📜 Anthropic just dropped three new ways to work inside Claude instead of bouncing out to other apps: Claude Whiteboards (beta), Claude Sheets (beta), and Claude Data — the renamed, now generally-available version of Claude Dashboards. All three are live on every paid plan. ⚓ Claude Whiteboards (beta) - A shared board where you and your team brainstorm with Claude sitting at the table. - Describe a messy plan out loud and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners, and dates. - Real-time collaboration — teammates drop notes at the same time, and Claude can group them by theme and draft action items per person (handy for retros). - Drag a box around part of the board and ask Claude about just that section. - Export a board into a doc or deck, or push it into Lucid, Miro, or Vani by Zoho. ⚓ Claude Sheets (beta) - A spreadsheet Claude builds and edits with you — ask for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget and it generates multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-downs. - Claude edits cells and labels every change so you can see what moved. - Share sheets and work on them together with Claude in the loop. - Functionality is basic for now (Anthropic's own words). Need real Excel power? Export to .xlsx/CSV, or use Claude for Excel inside Claude for Microsoft 365. Also connects to Airtable, Asana, monday.com, and Smartsheet. ⚓ Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards — now GA) - Dashboards launched in beta back in October 2026 for querying warehouses like Redshift, BigQuery, and ClickHouse. Renamed because it's grown past just dashboards. - Certified metrics (beta) — data teams can certify "the" query everyone should use, so charts built on it show a certified badge instead of five people reporting five different numbers. - Claude can draft data stories or narrated videos from your metrics for review before you share them. - Live sharing (beta) — colleagues see current numbers without needing access to your underlying data connectors; they only see the queries you approved, nothing else. - Dashboards now cache results with a refresh cadence you set per dashboard (previously every open reloaded from scratch), support your brand's design system, and track edits with rollback to any version. - Also connects to Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog, Sigma, and ThoughtSpot. Requires a connected data source to use at all.

Tired of approving every command, but not ready to hand Claude the keys? The best practice repo's own .claude/settings.json takes a middle road: allow everything, then list the commands that must stop and ask. - Allow wide. Edit, Write and Bash(*) are pre-approved, so routine work never prompts. - Ask on 22 patterns. rm, chmod, dd, kill and pkill, plus npm, pip, yarn, pnpm, docker, kubectl, gcloud, firebase and wget. Ask rules beat allow rules, so these still pause for a yes. - Gotcha: it's a blocklist, and deny is empty. Anything not listed runs unprompted, including curl and git push. Add your own danger commands before you copy it. Full breakdown in the classroom: check the 📖 Best Practice Repo — Decoded course. —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)

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📜 Anthropic just dropped a big one: Claude can now sit in on your Google Meet calls as an actual participant — not a silent recorder, one that talks, takes notes, and builds stuff while you meet. ⚓ What It Is Claude Meetings is rolling out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, in both Claude (web/app) and Claude Desktop. Once added to a Google Meet call, Claude shows up as a visible participant. During the meeting it can take notes, answer questions out loud or in chat, and build artifacts like docs, whiteboards, and slides on request. ——— ⚓ How To Add It - Go to Meetings inside Claude - Connect your Google Calendar (an org owner has to enable this first) - Pick the meeting from your calendar - Click "Add Claude" You can also flip on auto-join — every meeting, or every meeting except one-on-ones. During the call, say "Claude" and ask a question, or type in Meet chat. Ask it to build something with "Claude, make a doc" or "Claude, make a whiteboard" and it attaches the result right to the meeting page. It can stick around up to 8 hours and gives a warning before it leaves. ——— ⚓ After The Meeting Everything lands on a meeting page: the transcript, a notes summary with action items, and every artifact Claude built. Internal invitees get a recap email with the link. There's also a Meetings calendar showing past and upcoming calls, and you can ask Claude about old meetings right in regular chat. ——— ☠️ Watch Out - Beta is Team/Enterprise only — not on Free or Pro, and it's excluded for orgs with zero data retention, HIPAA-ready, or customer-managed encryption key setups. - On Team plans it's ON by default — an owner has to manually turn it off. Make sure everyone on a call is comfortable being transcribed before adding it or turning on auto-join. - Google Meet and Google Calendar only, for now — no Zoom, no Outlook. - With outside guests on a call, Claude stays out by default unless an owner allows it, and it'll leave if another company's notetaker bot joins too. Guests never get the meeting page or recap email. - Pricing: notes, transcripts, and answers are included free on Team/Enterprise. Docs and whiteboards made in meetings are free through February 10, 2027. Letting Claude use your connected tools (like sending a Slack message) during a meeting counts toward usage and can cost your org.