Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, a Shared AI Teammate for Slack
Tag @Claude in a channel and it works through tasks using your team's tools and data - with memory, async execution, and one shared context for the whole team.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag on June 23. Tag @Claude in a Slack channel, give it a task in plain English, and Claude breaks the work into stages, executes them using whatever tools it has access to, and replies in the thread when done. Anthropic's product team now writes 65% of its code through their internal version of Claude Tag - the company is using itself as proof of concept.
What @Claude Does Inside a Channel
Most AI tools in Slack are per-user and stateless - every team member gets a separate conversation with no shared context. Claude Tag works differently. One Claude exists per channel, visible and accessible to the whole team. Any member can pick up a thread from where someone else left off, or see what Claude is currently working on.
Claude builds context as it stays in a channel. Teams do not have to re-explain the codebase or project structure each session - Claude already knows it. Enable ambient mode, and Claude becomes proactive: flagging relevant information from connected channels without being tagged and following up on threads that have gone quiet without a resolution.
Set a task and walk away. Claude can work over hours or days, pursuing a project autonomously while the team focuses elsewhere. Anthropic says its teams now spend more time delegating work to multiple Claudes in parallel than they do on direct execution - a shift from AI as assistant to AI as worker.
Available Today for Enterprise and Team Customers
Claude Tag launches in beta today. Enterprise and Team customers on Slack get access first. Admins connect it to the workspace, assign it to specific channels, grant tool and codebase access, and set monthly token spend limits. Claude keeps separate memory and permissions per channel configuration - an engineering Claude does not pass context to a sales Claude, and cannot access sales data.
Claude Tag replaces the old Claude in Slack app. Existing admins have 30 days to migrate, and Anthropic is offering a launch credit to eligible Enterprise and Team organizations so teams can try it before committing spend. For teams already using Claude Code in the terminal, adding @Claude to the channel where design decisions actually get made could close a loop that individual coding tools have always left open. Claude Tag runs on Opus 4.8.
Anthropic frames Claude Tag as the beginning of an evolution of Claude Code - more proactive, and designed for a full team rather than a single developer. No timeline yet for expanding beyond Slack.
