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Claude Metal connectorWhat Claude can do in your Metal account.

The Claude Metal connector exposes 24 tools. 23 read your firm's companies, deals, documents, contacts, lists and workflows, 1 writes: it starts a configured workflow. Here is what Claude can find, what it can launch, and what your admin must enable first.

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Overview

What changes when Claude can search Metal

Your firm's history is spread across company profiles, deal records, documents, contacts and recorded activities. With this connector, you ask Claude and it searches your firm's Metal data itself, with the same permissions you have in the app. Metal adds that runs of firm workflows started from Claude also appear in the app.

Rebuild the context on a target. Gather everything on one company: search_companies finds it by name, get_company pulls the full profile, and get_activities lists past meetings, calls and interactions.

Check what the documents actually say. search_documents looks through document content, then get_document returns the extracted text line by line so Claude can quote it.

Launch the firm's own process. When a workflow configured in Metal is the next step, get_workflow shows what input it expects and run_workflow starts it, with the run then visible in Metal.

Where it stops. The directory sheet shows one action among 24 tools; Metal's own docs describe many more, opened by scopes and admin settings. Built-in experiences such as DDQ Solver cannot be launched from Claude at all. And nothing fires by itself: no new deal or document wakes Claude up. Recurring jobs belong to an automation tool, a different line of work gathered on the Integrations hub.

Vocabulary

Five words before you connect

The vocabulary of Claude's settings, glossed once.

Connector
The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
Tool
One named thing a connector lets Claude do on that account. Claude picks the tools it needs; the directory sheet lists all of them by name.
Authorization
Metal's own sign-in screen, where you grant the access Claude will use and pick the organization. Given once per person, revocable later.
Approval
The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes your account, shown in the chat at the right moment.
MCP
The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Connect

Connect Metal to Claude in three steps

  1. 01

    Find Metal

    In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Metal in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector for the organization before members can sign in.

  2. 02

    Sign in to Metal

    Click Connect on its row and log in with your Metal account in the window Metal opens. If you belong to several organizations, Metal asks which one to connect. If the link breaks, use Disconnect.

  3. 03

    Read the authorization screen

    Check what the screen asks before you approve. It is Metal's screen, not Claude's, and it decides what the access covers. You can withdraw the access later from the Metal side as well.

Tools

The 24 tools, grouped by what they do

Metal gives Claude 24 tools: 23 that read your account, 1 that change something in it.

Two groups: 23 tools that read your firm's data and one that starts a workflow. Tool names stay in English, as Claude shows them.

  • 23 read
  • 1 write

What Claude reads (23)

23 tools

Twenty-three tools that search and open records without touching them.

list_companies

Lists companies using structured filters only, such as sector, tag, team or location, with no free-text query involved.

When it helps
you need every company matching a sector, tag, team or location, with no name in mind.
Watch out
for a name you half remember, the search tool fits better.

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search_companies

Finds companies by name using a mix of semantic and keyword matching, so a partial or approximate name still surfaces the right record. The matching runs on company names only, not on the rest of the profile.

When it helps
you only remember part of a company's name.

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list_company_tags

Returns the company tags your firm uses, with their exact IDs, so Claude can filter companies on the right tag instead of guessing its spelling.

When it helps
you want to filter companies by tag and need the exact tag first.

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get_company

Retrieves the full profile of one company from its ID, the record Claude works from once the search has found the right match. It takes the company ID that a search or a filtered list returns.

When it helps
the search found the right company and you want its full profile.

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get_document

Returns the extracted text of a document by line number, which lets Claude quote a passage precisely and point to where it sits.

When it helps
you need the exact wording of a passage in a document, with the line it sits on.

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search_documents

Looks through the content of documents, or lists them by type and date, across what your account can see in Metal.

When it helps
you want the documents of a given type from a given period, or those that mention a topic.
Watch out
results stop at the documents your permissions already show you.

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search_people

Finds contacts by name, title, company or email, so Claude can find the right person among your firm's contacts. It searches your contacts, which are distinct from the Metal users that search_users finds.

When it helps
you know a contact's title and company but not their name.

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search_users

Looks up colleagues who use Metal by name or email. A query is required, so this is for finding someone specific rather than browsing everyone.

When it helps
you need to find one specific colleague in Metal by name or email.

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get_user

Retrieves one Metal user from an ID, typically after a search or when another record points to that person as an owner. It returns a Metal user, a colleague with an account, not an outside contact.

When it helps
another record gives a user ID and you want to know who it is.

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list_teams

Returns the teams of your organization with names and IDs, which Claude then reuses to filter deals and companies by team. The list covers every team in your organization, not only yours.

When it helps
you want deals or companies filtered down to one team.

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get_team

Retrieves a single team from its ID, the step after the team list when Claude needs that team's own record rather than a name. It takes the team ID that list_teams returns.

When it helps
you have a team's ID and want that team's record.

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list_workflows

Lists the workflows Claude can see, with their IDs, page by page. Metal notes that it includes your organization's configured workflows plus visible Metal-provided global ones.

When it helps
you want to know which workflows exist before asking Claude to run one.

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get_workflow

Gives an overview of one workflow's definition, optionally for a given version, including what it expects as input, so nothing is launched with a missing field.

When it helps
you want to check which fields a workflow requires before it is launched.

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list_workflow_runs

Finds workflow runs filtered by the record they concern, their status or dates, with pagination for long histories. A run can be looked up from the record it concerns, by that record's type and ID.

When it helps
you want to know whether a workflow already ran on a given record, and with which status.

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get_workflow_run

Returns a run's status and outputs, with shortcuts to view steps, errors, artifacts or citations, so Claude can report in plain terms what the workflow produced.

When it helps
a run is finished and you want its outputs, or its errors if it failed.

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search_deals

Searches or filters deals, with the text query optional when filters are enough, so Claude can answer pipeline questions directly.

When it helps
you want the deals that match some filters without typing a query.
Watch out
custom deal fields can be used as filters once Claude knows their definitions.

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get_deal

Pulls up one deal's full record from its ID, once a search has pointed to the right deal. Metal describes it as the full deal record, not an excerpt.

When it helps
the search found the right deal and you want its full record.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

get_person

Retrieves the complete profile of one contact from an ID, after a search has found the right person. It returns a contact record, as opposed to a Metal user account.

When it helps
the search found the right contact and you want their full profile.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

list_lists

Returns the lists your organization keeps in Metal so Claude knows which ones exist before opening any. Metal calls them resource lists; their rows come through a separate tool.

When it helps
you remember that a list exists but not its exact name.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

get_list

Retrieves a list's metadata and column schema. It does not include the rows themselves; those come from the entries tool, which Claude calls next.

When it helps
you want to know which columns a list tracks before reading its rows.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

get_list_entries

Reads a list's rows page by page through a cursor, so Claude can work through long lists in successive pages. It is the tool that holds the row data get_list leaves out.

When it helps
a list is long and you want all of its rows read, page by page.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

get_activities

Returns the meetings, calls and interactions recorded for a company, so Claude can lay out the history of contact with it. It works at the level of one company.

When it helps
you want the meetings, calls and interactions recorded with one company.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

get_activity

Opens one activity in full, with its participants, linked deals and attached documents, so Claude can recount one interaction in full detail. It takes the ID of a single activity, such as one listed for a company.

When it helps
you want the participants, linked deals and documents of one specific interaction.

Sourcedocs.metal.ai · October 1, 2026 ↗

What Claude starts (1)

1 tool

One tool that launches a workflow in Metal. No source describes a confirmation specific to it, so the general rule below applies.

run_workflow

Approval: see the rule

Launches a configured workflow with the input it requires. The response gives the immediate status, the run appears in Metal, and Claude reads the outputs once it completes.

What Claude asks for
no source describes a confirmation for this tool; Claude's general approval rule covers it.
When it helps
a workflow configured in Metal is the next step on a record.

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Approvals

What Claude asks before acting

By default, Claude stops and asks before every action it takes on an account for you. Metal's own guide adds that Claude requests permission to use its tools on first use.

On Team and Enterprise, workspace owners decide whether members may let some actions through without a prompt each time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, keeping reads and closing writes for example, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Metal states that access is scoped to your user and organization and respects your app permissions. The official per-tool label, read-only versus write, only appears in a connected account's settings.

Plans

Which plans include it

Not one of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. Connector by connector, that answer is published nowhere.

The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector for the organization before members can sign in. Metal's admin switch and your OAuth scopes are separate conditions on Metal's side. For the current state on your account, check the connector's sheet in the official directory.

Limits

Where this connector stops

A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you; nothing starts when a deal moves stage or a document lands.

Only Metal documents this connector: Claude's help center has no page for it, so the limits below are Metal's. The 24 tools on the sheet are an observed floor: Metal's docs announce 99 tools when the right scopes are granted, including authoring tools for lists, dashboards, workflows and tasks. The directory badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic writes on every sheet that it does not choose a publisher's tools. For other connectors and automation pages, see the Integrations hub.

Need help

Need help connecting Metal to Claude?

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FAQ

Questions about the Claude Metal connector

01What can Claude do with the Metal connector?
Claude can search and read your firm's Metal data while it answers you. The 24 tools on the directory sheet cover companies and their tags, documents and their extracted text, contacts, Metal users and teams, deals, lists and their rows, company activities, and workflows with their past runs and results. One of them, run_workflow, starts a configured workflow. Everything respects the permissions your Metal account already has, nothing more. Ask it in plain words.
02Can Claude change deals or records in Metal?
Through the directory sheet, Claude can do one thing that acts: start a configured workflow, whose run then shows in Metal. The other 23 tools only search and read. Metal's own documentation describes more tools, including authoring tools for lists, dashboards, workflows and tasks when the right scopes are granted, but they are not on the public sheet today. Treat the sheet as a floor, not a ceiling. Metal adds that the exact tools available depend on OAuth scopes, organization settings and app permissions.
03Does Claude ask before running a Metal workflow?
By default, Claude asks for confirmation before any action it takes on an account for you. No source describes a confirmation specific to run_workflow, so that default rule covers it. According to Metal's guide for Claude, a permission request shows up the first time its tools are used, and you approve it then. On Team and Enterprise, workspace owners also decide which actions members may let through without being prompted each time.
04Which Claude plans is the Metal connector available on?
No official source publishes plan availability connector by connector, and none of the 819 directory sheets shows it. The general rule says remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, and that on Team and Enterprise an Owner or Primary Owner enables each one before members can connect. Metal's own admin switch is a separate condition. The connector's sheet in the directory shows its current state for your account.
05Does Claude see every deal in our Metal workspace?
No. Metal states that access is scoped to your Metal user and organization and respects the same permissions you have in the app, so a deal you cannot open stays closed to Claude too. If you belong to several organizations, you choose which one to connect at sign-in. On Team and Enterprise, a Claude owner can also restrict what the connector may do across the workspace, and a member cannot lift that restriction alone.
06Why can Claude not run DDQ Solver?
Because Metal explains that built-in productized workflows such as DDQ Solver are separate in-app experiences, not workflow records. They have no run path from the API or from Claude, and they do not appear in the workflow list Claude sees. To use them, open Workflows in the Metal app. What Claude can launch are the canvas workflows your firm configured, plus visible Metal-provided global ones, which run under your permissions.
07Claude or an automation tool for Metal?
They do different jobs, so choose by use. Claude with this connector answers in the moment: brief me on this company, find the clause in that deck, start our screening workflow on this deal. An automation tool reacts to events or a schedule, for example running a check every time a new deal is created, which this connector never does on its own. For research and preparation in conversation, Claude fits; for recurring triggers, automation.