, an MDM profile, or a bootst… Legal and compliance Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/legal …ic.com/resources?s=l1wrssd9hsbi4gak0tp5a6\&name=%5Banthropic%5D-hipaa-ready-offering-implementation-guide) for more detail on implementation. ## Usage policy Use of Claude models, including via Clau… Desktop and filesystem access Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/local-access # Desktop and filesystem access > How Claude Desktop on 3P reads and writes files on the user's machine, and how to constrain it Like [Cowork](/docs/cowork/overview.md) in standard Claude Desktop, C… Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Amazon Bedrock Mantle Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/mantle …the managed profile. ## Troubleshoot To confirm which keys the app read and whether the provider settings validated, use **Help → Troubleshooting → Generate Diagnostic Report**, export the report,… Set up sign-in for managed MCP servers Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/mcp-sign-in …her it also needs that client's secret, fill in the OAuth fields, and read the sign-in error messages. For a remote [managed MCP server](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/extensions.md#managed-mcp-ser… Deploy with MDM Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/mdm …that folder via your MDM, not through this window | | **Egress** | A read-only firewall allowlist derived from everything you've entered above, grouped by feature **Copy hostnames**, **Download .txt*… Models and effort levels Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/models …verride` sets the display name for an ID the picker can't turn into a readable name, such as a gateway routing alias or an Amazon Bedrock application inference profile ARN. Claude Desktop still sends… Migrate Claude Desktop from a cloud provider to Claude Enterprise Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/move-to-claude-enterprise …'t upload. Set them up again. * Skills with plugin components or an unreadable header, or over about 10 MB or 200 files * Scheduled Code tasks in folders Claude Code doesn't trust * A few system or ne… Network proxy Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/network-proxy …or connect directly, exactly as the script says. The agent does not read the OS settings itself. When a session starts, the app asks the OS which proxy applies to your inference endpoint (your gatew… Overview Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/overview …ic.com/resources?s=l1wrssd9hsbi4gak0tp5a6\&name=%5Banthropic%5D-hipaa-ready-offering-implementation-guide) for more detail on implementation. ## Next steps > **[Installation and setup](/docs/third-p… SSH remote sessions in Claude Desktop on 3P Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/ssh-remote-sessions …nce credential and policy from your managed configuration. Every file read, edit, shell command, and git operation runs on the host, in the working directory the user chose there. Claude Desktop conne… Telemetry and egress Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/telemetry …it doesn't exist, before you install the package. On a device that already has the package, also delete `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list`. ## Sending telemetry to your own collector Ind… Unified Claude in Claude Desktop on 3P Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude …ponse](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/bootstrap.md). Claude Desktop reads a value it doesn't recognize as `off`. Remove the key to disable the Unified Claude experience. ## How Unified Claude inter… Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Google Cloud's Agent Platform Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/vertex …IdP and exchanges the ID token at Google STS. | | Your organization already has tooling that obtains a bearer token accepted by Google Cloud's Agent Platform | [Credential helper](/docs/third-party/cl… Web search and web fetch Claude Documentation · in the page third-party/claude-desktop/web-tools …ver | | [Gateway-side](#gateway-side-search) | A custom gateway you already run | Your gateway's configuration | Whatever your gateway is wired to | | [Remote search MCP](#remote-search-mcp) | A searc… Contributor Communication Model Context Protocol · in the page community/communication …e hours and maintainer availability **Avoid:** * MCP user support - Read official documentation and use GitHub Discussions for questions * Service or product marketing - Keep discussions vendor-neut… Contributing to MCP Model Context Protocol · in the page community/contributing …re You Begin ### Join the Community You don't need to have a change ready to get involved. Join the [MCP Contributor Discord](https://discord.gg/6CSzBmMkjX) to connect with contributors and maintain… Contributor Ladder Model Context Protocol · in the page community/contributor-ladder …d consider whether the current composition adequately represents the breadth of the MCP ecosystem. This includes enterprise adopters deploying MCP in production. **Responsibilities:** * Final techni… Design Principles Model Context Protocol · in the page community/design-principles …directly, the answer is usually that it can be built from what MCP already provides. Extensions like [MCP Apps](/extensions/apps/overview.md) and [Tasks](/extensions/tasks/overview.md) capture the pa… Feature Lifecycle and Deprecation Policy Model Context Protocol · in the page community/feature-lifecycle …does not have to reconstruct that picture from deprecation entries spread across revision changelogs. ## Tier 1 SDK Obligations Once the revision in which a feature becomes Deprecated is released a… Authorization Charter Model Context Protocol · in the page community/interest-groups/auth …lementations, and demos are presented on the call and in `#auth-ig` threads for feedback before and during the [SEP process](/community/sep-guidelines.md); the IG's rough consensus is recorded in meet… Enterprise Interest Group Charter Model Context Protocol · in the page community/interest-groups/enterprise …** are contributed asynchronously via GitHub Discussions or Discord threads and reviewed during monthly meetings. * **Recommendations to Working Groups** are finalized through lazy consensus among par… Enterprise-Managed Authorization Charter Model Context Protocol · in the page community/interest-groups/enterprise-managed-authorization …nda slots on the Auth IG call, discussion > continues in `#auth-ig` threads, and `#enterprise-managed-auth-ig` is > archived. This page is kept for reference. ## Group Type **Interest Group** ## Mi…