Claude Tag wants to become your Slack teammate and it’s not just a chatbot window

Anthropic just made Claude a member of your Slack workspace. The company has launched Claude Tag, a new feature that lets teams tag the AI in a channel to delegate tasks without moving into a separate chatbot window. It can follow the context of approved Slack channels, use connected tools, data sources, codebases, and return its work in a thread once finished. 

Claude becomes a shared teammate in Slack

Most workplace AI tools require users to copy context into chat, explain the task, and manually share the result with colleagues. Claude Tag aims to remove this friction and is built around the idea of AI as a more proactive and collaborative tool rather than a one-person chatbot. 

Anyone in a permitted Slack channel can see what Claude is working on, continue an existing request, or add more context. Teams can ask it to investigate product metrics, work through support tickets, look into bugs, or handle coding tasks. Claude can also work through multi-step projects and work asynchronously—over hours or even days. 

Claude also builds memory from channel conversations over time so teams don’t have to repeatedly re-explain context every session.

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Admins have to carefully define what Claude can access. Separate Claude setups can also be created for different teams, eg: engineering users from accessing sales data. 

Claude Tag is available in beta for Enterprise and Teams starting today. It replaces the existing Claude in Slack app and admins can opt-in within 30 days to migrate. 

For teams already deep in Slack, this is the most friction-free way yet to weave AI into daily workflows.

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Source: Anthropic