Availability
Claude Science is in beta.
On the Claude Team plan for scientists, members can download Claude Science and sign in with their claude.ai account without any admin action. An Owner or Primary Owner can turn Claude Science off or change the other organization settings at any time in Organization settings > Claude Science. The PubMed, Clinical Trials, ChEMBL, and bioRxiv connectors aren’t added to your organization automatically (see Set up connectors).
If your organization has HIPAA compliance enabled, Claude Science app access is off by default, whatever your plan. You can turn it on, but usage isn’t covered under your Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and the app shouldn’t be used with protected health information (PHI). These organizations also start with stricter organization settings (see HIPAA organizations).
Turn on Claude Science
Go to Organization settings > Claude Science.Turn on the Enable for your organization toggle. The Turn on Claude Science dialog opens.
Complete each step of the dialog, described below, then select Turn on Claude Science. Nothing is saved until you do.
Review the organization settings below the toggle, which unlock once Claude Science is on.
Members with access can download Claude Science and sign in with their claude.ai account. You need an Owner or Primary Owner role to turn Claude Science on or off. If you have the Admin role, you can add members and assign seats, but you can’t turn on Claude Science. Ask an Owner or Primary Owner to turn it on.
Review role access
This step shows who gets access once Claude Science is on. On Team plans, everyone in your organization gets access automatically. On Enterprise plans, members in the built-in roles (User, Admin, Owner, and Primary Owner) get access automatically, and the step lists any custom roles that already include the Claude Science capability. To change which custom roles have access, select Configure in role settings, or continue and adjust roles later.Set up connectors
Turn on the tools and data sources your team will use in Claude Science. You can change all of it later. Under Featured connectors, the Claude Science local connectors row covers the connectors that are built by Anthropic, ship with the app, and run on each member’s computer. Expand it to turn individual connectors on or off for the whole organization; you can change this later under Featured connectors and skills, and members can also turn individual local connectors off for themselves in the app. The PubMed, Clinical Trials, ChEMBL, and bioRxiv rows are connectors Anthropic hosts. They start selected, and turning Claude Science on adds the selected ones to Organization settings > Connectors for your organization, which makes them available to members in Claude Science and in claude.ai. Under From the Claude connector directory, you can select additional life-sciences connectors, which are added to your organization the same way. On the Claude Team plan for scientists, Claude Science is on without the Turn on Claude Science dialog, so the PubMed, Clinical Trials, ChEMBL, and bioRxiv connectors aren’t added to your organization automatically. To add them, go to Organization settings > Claude Science and turn on their switches under Featured connectors (see Featured connectors and skills). The PubMed, Clinical Trials, ChEMBL, and bioRxiv rows and the directory list are read-only if your organization has HIPAA compliance enabled or your role can’t add connectors for the organization; add those connectors from Organization settings > Connectors after enabling. The switches for the local connectors still work, and in an organization with HIPAA compliance enabled they start off so you can turn on the ones you have reviewed. By continuing, you represent that your team has the necessary rights to access these resources and you authorize Claude to do so on their behalf. You can review terms in Settings.Who gets access after you enable
Turning on the Enable for your organization toggle controls whether Claude Science is accessible to your organization at all. Adding members or assigning seats doesn’t turn it on. Once it’s on, roles control which members can use it: Built-in roles include the Claude Science entitlement, so those members can download and sign in immediately.Custom roles (Enterprise plans only) need the Claude Science capability turned on. Members on a custom role without the capability see the app as unavailable even after you enable it for the organization.
A custom role whose Capability access setting is All capabilities already includes Claude Science. The All generally available setting excludes beta capabilities such as Claude Science, so for those roles also turn on the Claude Science capability. This is the same pattern as other Claude apps you enable per organization. In a custom role, the Claude Science capability has seven capabilities under it, one for each feature you can limit by role, such as SSH hosts, Modal, and memory. Turning on the Claude Science capability turns these on too, and you can then turn off the ones that role shouldn’t have (see Capabilities in custom roles). Any that goes with an organization setting you can’t turn on stays off.