Anthropic brings Claude Tag to Slack for Team and Enterprise users

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Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a Slack-first beta that lets teams bring Claude into shared channels and hand it work with a simple @Claude mention.

The feature is available now for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Admins can connect Claude to selected Slack channels, tools, data, and codebases, then let people in those channels delegate tasks without setting up their own separate agent.

That makes Claude Tag different from a private chatbot. Everyone in a channel sees the same Claude working in the same thread, so a teammate can follow the task, add context, or pick up the conversation later.

Claude can work from channel context

Claude Tag can read the shared context in the channels where it has been added, remember relevant information, and plan work for later. Anthropic says it can also act proactively when “ambient” behavior is enabled, such as surfacing a stalled thread or posting when a job is done.

The examples are aimed at real team work: turning a thread into a doc or ticket, pulling metrics, fixing a bug and opening a draft PR, preparing for a customer call, or watching a channel for alerts.

Anthropic’s video shows the basic idea in action: Claude joins the conversation where the team is already working, then reports back in the thread.

Anthropic is also tying this to its coding push. The company says its internal version of Claude Tag now creates 65% of its product team’s code, including much of Claude Tag itself. That does not mean every team will get the same result, but it shows where Anthropic wants Claude to sit: inside the work, not beside it.

That fits Anthropic’s wider June push around more capable Claude workflows, from Claude Fable 5 to now a shared Slack agent for teams.

Admins control what Claude can reach

Claude Tag uses an organization-controlled identity, not a random user’s personal login. Owners choose which tools, repositories, and channels Claude can access. Anthropic says those memories and permissions stay scoped to the channels admins define.

That part matters because agent tools are becoming more capable. The broader shift is already visible in products like ChatGPT Agent, where AI systems move from answering questions to taking actions across connected tools.

For Claude Tag, channel work is billed to the organization. Direct messages still use the individual user’s Claude account, and admins can set organization-wide and per-channel spend limits.

The old Claude in Slack is being replaced

Claude Tag starts in Slack, but Anthropic says it wants to expand the idea to more places where teams work. For now, Slack is the main launch surface.

The existing Claude in Slack experience is also being phased into Claude Tag, so Team and Enterprise admins will need to move to the new setup if they want the newer shared-channel workflow.

This is another sign that AI coding and agent tools are moving into normal work apps instead of staying inside separate dashboards. OpenAI has been pushing in the same direction with Codex workflows that may soon reach the iPhone. Anthropic’s version starts with a familiar team habit: tag someone in Slack, give them the task, and let the rest of the channel see what happens.

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