Anthropic upgrades Claude’s free tier with file handling, connectors and skills

The free tier on Claude is leveling up, getting the most popular paid features. (Picture: Anthropic)
Using Sonnet 4.5, these features were previously only available on the paid tiers.

But now, Claude can create and manipulate Office files and PDFs for free.

Connectors are also available, which make it possible to link to Slack, Canva and others.

Anthropic is also making Skills free. These are saved prompts and workflows as a kind of template, that can be invoked at any time for repetitive tasks.

Finally, «Compaction» is becoming available on the free tier, which «summarizes earlier context automatically, so long conversations can continue without starting over.»

Together, these comprise «Claude’s most-used features,» Anthropic says.

Read more: Launch thread, writeup on Engadget.