Tools

Community-maintained cybersecurity skill library: 800+ skills across 34 domains including threat hunting, incident forensics, penetration testing and cloud security, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF. Not by Anthropic; offensive skills are for authorized testing only.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: one question searches your connected chat, email, cloud docs, wiki and project tools at once and returns a sourced answer; can also produce daily or weekly digests. Preset MCP connectors for Slack, Notion, Atlassian, Asana and more, each needing auth.

Data analysis plugin: writes queries in each SQL dialect, explores datasets, runs statistical tests, charts with Python and builds interactive HTML dashboards, then reviews methods and conclusions before sharing. Connects to Snowflake, BigQuery and other warehouses. Official from Anthropic.

Guides you through creating a plugin from scratch or customizing an existing plugin's connectors, skills and settings for your team's tools and workflows, producing an installable plugin package. Maintained by Anthropic; runs in Cowork mode in the Claude desktop app.

Common Room's official plugin: researches accounts and contacts using product usage, community and buying-intent signals, builds pre-meeting briefs and weekly call prep, drafts email, LinkedIn and phone outreach, and creates account plans. Needs a Common Room account.

Turns campaign or channel data into weekly, monthly or quarterly marketing reports: executive summary, key metrics and period-over-period trends, wins and misses, and next-period priorities. Connect analytics tools or just paste tables or key numbers. From Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins.

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.

For preclinical life sciences research: bundles MCP connectors for PubMed, bioRxiv, ChEMBL, Open Targets, ClinicalTrials and more, plus analysis skills for single-cell RNA QC, scvi-tools and nf-core pipelines. Official from Anthropic; some data sources need accounts.

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.

Compliance skill from Anthropic's official operations plugin: maps controls, owners and evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS, schedules audits, runs gap analyses, and outputs audit-readiness checklists and evidence collection plans. Have legal or compliance experts review.

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.

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.