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Claude Cowork Gets 12 New Plugins: HR, Engineering, Financial Services, and More

On February 24, 2026, Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork with 9 new knowledge work and financial services plugins, 3 partner plugins, 12 new connectors, and enterprise plugin management. Here's everything that's new.

Published on February 26, 2026

On February 24, 2026, Anthropic significantly expanded Claude Cowork's plugin ecosystem. The update brings:

  • 5 new knowledge work plugins: HR, Design, Engineering, Operations, Financial Analysis
  • 4 new financial services plugins: Investment Banking, Equity Research, Private Equity, Wealth Management
  • 3 partner plugins: Brand Voice (Tribe AI), S&P Global, LSEG
  • 12 new connectors: DocuSign, FactSet, MSCI, Google Workspace, Apollo, Outreach, Harvey, LegalZoom, WordPress, Morningstar, PitchBook, Chronograph
  • Enterprise plugin management: Private marketplace, admin controls, structured command forms

This follows the original 11 plugin release on January 30, 2026. For the complete, always-up-to-date plugin directory, see the Plugins page.


New Knowledge Work Plugins

HR

The HR plugin automates the most time-consuming parts of the employee lifecycle. Give it access to your HR systems and it can draft job descriptions, generate offer letters, build personalized onboarding plans, and structure performance reviews.

Key commands:

  • /hr:write-job-description — Generate a complete JD from a role brief
  • /hr:draft-offer-letter — Create an offer letter with your standard terms
  • /hr:onboarding-plan — Build a day-by-day onboarding checklist for a new hire
  • /hr:performance-review — Structure a performance review from manager notes

Connectors: Slack, Workday, Greenhouse, Notion, Microsoft 365

Best for: HR teams that are drowning in templated documents and want to focus on the human parts of the job.


Design

The Design plugin accelerates design workflows without replacing designers. It handles the parts of design work that slow teams down: writing UX copy, auditing interfaces for accessibility, and documenting design decisions.

Key commands:

  • /design:ux-copy — Generate interface copy for a given flow or component
  • /design:accessibility-audit — Check a design description or screenshot against WCAG standards
  • /design:design-doc — Write a design document from a Figma file or brief

Connectors: Figma, Notion, Slack, Jira, Linear

Best for: Product designers who spend too much time on UX writing and documentation rather than actual design work.


Engineering

The Engineering plugin removes process toil from engineering workflows. It writes standup summaries, structures incident postmortems, drafts runbooks, and helps coordinate response during outages.

Key commands:

  • /engineering:standup — Generate a standup update from your recent commits and tickets
  • /engineering:incident-response — Structure an incident timeline and draft the postmortem
  • /engineering:write-runbook — Create an operational runbook from a verbal description

Connectors: Slack, GitHub, Linear, Jira, PagerDuty, Notion

Best for: Engineering teams that want to reduce the overhead of process documentation so engineers can focus on shipping.


Operations

The Operations plugin handles the coordination work that keeps companies running: writing process docs, evaluating vendors, generating status reports, and managing cross-team dependencies.

Key commands:

  • /operations:process-doc — Document a business process from a description or recording
  • /operations:vendor-eval — Create a vendor evaluation framework and score candidates
  • /operations:status-report — Compile a cross-team status report from multiple sources

Connectors: Slack, Notion, Asana, Jira, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace

Best for: Ops and BizOps teams responsible for process improvement, vendor management, and organizational coordination.


Financial Analysis

The Financial Analysis plugin connects Claude to market data sources and financial modeling tools, enabling it to build models, parse earnings, research markets, and produce investor-ready presentations.

Key commands:

  • /financial-analysis:model — Build or update a financial model from assumptions
  • /financial-analysis:market-research — Research a market, sector, or competitor
  • /financial-analysis:earnings-summary — Parse and summarize an earnings release or transcript

Connectors: FactSet, MSCI, Snowflake, Daloopa, Morningstar, Microsoft 365

Best for: Corporate finance and FP&A teams building models and reporting packages.


New Financial Services Plugins

These four plugins are purpose-built for financial services professionals and live in a separate open-source repository: anthropics/financial-services-plugins.

They connect to specialized financial data providers (FactSet, MSCI, PitchBook, LSEG) and handle the document-heavy, data-intensive workflows that define institutional finance.

Investment Banking

The Investment Banking plugin handles the core workflows of an IB analyst or associate: pulling comparable company data, reviewing transaction documents, and preparing pitch materials.

Key commands:

  • /investment-banking:comps — Build a comparable companies or transactions table
  • /investment-banking:deal-review — Review a CIM, IM, or data room document for key terms and risks
  • /investment-banking:pitch-prep — Prepare a client pitch from a deal brief

Connectors: FactSet, MSCI, PitchBook, Chronograph, S&P Global, Microsoft 365


Equity Research

The Equity Research plugin is built around the earnings cycle. It parses transcripts, flags guidance changes, updates financial models, and drafts research notes—dramatically compressing the time from earnings release to published note.

Key commands:

  • /equity-research:earnings-parse — Extract key metrics, guidance, and management commentary from an earnings transcript
  • /equity-research:update-model — Update a financial model with new actuals or guidance
  • /equity-research:research-note — Draft a research note or sector update

Connectors: FactSet, LSEG, MT Newswires, Aiera, Morningstar, Microsoft 365


Private Equity

The Private Equity plugin supports the full deal lifecycle: sourcing opportunities, reviewing diligence documents, running scenario models, and scoring opportunities against investment criteria.

Key commands:

  • /private-equity:deal-source — Search for and summarize potential deals matching criteria
  • /private-equity:document-review — Review an information memorandum or VDD for key risks and terms
  • /private-equity:scenario-model — Build entry/exit scenarios with IRR and MOIC analysis

Connectors: PitchBook, Chronograph, Egnyte, Snowflake, Microsoft 365


Wealth Management

The Wealth Management plugin helps advisors analyze portfolios, identify drift, assess tax exposure, and generate rebalancing recommendations—tasks that typically require jumping between multiple systems.

Key commands:

  • /wealth-management:portfolio-analysis — Analyze a client portfolio for allocation, risk, and performance
  • /wealth-management:drift-check — Identify positions that have drifted from target allocation
  • /wealth-management:rebalance — Generate rebalancing recommendations with tax considerations

Connectors: Morningstar, MSCI, FactSet, Snowflake, Microsoft 365


Partner Plugins

Brand Voice (by Tribe AI)

Built by Tribe AI, the Brand Voice plugin enforces consistent brand tone and style across all Claude-generated content. Configure it with your brand guidelines and it automatically applies them to every piece of output.

Connectors: Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Figma

S&P Global

The S&P Global plugin gives Claude direct access to Capital IQ Pro data: company financials, market data, M&A transactions, and private company intelligence. No more switching tabs to pull data manually.

Connectors: Capital IQ Pro, Microsoft 365

LSEG

The LSEG plugin connects Claude to the London Stock Exchange Group's market data, news feeds, and financial analytics. Particularly useful for European markets and fixed income.

Connectors: LSEG Workspace, Microsoft 365


12 New Connectors

Beyond the plugins themselves, Anthropic added 12 new MCP connectors that can be used across multiple plugins:

| Connector | What it adds | |---|---| | Google Workspace | Calendar, Drive, Gmail, Docs in one connector | | DocuSign | Send and track eSignature requests | | FactSet | Real-time market data and fundamental analysis | | MSCI | Index data and performance benchmarking | | Apollo | B2B sales intelligence and contact data | | Outreach | Sales sequence management | | Harvey | AI-native legal document processing | | LegalZoom | Legal document filing and compliance | | WordPress | Publish content directly to WordPress sites | | Morningstar | Investment research and fund data | | PitchBook | Private company and VC/PE data | | Chronograph | LP and GP portfolio analytics |


Enterprise: Private Plugin Marketplace

The biggest organizational feature in this release is the Private Plugin Marketplace. Admins can now:

  1. Create a private marketplace connected to a private GitHub repository
  2. Control which plugins employees can discover and install
  3. Deploy plugins to teams — e.g., the Legal plugin to your legal team only
  4. Build private plugins and distribute them internally without making them public

This means organizations can create proprietary plugins for their internal processes (SOPs, templates, workflows) and distribute them to employees through the same interface as official Anthropic plugins.

Structured Command Forms

Slash commands now launch with structured input forms rather than requiring the user to know the exact syntax. When you type /equity-research:earnings-parse, Claude surfaces a form with fields for the ticker, period, and what to focus on. This makes plugins accessible to non-technical users.

Cross-App Orchestration

Claude can now orchestrate workflows that span Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint in a single session—building a financial model in Excel, then automatically generating a PowerPoint presentation from the model outputs, passing context seamlessly between the two apps.


How to Install the New Plugins

In Claude Cowork (Desktop):

  1. Open the Cowork tab
  2. Click "Plugins" in the left sidebar
  3. New plugins appear under "Available" — click to install

Via Claude Code CLI:

# Knowledge work plugins (HR, Design, Engineering, etc.)
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
claude plugin install hr@knowledge-work-plugins
claude plugin install engineering@knowledge-work-plugins

# Financial services plugins
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/financial-services-plugins
claude plugin install investment-banking@financial-services-plugins
claude plugin install equity-research@financial-services-plugins

What's Next

Anthropic has indicated that organization-level plugin sharing and plugin versioning are in active development. The enterprise marketplace is still early — expect more admin controls and audit logging as it matures.

For the complete, up-to-date directory of all 23 plugins, visit the Plugins page.

For the original 11 plugin guide, see Claude Cowork Plugins Complete Guide.

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