Anthropic Unveils Claude Tag for Slack
Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Tag, a new feature that lets teams tag its AI assistant directly within Slack channels, allowing the assistant to act as a team member with access to selected channels and tools. The system decomposes tasks into stages, executes them using the available tools, and posts the work product in threaded replies. Supported tasks include writing or merging pull requests, running data‑analysis jobs, and assisting in incident resolution.
Claude Tag builds contextual awareness by continuously following channel conversations, removing the need for users to repeat explanations. When ambient behavior is enabled, Claude proactively flags relevant information across channels and follows up on unresolved threads. Within any given channel, a single Claude instance interacts with all participants, enabling colleagues to pick up conversations where others left off.
Anthropic reported that 65 % of its product team’s code now originates from its internal version of Claude Tag. System administrators can control Claude’s access to data and tools on a per‑channel basis, and separate instances maintain distinct memories and permissions for different use cases such as sales or engineering.
Claude Tag is available today in beta for customers on the Claude Enterprise and Team plans who use Slack. The service runs on Opus 4.8 and replaces the existing Claude integration in the Slack app. Anthropic indicated that the feature will be extended to additional collaboration platforms in the future.