Wire Any Tool to Cowork in 20 Minutes

Most people think the tools Claude Cowork can talk to are a fixed menu. Whatever connectors ship in the box, that is your universe, end of story.

Wrong. If a tool has an API, you can wire it in yourself. In about twenty minutes.

MCP is the universal adapter

Think of MCP like a power adapter for the weird outlets when you travel. It does not matter that your internal CRM speaks a different language than Cowork. The adapter sits in the middle and translates, so both sides just work.

Build or find an MCP server for the tool you want. Paste the URL into Cowork. Authenticate. That is the whole ritual. Cowork now calls that tool like any other connector, no special treatment required.

If a tool has an API, it is not "unsupported." It is twenty minutes away from supported.

Your weird internal tools count too

This is the part people miss. It is not just the famous SaaS apps. Your homegrown project tracker, your billing platform that only your company uses, the CRM your ops team duct-taped together in 2019? All of it is fair game.

That ugly internal tool nobody else on earth uses is exactly the kind of thing that benefits most from automation, because nobody built a fancy integration for it. Now you do not need one.

Got a tool you wish Cowork could touch? Go find its API and wire it up.