Why Claude Mobile Proves Embedded Tools Beat Plugins for AI Agents
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Generative AI
The plugin era is ending Anthropic just shipped something that reveals exactly where AI agents are headed: Claude mobile now runs live, interactive Figma, Canva, Slack, and Amplitude instances directly inside the chat interface. Not screenshots. Not summaries. Functional canvases you can edit and push changes back to the source tool. This is the difference between a plugin and an embedded tool. And it matters than you think. Plugins retrieve. Embedded tools operate.