Agentic AI
Claude Desktop
Anthropic's desktop app for macOS and Windows that provides a full Claude chat interface plus first-class MCP server support. Reference implementation for consuming public and private MCP servers.
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For developers
Call this framework and its tools from your own agent via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed, Continue, and the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Where this fits
Claude Desktop is part of the Agentic AI vocabulary used in the Generative AI Maturity Framework. See the full glossary for the complete set of 149 defined terms, or take the free maturity assessment to see where your organisation stands.