knowledge-work-enterprise-search

---
name: knowledge-work-enterprise-search
description: "Use when you need to search across all your company's tools at once — email, chat, documents, and wikis — and get one synthesized answer without switching apps."
source: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/enterprise-search
generated: 2026-07-02T18:42:21.577Z
category: tool
audience: general
---

## When to use

- Answering a question that spans chat, email, and cloud docs in a single query
- Finding where a decision was made across scattered sources with attribution
- Generating a daily or weekly digest of activity across all connected tools
- Searching with filters like from:, in:, after: applied across each source's native syntax

## Key concepts

### search-strategy

Query decomposition and source-specific translation — breaks a natural-language question into targeted searches per source, handles ambiguity, and falls back gracefully when a source is unavailable.

### knowledge-synthesis

Merges results from every source into a single coherent answer with source attribution, instead of returning separate raw result lists.

### source-management

Each searchable source is an MCP connection — chat, email, cloud storage, wiki, project management, CRM, ticketing — added and managed in MCP settings.

### digest

Generates daily (--daily) or weekly (--weekly) rollups of activity, highlighting action items, decisions, and mentions of you, grouped by topic.

### search command

/enterprise-search:search runs one query across all connected sources, supporting from:, in:, after:, before:, and type: filters intelligently.

## API reference

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

Add Anthropic's knowledge-work plugin marketplace (one-time).

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

```
/plugin install enterprise-search@knowledge-work-plugins
```

Install the Enterprise Search plugin.

```
/plugin install enterprise-search@knowledge-work-plugins
```

## Gotchas

- Primarily designed for Cowork, Anthropic's agentic desktop app, though it also runs in Claude Code
- Answer completeness scales with connected sources — unconnected tools are simply invisible to the search
- Each source is a separate MCP connection you configure in MCP settings before it can be queried
- Filters are translated to each source's native query syntax, so results can vary by source capability
- Check CONNECTORS.md if you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to verify which tools are wired up

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