Tag Claude from Anthropic: AI Joins Slack

Tag Claude from Anthropic: AI Joins Slack

Anthropic introduces Claude Tag in research preview, a “always-on Claude” that resides in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. This new feature — which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights in discussions and assign tasks — will be available in beta for Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.

Claude Tag is an evolution of several existing integrations. Users can already send direct messages to @Claude in Slack or tag him in channels for on-demand assistance, and Claude Code in Slack redirects coding tasks mentioned in channels to full coding sessions on the web, posting updates in the discussion thread.

However, Claude Tag adds a layer of persistent context and memory that would be difficult to maintain with previous tools. “As Claude follows the thread of discussion, he learns more and more about the work,” states a release from Anthropic. “Claude can also automatically gather facts from other parts of the organization, if he has been granted permission to read other channels.”

With Claude Tag, everyone in a given Slack channel can access a single Claude identity, meaning “anyone can see what Claude has worked on and can pick up the conversation where the last person left off.” System administrators will specify which tools, information, and channels Claude can access, and each Claude identity will remain limited to the channels defined by the administrators, so a Claude configured for legal work cannot inject memories into the engineering channel, for example.

When a specific task is assigned, Claude Tag breaks the task down into steps and works through them using the tools available to him, responding in a Slack thread with what he has created. But Claude Tag also has an ambient mode that proactively intervenes in the discussion to keep your team informed, flagging items from across the organization, and following up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten.

Anthropic claims this gives the impression of “working with a real colleague — one who can produce work in view of all, with a much greater context and understanding than before.”

This context is an increasingly critical part of enterprise deployments, and Anthropic is not the only company focusing on it. Microsoft has also introduced Graph, expressed through Copilot and Work IQ. Snowflake and Databricks position their platforms as the back-end support containing tacit organizational knowledge that agents can access. Glean is also building an intelligence layer that understands the context of the business and sits between the model and the company’s data.