Extending Claude: Build Plugins & Connectors

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Extending Claude: Build Plugins & Connectors

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Wed, Jun 24, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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Wed, Jun 24, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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113 students

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Build & Ship Agent Skills for Your Product

Emmanuel Paraskakis

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What you'll learn

How Claude users can leverage external tools and extensions

What add-ons work well and how different user personas benefit from Connectors & Plugins as part of your product.

MCP & Connectors give access to external data

How MCP helps bring your product into Claude and how to choose between MCP, APIs, and CLI. Explore top use cases.

Skills & Plugins automate processes

Skills can be a core part of your product’s experience and Plugins take them even further. Each belongs on your roadmap.

Choosing between Anthropic's native & 3rd party directories

Each offers different distribution advantages. Learn what it takes to submit to each and how to avoid the pitfalls.

Why this topic matters

Your most engaged customers are in Claude, Cowork and Claude Code. Anthropic has built the protocols (Skills, MCP) and directories where you can submit your products as Plugins and Connectors for discovery and use by millions of your users and prospects. Learn which use cases are best suited for these extensions and what you need to know to build, submit, and promote them to your audience.

You'll learn from

Emmanuel Paraskakis

3x VP Product (Apiary, Swagger, Oracle) | 1.3M APIs | Founder, Level 250 | Agent-ready APIs & MCP

I’m Emmanuel, 3x VP Product, now a founder at Level 250.

If you built or used APIs in the past 15 years, chances are you’ve used one of my products:

I’ve led some of the most influential API tools: Apiary (550,000+ APIs), Swagger (750,000+ APIs) and Oracle’s first Cloud-Native API Gateway. Before that, I built large B2B API programs at Verisk, Moody’s, and Precisely.

Today, I advise Fortune 500 CEOs and AI-forward startup founders on API Strategy, Developer Experience, MCP products, and AI agent readiness.

I'm also a member of OpenAPI and a featured speaker at apidays and other global technology conferences.

My passion is helping others build products, which is why I also teach on Maven: to share my lessons learned and help Product Managers and Engineers fast-track their careers.

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