Tools

Checks hours before payroll for US small businesses: totals regular time, overtime and PTO from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or timesheets, and flags missed punches, overtime anomalies, rate changes and mid-period hires or exits. Prepares only, never runs payroll. Official from Anthropic.

Apollo.io's official plugin: describe your ideal customer profile in plain language to find prospects, enrich contacts with emails, phone numbers and company data, and bulk-add them to outreach sequences. Connects to Apollo's remote MCP; needs an Apollo account, and enrichment uses credits.

Anthropic's official data skill that guides agents to write, translate and optimize SQL across Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL and other warehouse dialects, including CTEs, window functions and analytical aggregations.

Drafts offer letters from role, level, location and comp package, listing base salary, equity, signing bonus and first-year total, plus talking points for the hiring manager's negotiation. The template follows US company conventions; have legal review before sending. Official from Anthropic.

Breaks budget-versus-actual, year-over-year and month-over-month variances into volume, price and mix drivers, filters by materiality thresholds, writes variance commentary and provides waterfall breakdowns for monthly business reviews. From Anthropic's official finance plugin.

Helps with headcount planning and org design: maps reporting lines and spans of control, sequences upcoming hires, estimates people costs, and flags structural issues like single points of failure or top-heavy management. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Anthropic's official small-business skill for bills: reads vendor, amount and due date from email, PDFs or photos, dedupes, codes to accounts, matches POs and drafts a payment plan. Posting and paying each need approval; it never auto-pays. Works with QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or file export.

Designs multi-email marketing sequences for onboarding, lead nurturing, win-back and launches, with full copy for each email, timing, branches and exit conditions, benchmarks and A/B test ideas. No email tool required. Part of Anthropic's official marketing plugin.

Reorder planning for small merchants: reads sales and stock from Shopify, Square, NetSuite or CSV, projects stockout dates from 7- and 28-day velocity, sizes reorders from 60-day usage plus lead time, drafts POs and supplier emails, and flags dead stock. Nothing is sent unapproved. By Anthropic.

Anthropic's official business operations plugin: vendor evaluations, process docs (flowcharts, RACI, SOPs), change requests, capacity planning, status reports and runbooks. Works without external tools and does more with ITSM and project management tools connected.

Performance review season helper: generates self-review and manager review templates and calibration materials, summarizes rating distributions and promotion cases, and rewrites vague feedback into specific behavioral examples. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Tracks the hiring funnel through sourcing, screening, interviews, debrief and offer, watching stage time and conversion, source effectiveness, offer acceptance and time to hire. With an ATS connected it pulls candidate data and updates status. A brief skill from Anthropic's human-resources plugin.

Writes stakeholder updates by audience and cadence: weekly or monthly reports, launch announcements or risk escalations, and can rewrite the same progress as an executive summary, an engineering deep dive or a customer-facing version. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Builds structured interview kits for a role: behavioral and situational questions by competency, follow-up probes, a 1 to 4 scoring rubric and a debrief template, so interviewers assess candidates against the same bar. Part of Anthropic's official human-resources plugin.

Month-end reconciliation for small businesses: matches QuickBooks or Xero line by line against PayPal, Stripe and Shopify payouts, flags likely duplicates and missing receipts, explains the P&L in plain terms and exports a close package (Excel and PDF). CSVs work too. Official from Anthropic.

Plans a sprint: estimates team capacity around time off and meetings, sets scope, goals and P0 versus stretch items, handles carryover from the last sprint, and outputs a sprint plan document. Works without any connected tools. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

HR plugin: drafts offer letters, generates onboarding checklists, runs performance reviews, answers policy questions, and produces compensation benchmarks and people analytics reports. Can connect to HRIS and ATS systems. Official from Anthropic.

Synthesizes user feedback from interview notes, surveys and support tickets into themes ranked by frequency and impact, and outputs structured insights and roadmap recommendations. Can pull data from knowledge bases or meeting transcripts. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Screens resumes against a role rubric into a cited shortlist, ignoring irrelevant details like name and age; drafts invite, hold or decline replies, schedules interviews and builds onboarding checklists. Gmail and Calendar are optional, sending only after you confirm. Official from Anthropic.

Generates people analytics reports from employee data: headcount snapshots, voluntary and involuntary attrition, diversity metrics, spans of control and flight risk, with findings and recommendations for leadership. Needs an uploaded employee CSV or a connected HRIS. Official from Anthropic.

Skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: before a customer meeting, pulls together attendees, account history, past call notes and deal status into a one-page brief with suggested discovery questions. Works best with calendar, CRM and email connectors; uploaded files also work.

Pulls verbatim customer quotes on a topic from call transcripts, meeting notes and emails, tagging each with speaker, account and date, and summarizes recurring themes into voice-of-customer findings for product and marketing. Connect Gong, email or drive, or upload transcripts. By Anthropic.

Runs compliance checks on planned features, marketing campaigns or business initiatives: identifies applicable regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, required approvals and risks, and concludes go, go with conditions, or needs further review. From Anthropic's legal plugin; not legal advice.

Official Slack (Salesforce) plugin in Anthropic's knowledge work marketplace: connects Slack's hosted MCP to search and send messages, read channels and threads, and manage canvases, with commands for channel digests, standup updates and announcements. Needs workspace admin approval.