Claude Marketplace launches as Claude Code cloud sessions leave research preview
Anthropic opened Claude Marketplace on Sep 23, one page for connectors, Claude-powered agents and consulting partners, and the same day moved Claude Code's cloud sessions out of research preview for Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise premium seats, with a one-time credit for existing subscribers.
Previously
- Sep 16 · Claude merges chat and Cowork into one assistant that keeps working while you're awayChat and Cowork merged into one Claude, with Docs, Slides and Design inside the conversation, for Pro and Max first.
- Sep 17 · Claude folds Cowork into chat and adds documents, slides and designThat brief added the rollout detail, including at least 30 days notice for enterprise administrators.
- Sep 21 · Claude spent the week becoming one place instead of severalProjects split one conversation into parallel cloud threads that keep running after the laptop closes, Salesforce in Claude reached open beta, Docs, Slides and Design became usable inside Claude Code, and Claude Code started reading AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is present.
New since Sep 21
Anthropic gave the merged Claude a public storefront, Claude Marketplace, for the connectors, agents and consulting partners that plug into it. The same day, Claude Code's cloud sessions left research preview and Projects gained local support, so the threads that used to run only in Anthropic's cloud can now run on a person's own machine too.
What happened
Anthropic opened Claude Marketplace on Sep 23 at claude.com/marketplace, a single page for three things that used to live apart: more than 2,000 connectors and plugins, including Atlassian, Google, Microsoft, Notion and Salesforce; Claude-powered agents and products from companies such as Cursor, CrowdStrike, Harvey, Legora, Lovable and Snowflake; and consulting and integration work through the Claude Partner Network, which named Accenture, Boston Consulting Group and Deloitte as launch partners. Anthropic said customers with an existing committed Anthropic contract can put a portion of that spend toward the agent and product purchases; its own marketplace page directs those customers to their Anthropic account team to start buying, and does not state what portion of a commitment can be applied. Companies can apply to list a connector, built on the Model Context Protocol and Agent Skills, or a Claude-powered product, and services firms apply through a partner waitlist to join the Claude Partner Network, which Anthropic describes as built for the security, scale and compliance needs of enterprise customers.
The same day, Anthropic said cloud sessions, the feature previously called Claude Code on the web that keeps Claude Code working on Anthropic's own servers after a laptop closes, left research preview and became generally available for Pro, Max and Team users, and for Enterprise users with premium or Chat + Claude Code seats. Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try it, $100 on Pro and $250 on Max, spent before normal plan usage. Anthropic also added local support to Projects, the feature that splits one conversation into parallel threads: those threads had run only as cloud sessions since Projects launched Sep 17, and can now run on a person's own machine instead.
Before
Chat and Cowork had merged into one Claude with documents, slides and design inside the conversation, Projects could split a conversation into parallel cloud threads, and Claude Code could read a repo's AGENTS.md file. Nothing yet gathered the tools, agents and outside partners that connect to any of it in one place, and Projects only ran in Anthropic's cloud.
Now
Every connector, Claude-powered product and consulting partner has one page to be found on, cloud sessions are a stable plan feature instead of a preview, and Projects can run on a person's own machine as well as in the cloud.
Who it touches
- Owners already paying for Claude Pro or Max, who can now browse and add connectors from one page and get a one-time credit, $100 on Pro or $250 on Max, to try cloud sessions.
- Enterprise customers with an existing committed Anthropic contract, the only buyers Anthropic's own marketplace page currently routes to an account team for agent and product purchases.
- Software companies named at launch, such as Cursor, CrowdStrike, Harvey, Legora, Lovable and Snowflake, who now sell through one Claude storefront instead of separate deals.
- Consulting and systems-integration firms at the scale of the launch partners, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group and Deloitte, which Anthropic's partner waitlist page says it is building for the security, scale and compliance needs of enterprise customers.
What it means for the business
We already do the kind of connector work the Marketplace now catalogs, wiring Claude into the calendars, sheets and CRMs an owner already runs. A named, public home for that category is useful in a sales conversation because it is easier to point at than to explain from scratch. The pages do not say whether a shop our size can list there: the partner waitlist is written for enterprise-scale firms like Accenture and Deloitte, so we are not claiming a spot.
Cloud sessions and local Projects both reaching general availability on the same day is closer to home. It is the same choice we make on every build, whether a job runs on someone else's server or the owner's own machine, and Anthropic is now offering both as finished options instead of one preview feature.