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A free guide by Mariah Brunner ↗ INSTAGRAM ↗ TIKTOK

Claude Has 16
Free Plugins For Your Job

Each one turns Claude into a specialist for a kind of work. Built by Anthropic, included with any paid plan and installed in 30 seconds. Here’s how to pick yours and make it fit how you work.

A plugin bundles skills, connectors and sub-agents for one job into a single install. When I first made this video, Anthropic had 11. Its open-source collection now has 16 role plugins, plus a PDF viewer. Plugins work on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise, in regular chat and in Cowork (Anthropic’s plugin guide).

Install Any Plugin In 30 Seconds
  1. Open Customize in the left sidebar of the Claude app. Anthropic is renaming it Plugins, so you may see that name instead.
  2. Go to the Plugins tab, then Discover.
  3. Pick a plugin and click Add.

Then type / or click + in any chat to see its new skills. You can also browse everything in the plugin directory.

Find Yours
  1. Productivity (install this first). Tasks, your calendar, daily planning and a memory of the context you’d otherwise repeat. Connects to Slack, Notion, Asana, Linear, Jira, Monday, ClickUp and Microsoft 365.
  2. Sales. Prospect research, call prep and follow-ups, pipeline reviews, outreach and forecasts.
  3. Marketing. Content, campaign plans, brand voice checks, competitor briefs and performance reports.
  4. Finance. Journal entries, reconciliations, financial statements, variance analysis and month-end close.
  5. Data. SQL, dataset exploration, charts and dashboards, with checks before you share.
  6. Legal. Contract review, NDA triage, compliance and risk. Its launch helped set off a big software-stock selloff in February 2026.
  7. Enterprise Search. One question across your email, chat, docs and wikis.
  8. Product Management. Specs, roadmaps, user research synthesis and stakeholder updates.
  9. Customer Support. Ticket triage, draft replies, escalations and knowledge base articles.
  10. Small Business. Ready-made workflows for running and growing a small business, built around the tools most owners already use.
  11. Human Resources. Recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews, compensation analysis and policy questions.
  12. Operations. Vendor management, process docs, change management and capacity planning.
  13. Design. Design critique, design systems, UX writing and accessibility audits.
  14. Engineering. Standups, code review, architecture decisions and incident response.
  15. Bio Research. Literature search, genomics analysis and target prioritization for early life sciences research.
  16. Cowork Plugin Management. The meta-plugin for building a new plugin or reshaping an existing one. If none of these fit your role, you can also go to Customize (or Plugins), then Plugins, Add and Create with Claude, and Claude builds one with you.

Which do I pick? Productivity plus your role’s plugin. In sales, that’s Productivity and Sales. Running your own thing? Productivity and Small Business. You can install as many as you want, and Claude reaches for whichever fits the task.

Pick My Plugins
You're my Claude setup coach. Help me pick the right Anthropic plugins and get the most out of them. ABOUT MY WORK - My role and company: [e.g. founder of a 4-person skincare brand] - What fills my week: [the 5 to 10 tasks I spend the most time on] - Tools I use every day: [e.g. Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Shopify, HubSpot] - What I'm worst at keeping up with: [e.g. follow-ups, reporting, content] DO THIS 1. Look at the plugins available in my Customize (or Plugins) > Plugins > Discover list. Recommend the 2 or 3 that fit my work best, starting with Productivity unless something else clearly matters more. One line each on why. 2. For each pick, list the 3 skills or slash commands I'll use most, matched to my actual tasks above, with one real test prompt for each. 3. List the connectors each pick needs from my tools, and flag any tool I use that it doesn't connect to yet. 4. Tell me the 5 things I should tell Claude when I click Customize on each plugin, so it fits how I work from day one. 5. If no plugin covers one of my big weekly tasks, describe the custom plugin I should build with Create with Claude (Plugins tab > Add). Keep it short and practical, in a table where it helps. If you can't see my plugin list, ask me to paste it instead of guessing what's available.
The Secret Step: Customize It

Installing is step one. Out of the box, a plugin runs on generic defaults. Customizing bakes in your tools, your process and your preferences, so the output sounds like your work.

01

Click Customize

Open the installed plugin and click Customize in the upper right. It opens a new Cowork task. Click Let’s go.

02

Answer in detail

Claude interviews you about how you work. Give it your role, your tools, your preferences and your pet peeves. I use voice input here because I give way more detail talking than typing.

03

Share real examples

Upload past deliverables, brand guides, email templates and report formats, so the plugin’s output matches what you actually ship.

04

Test each skill

Type / and run every new skill on a real task. If something feels off, tell Claude in the same task and it updates the plugin.

Want my full customize brief? It’s in How to Customize Plugins in Claude.

Get The Most Out Of Plugins
  1. Connect your tools first. Go to Customize (or Plugins), then Connectors, and link Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack or Notion before customizing. The plugin then uses your real data instead of asking you to paste things in.
  2. Add your own skills on top. Built a great meeting prep routine? Ask Claude to add it to the plugin while you customize.
  3. Stack plugins. Sales and Productivity work great together. Marketing and Data is strong for campaign analysis.
  4. Recustomize when things change. New role, new clients or new priorities? Click Customize again.
  5. Know the limits. Customizing happens in Cowork, and sub-agents run in Cowork and Claude Code, not regular chat.

Not sure when you need a plugin versus a skill? Read Skills vs Plugins.