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Quickstart

Get up and running with Knowledge Work Plugins in under 5 minutes. This guide walks you through installing the sales plugin and using it to prep for a sales call.
This quickstart uses the sales plugin as an example, but the same process works for any plugin in the marketplace.

Choose your environment

Knowledge Work Plugins work in two environments:

Claude Cowork

Recommended — Visual interface with built-in plugin marketplace

Claude Code

CLI-based development environment with plugin support
This quickstart covers both. Choose the tabs that match your environment as you follow along.

Installation

# Install from the visual marketplace at:
# https://claude.com/plugins

# Search for "sales" and click Install
Once installed, the plugin activates automatically. Skills fire when relevant, and slash commands become available in your session.
No configuration is required to start using a plugin. You can customize it later with your company’s tools and context.

Use a skill

Skills activate automatically when Claude detects relevant intent. Let’s try the call-prep skill from the sales plugin. Start a conversation with Claude:
Prep me for my call with Acme Corp tomorrow
Claude will ask you a few questions:
  • What type of meeting is this? (discovery, demo, negotiation, etc.)
  • Who’s attending? (names and titles if you know)
  • Any context you want to share? (paste notes, emails, etc.)
Provide whatever information you have. Claude will:
  1. Research the company using web search
  2. Look up attendees on LinkedIn if you provide names
  3. Generate a comprehensive call prep brief
# Call Prep: Acme Corp

**Meeting:** Discovery Call — Tomorrow
**Attendees:** Sarah Chen (VP Engineering), Michael Park (CTO)
**Your Goal:** Understand their current workflow and pain points

---

## Account Snapshot

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Company** | Acme Corp |
| **Industry** | SaaS - Developer Tools |
| **Size** | 150 employees, Series B |
| **Status** | New prospect |

---

## Who You're Meeting

### Sarah Chen — VP Engineering
- **Background:** Previously led platform at TechCo, Stanford CS
- **LinkedIn:** linkedin.com/in/sarahchen
- **Role in Deal:** Technical decision maker
- **Talking Point:** Recently posted about scaling challenges

### Michael Park — CTO
- **Background:** Former architect at BigCorp, MIT
- **LinkedIn:** linkedin.com/in/michaelpark
- **Role in Deal:** Final approver
- **Talking Point:** Speaking at DevConf next month on infrastructure

---

## Recent News

- **Series B funding ($25M)** — Announced 2 months ago, focused on product expansion
- **Hiring push** — 10 engineering roles posted, suggests scaling challenges

---

## Suggested Agenda

1. **Open** — Reference their recent funding and growth
2. **Current State** — How they handle deployments today
3. **Pain Points** — What breaks as they scale
4. **Vision** — Where they want to be in 6 months
5. **Next Steps** — Propose technical deep dive

---

## Discovery Questions

1. What does your deployment process look like today?
2. What breaks first when you try to scale?
3. How much engineering time goes to infrastructure vs features?
4. What's your timeline for solving this?
5. Who else should be involved in evaluating solutions?

Supercharge it with connectors

The call prep worked great with just web search. Now connect your CRM to supercharge it:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hubspot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.hubspot.com/anthropic"
    }
  }
}
Now when you ask Claude to prep for a call, it will:
  • Pull account details and history from HubSpot
  • Find prior activities and notes
  • Check for open opportunities
  • Extract context from logged emails
All automatically, without you needing to search for it.

Use a command

Commands are explicit workflows you invoke with slash syntax. Let’s try the /call-summary command. After your call with Acme Corp, paste your notes:
/call-summary

Met with Sarah Chen (VP Eng) and Michael Park (CTO) at Acme Corp.

They're using Jenkins for CI/CD but it's becoming a bottleneck.
Deploys take 2+ hours. Breaking regularly as team grows.

Sarah seemed very interested in our multi-region capabilities.
Michael asked about SOC 2 compliance timeline.

Next steps:
- Send them our security questionnaire
- Schedule technical deep dive for next week
- Sarah will introduce us to their DevOps lead
Claude will process your notes and generate:
## Call Summary: Acme Corp — Feb 28, 2026

**Attendees:** Sarah Chen (VP Engineering), Michael Park (CTO)
**Call Type:** Discovery

### Key Discussion Points

1. **Current CI/CD Setup** — Using Jenkins, experiencing bottlenecks
   - Deploys taking 2+ hours
   - Reliability issues as team scales

2. **Technical Interests** — Multi-region deployment capabilities

3. **Compliance** — SOC 2 timeline is a decision factor

### Customer Priorities

- Reduce deployment time and improve reliability
- Multi-region support for global customers
- SOC 2 compliance for enterprise deals

### Action Items

| Owner | Action | Due |
|-------|--------|-----|
| You | Send security questionnaire | This week |
| You | Schedule technical deep dive | Next week |
| Sarah | Introduce DevOps lead | Next week |

### Next Steps

- Technical deep dive scheduled for next week
- Will meet DevOps lead to discuss current architecture

---

## Follow-Up Email

Subject: Great meeting today + next steps

Hi Sarah and Michael,

Thank you for taking the time to meet today. It was great to learn about how you're scaling your deployment infrastructure and the challenges you're facing with Jenkins.

Based on our conversation, I'm sending over:

1. Our security questionnaire (SOC 2 timeline and compliance details)
2. A case study from a similar company that reduced deploy time from 2 hours to 12 minutes
3. Multi-region architecture overview

I'll also get that technical deep dive on the calendar for next week. Looking forward to meeting your DevOps lead and diving deeper into your current setup.

Let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.

Best,
[Your name]

Explore other plugins

Now that you’ve seen how the sales plugin works, explore the other 10 plugins in the marketplace:

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Data

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Finance

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Legal

Review contracts, navigate compliance, assess risk
Browse the plugin documentation in the sidebar to explore all available plugins.

Next steps

1

Connect your tools

Edit the plugin’s .mcp.json file to connect your CRM, email, calendar, and other tools. See Connectors for details.
2

Add company context

Customize skill files with your company’s terminology, processes, and best practices. See Customization.
3

Create custom commands

Build your own slash commands for workflows specific to your team. See Creating Commands.
4

Build a new plugin

Use the cowork-plugin-management plugin to create plugins for roles we haven’t covered. See Getting Started.

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