Claude Socket connectorWhat Claude can do in your Socket account.
The Claude Socket connector exposes 1 tool: 1 read, 0 write. That single tool scores open-source packages for security risk. Below: what it tells you, what it quietly skips, why it lives on Claude Desktop only, and who can switch it off.
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What changes when a developer adds a dependency
Without the connector, checking a library means leaving the conversation to look it up. With it, you ask Claude "is this package safe to add?" and it queries Socket itself, then reads you five scores per package (supply chain, quality, maintenance, vulnerability and license), each from 0 to 100, higher being better.
Vet a new library in the middle of a review. A pull request adds three packages. You paste the names, depscore returns their scores in one go, and Claude points out the one that lags on maintenance.
Audit a whole manifest. Paste the dependency list of a project and ask for the weakest links. Socket covers npm, PyPI, cargo, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems and Go Modules, among others.
Compare two candidates. Hesitating between two date libraries? Ask for both, side by side, and let the license and vulnerability scores settle the tie.
Now, what the directory sheet does not say. The tool never flags a package it does not know: it simply leaves it out of the answer, so a missing name is a warning sign, not a clean bill of health. Results also come back in Socket's order, not yours. The connector is a desktop extension, so it runs in Claude Desktop only. And nothing fires by itself: no scan starts when someone pushes code. A check that runs on every commit belongs to an automation tool, a different trade; the Integrations hub covers that side.
The vocabulary, in one minute
Five words you will meet while plugging Socket in.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and a service you already use, so Claude can work with it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks what it needs mid-answer, and the directory sheet lists each one by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of the service itself, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Given once per person, and revocable.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes an account, shown in the chat at the right moment.
- MCP
- The shared standard every connector is built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Socket.
Plug Socket into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Socket in Claude Desktop
Socket ships as a desktop extension, so open Claude Desktop. In the settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and find Socket. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner must switch it on before members can use it.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row. If Socket opens its own sign-in window, log in there. When the link breaks later, use Disconnect, then plug the extension back in from the same row.
- 03
Check what you are granting
Read any authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to Socket, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. Access you grant there can also be withdrawn later from the service's own side.
The single tool, and what it returns
Socket gives Claude 1 tool: 1 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
One tool, and it only consults Socket's data. Its name stays as Claude displays it, in English.
- 1 read
What Claude reads (1)
1 toolOne tool that looks up package scores without changing anything.
depscore
Queries Socket for one or several packages and returns five scores for each of them: supply chain, quality, maintenance, vulnerability and license. Each is a whole number from 0 to 100, and higher is better, so a weak spot shows at a glance.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude pauses and asks for your go-ahead before each action it carries out on an account for you. The request appears in the conversation, when it matters.
Here, the sheet only exposes a lookup, so that prompt has little to do. The organization rules still apply. On Team and Enterprise, owners decide whether members may let some actions through without being asked each time. They can also cap what a connector may do across the organization, keeping reads and closing writes, and nobody overrides that from their own account. And Claude works with your rights and nothing beyond them.
Which plans it works on
Among the 819 sheets of the official directory, none shows availability plan by plan. That answer, connector by connector, is not published anywhere.
The general rule is public. Remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, while desktop extensions such as Socket install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner switches a connector on for the organization before members can connect. For this one's current state, open Socket's sheet in the official directory.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls this tool while it answers you: nothing runs when a lockfile changes or a new version ships.
By default the sheet only exposes reading, which is an observed floor rather than a promise: an admin can open actions no public sheet lists. The partner badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic writes on every sheet that it neither picks a publisher's tools nor vouches for how they behave. All the details here come from Socket's own repository, since neither Claude's help center nor Anthropic's developer docs cover it, and nothing guarantees the installed extension runs that exact version. Another sheet worth a look: the Claude asana connector.
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