Anthropic puts Claude in your Slack channel as a real teammate
Anthropic shipped Claude Tag, and the framing is the interesting part. This isn't Claude-in-a-chatbox. You tag @Claude in a Slack channel like you'd tag a coworker, hand it a task, and it goes off and works on it while you do other things. One Claude per channel, visible to everyone, building context from the channel's whole history and whatever data sources you connect.
The detail that jumps out is ambient mode. With it on, Claude doesn't just wait to be tagged. It watches the channel, flags relevant information, and follows up on tasks that stalled. That's a real shift from 'tool you call' to 'colleague who's paying attention.' Admins get fine-grained control over which tools, data, and channels each Claude can touch, which is the part enterprises actually needed before they'd turn this on.
Anthropic dropped a number to sell it: 65% of their own product team's code is now written by their internal version of this. That's the same self-report drumbeat they've been running all spring, Claude writing the majority of Anthropic's code, now packaged as a product you can buy. It's in beta for Enterprise and Team customers and replaces the old Claude in Slack app over a 30-day migration.
The bigger picture: every agent vendor is racing to live where the work already happens. Slack, not a separate app. The agent that's already in the room, with the context, beats the one you have to go open a tab for. Details at anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag.
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The detail that jumps out is ambient mode. With it on, Claude doesn't just wait to be tagged. It watches the channel, flags relevant information, and follows up on tasks that stalled. That's a real shift from 'tool you call' to 'colleague who's paying attention.' Admins get fine-grained control over which tools, data, and channels each Claude can touch, which is the part enterprises actually needed before they'd turn this on.
Anthropic dropped a number to sell it: 65% of their own product team's code is now written by their internal version of this. That's the same self-report drumbeat they've been running all spring, Claude writing the majority of Anthropic's code, now packaged as a product you can buy. It's in beta for Enterprise and Team customers and replaces the old Claude in Slack app over a 30-day migration.
The bigger picture: every agent vendor is racing to live where the work already happens. Slack, not a separate app. The agent that's already in the room, with the context, beats the one you have to go open a tab for. Details at anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag.
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