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# Anthropic

# Anthropic integration

Connect Anthropic with your Softr applications to bring Claude's AI writing, summarization, and classification into your workflows. Draft replies, condense long submissions, and route records automatically — all inside the apps your team and clients already use.

## Overview

The Softr Anthropic integration sends text from your workflows to Claude, Anthropic's family of AI models, and returns the result to use in any later step. Feed it form answers, database records, or content from previous actions, and get back polished writing, concise summaries, categories, or the response to any custom prompt you design.

In a typical Softr app, Anthropic slots in right after the things your users do: a client submits a brief through a form block, a member updates a record, a support request lands in your admin dashboard — and Claude turns that raw input into a summary, a draft reply, or a label your team can act on.

## Available Actions

### Custom prompt

Send your own prompt to Claude — with data mapped in from forms, records, or earlier steps — and use the response anywhere in your workflow.

### Write

Generate original text, from email drafts and product descriptions to personalized onboarding messages.

### Summarize

Condense long text — client briefs, meeting notes, support threads — into a short summary your team can scan.

### Categorize

Assign text to one of your predefined categories so submissions and records get routed to the right place automatically.

## Key Benefits

* **AI without code:** Add Claude to any workflow visually — no API calls, scripts, or prompt-engineering tooling to maintain.
* **Your own Anthropic account:** Connect with your API key and use your Anthropic plan, models, and usage limits directly.
* **Works on your app's data:** Map form answers, user profiles, and database records straight into prompts — and write the output back.
* **Consistent, structured output:** Use Categorize to get clean labels you can branch on, filter with, or store in a record.

## Example Use Cases

| Use Case                        | Description                                                                                              |
| :------------------------------ | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Triage form submissions**     | Categorize incoming requests from a Softr form and route each one to the right team or status.           |
| **Summarize client briefs**     | When a client submits a project brief through your portal, save a Claude summary alongside the record.   |
| **Draft support replies**       | Generate a suggested reply for each new support request and post it to your admin dashboard for review.  |
| **Personalized welcome emails** | When a new member signs up, write a tailored welcome message from their profile details and send it.     |
| **Clean up user content**       | Rewrite listing descriptions or member bios submitted by users into a consistent tone before publishing. |

## How to Connect Softr with Anthropic

1. Open your Softr app and go to **Workflows**.
2. Create a new workflow and add an Anthropic action.
3. Click **Connect Anthropic** and paste your Anthropic API key. You can create one in the [Anthropic Console](https://console.anthropic.com) under **API Keys**.
4. Choose the model and write your instructions or prompt.
5. Map fields from your Softr forms, records, or previous workflow steps into the prompt inputs.
6. Save and activate your workflow.