Anthropic · 2026-07-22 · notable
Anthropic Economic Index Connector — query AI labor data inside Claude
Anthropic ships a Claude connector for the Anthropic Economic Index. Users ask questions like 'which occupations use AI the most?' or 'how have automation patterns changed?' and Claude answers from the underlying dataset in claude.ai.
Anthropic's new Claude connector turns the Economic Index into a chat interface — pick a question, get a sourced answer.
What is it?
The Anthropic Economic Index Connector plugs the Economic Index dataset directly into Claude. Anyone with claude.ai can enable it from the connectors menu in about a minute, then ask questions in plain English — which occupations use AI most, what people in a given state use Claude for, how automation patterns are shifting year over year — and Claude answers from the underlying data.
How does it work?
The connector exposes the Economic Index tables to Claude as a tool. Ask a question, and Claude picks the relevant slice, runs the query, and shows the answer with a link to the source data. It works with any Claude model in any conversation, and the underlying datasets stay freely downloadable on Anthropic's website for people who want to run their own analysis.
Why does it matter?
The Economic Index has been the main public window into how AI actually gets used at work, but the raw tables are unwieldy. The connector lets journalists, policy analysts, and researchers explore the same data in a chat window, and it doubles as a live example of what MCP-style data connectors look like inside Claude for anyone building similar tools for their own datasets.
Who is it for?
journalists, policy analysts, and researchers tracking AI's labor-market effects
Try it
Open claude.ai → Connectors → enable 'Anthropic Economic Index'