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Amazon Opens Seller Assistant to Claude and Quick

Sellers can now manage listings, inventory and pricing from their own AI tools — Amazon is plugging Seller Assistant into Claude and Quick.

On 23 September 2026, at its Accelerate seller conference, Amazon opened Seller Assistant to third-party AI tools for the first time. A new Selling Partner plugin brings the assistant into Amazon Quick and, in beta, Anthropic's Claude, and sellers can now set up always-on "workflows" that keep running in the background. Amazon says 90% of its selling partners already use third-party AI tools to run their businesses — this move meets them where they already work.

What changed

Seller Assistant launched in 2023 as a chat companion and gained agentic capabilities in September 2025 — the ability to reason, plan and act with a seller's permission. This release adds three things. Persistent memory: the assistant now remembers each seller's pricing patterns, inventory cycles and growth goals, and that memory follows them across Seller Central, Quick and Claude instead of resetting between sessions. Workflows: a seller describes a task in plain language and sets guardrails, and the automation runs continuously. Amazon's examples include "alert me if any of my top 10 products drop below a 4-star rating and draft a response plan," or monitoring a category for competitive openings and then adjusting pricing and refreshing listings. And the plugin itself: it connects a seller's Amazon data — listing contributions, real-time performance metrics, inventory levels and sales analytics — directly to the external agent, which can then act on the account the same way Seller Assistant does inside Seller Central.

Who is affected

The plugin is live in beta for Amazon's US stores, with international expansion to follow. Every primary account holder globally can claim a free 12-month Amazon Quick Plus subscription until 31 December 2026, plus two co-worker seats. Claude users can connect their account in roughly 60 seconds with no coding. Amazon is explicit that this changes distribution, not data handling: seller data stays within Amazon's infrastructure, every action needs human approval, and every action is logged with a complete audit trail.

What to do

If you already run part of your operation through Claude or another assistant, this removes the manual step of exporting and pasting Amazon data. The practical first move is to connect and test the prebuilt templates — account health, order summaries, pricing trends and product-expansion opportunities — before building custom workflows. For the buy-box defence and repricing you already automate, treat the plugin as a way to consolidate signals rather than a replacement, and keep approval-on for every action while you learn its behaviour. Sellers outside the US should watch for the international rollout; the 12-month Quick Plus offer is global even where the plugin itself is not yet live. The direction is unmistakable: Amazon is betting sellers will run their business through whichever agent they trust, and it wants its own data and guardrails inside that agent rather than letting sellers bridge the gap with scrapers and spreadsheets.

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