“Signing in to your company’s plugins one by one is annoying”: Anthropic’s fix puts Claude in the identity business
Anthropic is now letting businesses automatically connect employees to approved Claude plugins, saving staff from having to sign in to The post “Signing in to your company’s plugins one by one is annoying”: Anthropic’s fix puts Claude in the identity business appeared first on The New Stack .
Anthropic is streamlining access to company-approved Claude plugins for employees, eliminating the need for individual sign-ins and authorizations. This new feature enhances user experience and simplifies access management. Anthropic's Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension, launched in June, enables central management of MCP connections through existing identity providers.
Okta was the first to adopt this extension, but limited support from other providers has left many organizations still requiring manual authorizations. Now, Claude itself can issue signed identity assertions for participating MCP services, allowing businesses to enable automatic connections without relying on their identity provider's EMA support.
Implementing this feature is straightforward for Team and Enterprise customers, with Anthropic providing guidance for developers creating compatible MCP servers. The beta version of this feature is now available to businesses, with Claude taking on the role of identity verification when employees access third-party services through the plugins.
Anthropic encourages other companies to adopt the feature, noting that it can enhance user experience and simplify access management.
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