Tools

Finance and accounting plugin: prepares journal entries, reconciles accounts, generates income statements, runs variance analysis, manages month-end close and supports SOX audit testing. Can pull data from ERPs and data warehouses. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For internal auditors running SOX tests: lists key controls by area (revenue, procure-to-pay, payroll, close, ITGC) and period, sets sample sizes, samples from your population, and generates test workpaper templates and deficiency assessments. Needs professional review. Official from Anthropic.

Pre-signature check for final contracts: open redlines, missing exhibits, party names and signature blocks, then sets up sequential or parallel signing. Sends via DocuSign or similar e-signature services when connected, otherwise writes signing instructions. From Anthropic's legal plugin.

Account reconciliation following accounting methodology: GL to subledger, bank reconciliations and intercompany balances, with reconciling items categorized, aged and escalated. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin; results need professional review.

Helps accountants prepare month-end journal entries: debit/credit treatment for accruals, prepaid amortization, depreciation, payroll and revenue recognition, plus required support and review checklists, following US GAAP. Not financial advice; review before posting. From Anthropic's finance plugin.

Turns resolved tickets, common questions or workarounds into publish-ready knowledge base articles, structured as how-to guides, troubleshooting, FAQs or known issues, and optimized for search. From Anthropic's official customer-support plugin.

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.

Turns processes that live in people's heads into SOPs: flowcharts, a RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed), detailed steps and exceptions, ready for handoffs, audits and onboarding. Describe the process or paste existing notes. Official from Anthropic.

Builds onboarding plans for new hires: a pre-start checklist (accounts, equipment, buddy), day-one and first-week schedules, and 30/60/90-day goals. Works in plain chat; with an HRIS, knowledge base or calendar connected it pulls in team info and books day-one events. Official from Anthropic.

Packages customer issues that need engineering, product or leadership into an escalation brief with scope, repro steps, business impact, asks and deadline, and decides who to escalate to. Support and CRM connectors add context automatically. Part of Anthropic's official customer-support plugin.

Everyday software engineering plugin: standup summaries, code review, structured debugging, architecture decision records, incident response and pre-deploy checks. Official from Anthropic, built mainly for Cowork but also usable in Claude Code.

Customer support plugin: triages and prioritizes tickets with routing suggestions, drafts customer replies, packages escalations, researches customer issues across sources and turns resolved issues into knowledge base articles. Official from Anthropic.

Produces monthly, quarterly or annual income statements with prior-period, year-over-year and budget comparisons, flagging material variances. Includes balance sheet and cash flow formats plus GAAP presentation and period-end adjustment references. From Anthropic's finance plugin; get it reviewed.

Compensation analysis for HR and managers: market pay percentiles by role, level and location, offer competitiveness checks and equity modeling; upload a pay sheet to find employees outside their band and flight risks. Without a comp data source it uses public web data, so verify. By Anthropic.

Before replying to a customer, verifies answers across the knowledge base, past tickets, CRM and chat history, grades confidence and cites sources; can also find whether an issue was reported before or what a customer was told. From Anthropic's official customer-support plugin.

Helps small business owners collect overdue payments: finds overdue invoices in QuickBooks, Xero, PayPal or Stripe and drafts reminder emails with a tone suited to each customer's payment history, sent only after your approval. Without a connection, upload an AR aging CSV. By Anthropic.

Answers employee policy questions in plain language, such as PTO, benefits, expenses, travel and remote work, with sources cited. Paste the handbook into the chat, or connect Notion, Confluence or another knowledge base to search automatically, cutting repeat HR questions. Official from Anthropic.

Account health checks for customer success managers: pulls CRM, email, calendar and call notes to score relationship, engagement, commercial (renewal and expansion), support and value delivery red/yellow/green, and can prep a QBR agenda. CRM preferred; uploads work. Official from Anthropic.