Anthropic announced that Claude for Google Workspace is now in public beta for all paid plans. Users can directly call Claude from the sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to read and modify the currently opened files.

The plugin can be installed from the Google Workspace Marketplace, found under extensions as Claude. The sidebar displays the selected text, cells, or slides, modifies them in the original file, and enters version history. By default, it requires confirmation before editing, with an approval card for each change; users can also switch to accept all changes, allowing Claude to complete edits continuously.

In documents, minor edits can correct sentences or title styles without altering surrounding formatting, while larger rewrites can be submitted via suggestion cards, which can be applied individually or ignored. In Sheets, users can write formulas, create pivot tables and native charts, and add new worksheets; when merging or cleaning, they can pull regions into Python and write the results back to the sheet. In Slides, new pages can be created based on existing layouts and themes, highlighting overlapping, out-of-bounds, or hard-to-read elements.

Another option is the beta Docs, Sheets, Slides connectors: users can paste file links from Claude conversations or directly request new Google files, which will open a pane next to the conversation in supported environments. Access permissions follow the user's existing Google sharing settings. Team and enterprise versions require the owner to enable the connector at the organizational level first, and administrators can distribute the plugin by domain or designated groups.

The sidebar utilizes the account's existing models, connectors, and skills. An official example provided is during a customer quarterly review, where account records can be retrieved from Salesforce, call notes from Google Drive, and drafts can be generated based on saved skill templates. The enterprise version's compliance API, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK), and OpenTelemetry audit exports also apply to the plugin.

This is seat-driven, not a new model release. Paid Claude users can move editing from the chat window into Workspace files, while enterprise purchases still go through Claude subscriptions, with file permissions and installation switches remaining in the Google admin backend. Beneficiaries are organizations that have purchased Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise seats and Anthropic's renewals, while those under pressure are the usage duration of Gemini, which only exists within Workspace, and the independent chat processes still relying on copy-pasting.

Source: Public Information