Salesforce and Anthropic Expand Partnership With Claudeforce Plugin

Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded strategic partnership on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, that embeds Salesforce's customer data and business workflows directly into Anthropic's Claude chatbot through a new plugin called Claudeforce. The partnership, which deepens a relationship where Salesforce is already a major investor and customer of Anthropic, aims to allow sales teams to automate tasks and manage pipelines without leaving the Claude interface.

The core of the announcement is a plugin named Salesforce in Claude, which launches with 37 prebuilt sales skills developed jointly by the two companies. These skills cover functions such as meeting preparation, deal health reviews, and pipeline management, enabling sellers to automate updates and take governed actions within Claude. The integration is powered by Salesforce's AIforce framework, which connects business data and workflows to AI agents. Administrators can connect the plugin once, with authentication and permissions applied across a team, eliminating the need for per-user setup.

The partnership extends beyond the plugin. Claude is now the default model for Slack, powering Slackbot and a new feature called...