Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that learns from your Slack conversations

Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in research preview, an "always-on Claude" that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The new feature -- which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights in chats and assign tasks -- will begin in research preview, available through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. Claude Tag an evolution of several integrations that already exist. Users can already DM @Claude within Slack or tag it in channels for on-demand help, and Claude Code in Slack routes coding tasks from channel mentions to full coding sessions on the web, posting updates back into the thread. But Claude Tag adds a layer of persistent context and memory that would be difficult to maintain with previous tools. "As Claude follows along with its channel, it learns ever more about the work," reads a statement from Anthropic. "Claude can also automatically gather facts from elsewhere in the organization, if it's 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 been working on, and can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off." System administrators will specify which tools, information, and channels Claude can access, and each Claude identity will stay scoped to whichever channels the admins define, so that a Claude set up for legal work can't seed memories into the engineering channel, for example. When assigned a specific task, Claude Tag will break down the task into stages and works through them using whichever tools it has access to, responding in a Slack thread with what it has created. But Claude Tag also features an ambient mode that proactively jumps into the chat of its own accord to keep your team updated, flag things from across the organization, and follow up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten. Anthropic says this makes it feel like you're "working with a real colleague -- one that can produce work in public view, with far greater context and understanding than before." That context is an increasingly critical part of enterprise deployments, and Anthropic isn't the only company focused on it. Microsoft also has Graph, expressed through Copilot and Work IQ. Snowflake and Databricks are positioning their platforms as the back end support containing tacit organizational knowledge that agents can tap into. Glean is also building an intelligence layer that understands company context and sits between the model and the enterprise data.

Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Claude Tag puts an always-on AI coworker inside Slack. * Each Slack channel can get its own isolated Claude identity. * Claude can watch, remember, follow up, and complete tasks. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Tag, an always-on instance of Claude that lives inside Slack channels. The idea is that it becomes another participant in a group Slack channel where it can read the channel context, participate in threads, and interact with other channel participants almost as if it were just another employee in the group. Anthropic says 65% of its product team's code is now created by its internal version of Claude Tag. Anthropic says, "Claude Tag is an always-on Claude that works with your team in Slack the way you'd expect a teammate: reading the room, jumping into the thread, and moving work forward." Also: How to troubleshoot your PC problems with Copilot or ChatGPT - effectively Depending on how it's configured, Claude Tag can be solely reactive, or, if ambient behavior is enabled, it can proactively participate in the Slack channel. When users type @Claude in the channel, they can prompt Claude to take on a task, answer a question, or respond. Every user of the channel can see the responses just as they can see everything else in the channel. Because Claude Tag lives in Slack, Anthropic is modeling it on the Slack environment, which is team-centric. It's a semi-public chat environment in that everyone in the channel can talk to Claude, and Claude can talk to everyone in the channel. Multiplayer and agentic Anthropic calls this mode multiplayer. The idea is that there is a single instance of Claude interacting with the individual instances of each human in the channel. That one Claude instance will know what it said to Bob, what it said to Sue, and also what Bob said to Sue, and therefore can operate based on that common knowledge. Claude Tag is agentic. It can break tasks into stages, work through them using the tools it has access to, and report back in a Slack thread. Also: I tried Gmail's new Gemini Flows feature, and it's a huge filter improvement When ambient behavior is enabled, Claude can sit and watch the entire channel context, learn from channel activity over time, and gather details and facts from wherever it's been granted permission to explore and work. Anthropic says it doesn't report from private channels. According to the company, "Claude sets tasks for itself, allowing it to work autonomously." This is an asynchronous operation in that users can give Claude a task and then move on to other priorities while it continues to do its job behind the scenes. It's kind of like handing a team member an assignment in Slack and then waiting for them to come back later and tell you what they've accomplished. This version of Claude learns over time, constantly keeping track of what is entered into Slack. Anthropic says, "This means that users don't need to explain things to Claude from scratch over and over again." Claude can even act as a coach or a task master, depending on your perspective. If a thread has gone quiet or a task hasn't been completed by someone in the channel, it can follow up on those activities right in the channel. I'm not sure whether that intrigues me or kind of freaks me out. But I can definitely see the proactive productivity benefits for it, if it doesn't become too much of an annoyance. Scoped permissions shape channel-specific access Anthropic says that Claude Tag has been designed with teams and organizations in mind. The company is releasing it for Teams and Enterprise tiers only. The company says, "@Claude's access to sensitive data and task-specific tools can be very tightly scoped." Also: Why Anthropic suddenly pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone Each Slack channel gets its own Claude identity. Admins can scope Claude identities by channel and use case, and the individual Claudes don't share any information. This allows administrators to set up, for example, an @Claude for engineering and a @Claude for legal. The details between those two channels are not shared because each Claude is a separate identity and isolated from the other. Any tools or information that Claude is allowed to access will also be scoped per channel. While one Claude might have been granted access to financial reports, for example, the Claude in Engineering's chat could be set up to not have any access to that data whatsoever. As you might imagine, the second you start talking about multiple ambient Claudes, you start thinking about how much this will cost. If Claude is constantly "aware," it's going to be consuming tokens at a more prodigious pace. Also: Why AI tokens will send your enterprise cloud bill sky-high again However, administrators can set token spend limits for the organization overall, and for individual channels. While that won't limit Claude's consumption rate for tokens, it will limit the maximum spend, so financial types can at least predict spending levels for their new army of @Claude bots lurking in the company's Slack channels. Anthropic is also enabling administrative oversight, so administrators can not only set the token limits but they can view a log of everything that Claude has done. They can even find out who requested the individual tasks. If Bob in accounting is asking for a farm subsidy report presented in conversational Klingon, the company's bosses will be aware of it. *Qapla'!* Claude Tag is available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. Anthropic says its goal is to expand Claude Tag more widely over time, including beyond Slack. Claude Tag replaces the existing Claude in Slack app, and administrators can opt in within 30 days to migrate. Anthropic says it is issuing an introductory launch credit to eligible Enterprise and Team organizations. Would you want an always-on Claude watching your team's Slack channels, or would you rather keep AI interactions one-on-one? Let us know in the comments below. You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly update newsletter, and follow me on Twitter/X at @DavidGewirtz, on Facebook at Facebook.com/DavidGewirtz, on Instagram at Instagram.com/DavidGewirtz, on Bluesky at @DavidGewirtz.com, and on YouTube at YouTube.com/DavidGewirtzTV.

Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker

Anthropic is killing off its existing Claude in Slack app in favor of an always-on agentic alternative dubbed Claude Tag that will listen and learn from everything it's given access to. Claude Tag can now join organizational Slack instances "as a team member," according to Anthropic's announcement, where it will have access to whatever channels domain administrators decide upon, as well as the tools, data, and codebases they contain. Anyone in a channel with Claude Tag can tag @Claude to delegate tasks to the bot, which will be able to perform a variety of actions and build context about its environment based on what flows through a channel. "We see Claude Tag as the beginning of an evolution of Claude Code," Anthropic said. "It makes the model even more proactive, and it works better with a full team." Anthropic further explained that it's using Tag to write code (64 percent of what comes from the product team is apparently written by Tag) as well as "chase down product metrics and data, work through support tickets ... [and] help find the root cause of tricky bugs." Integrating Claude into Slack isn't exactly new - there's already an existing Slack connector app for Claude, but it's being depreciated in favor of Tag. According to the Claude in Slack help page, the existing connector will leave service on August 3, and Enterprise and Teams customers are getting access to Tag beginning today, per Anthropic's announcement. The persistence and contextual learning that Tag brings are its major changes over the prior Claude-Slack connector, according to Anthropic. Tag is shared across a channel, meaning that everyone who interacts with it in a particular space will interact with the same Claude as their coworkers, "more like interacting collaboratively with a teammate" instead of just getting one-off advice from a bot, according to Anthropic. As mentioned above, Claude Tag will also learn the longer it's in a channel, meaning users won't have to explain things to it every time they chat with it. A Claude Tag based in one channel can also learn from other channels and data sources, provided that it's given permission to do so. Beyond that, Claude Tag can also take initiative to "keep you updated about whatever it thinks you might need to know" across channels and tools it has access to, as long as ambient behavior is toggled on. Anthropic says that it's also able to schedule tasks for itself in order to autonomously pursue its own assignments "over hours or days." Anthropic's announcement said that its employees have found that feature particularly helpful, as instead of doing their own work "we now spend much more of our time delegating tasks to many Claudes in parallel," which is supposed to sound like a good thing. Act now; free credits running out and you'll need 'em Administrators of Slack environments using the old Claude for Slack app have 30 days to opt in to the Tag migration. That said, Anthropic is still keen on keeping those user numbers up, so it's offering a hefty volume of credits to anyone on an Enterprise or Teams plan with more than 10 total seats as long as they migrate before the credits expire on September 1. According to a support page, Enterprise customers who add Tag to Slack will get $25,000 worth of credits, while Teams customers will get $2,500. Those credits are only applicable to Tag usage in Slack, but not for direct messages with Claude, which are billed to individual seats. AI token use has recently become a hot topic, especially since Anthropic did away with bundled usage pricing in favor of metered pricing that has surprised many customers with large bills. It's not clear how far those Tab credits will stretch, and Anthropic didn't respond to questions for this story. It's also worth nothing that using Tag means handing business data over to an AI model that lives on Anthropic's servers, so caveat emptor to anyone adding this agent to channels where sensitive info may be discussed and ingested for contextual learning. Then again, Slack is shunting potentially sensitive business data into the cloud too, and it's not always safe with the Salesforce subsidiary, either. ®

Sorry, Slackbot. Claude is taking your job - Engadget

Anthropic introduces the research preview version of Claude Tag for Slack. If you, or your company, uses Slack for communication and you have a love of its in-house assistant Slackbot, then you might want to look away. Anthropic has announced Claude Tag (@Claude), which is currently in research preview, and could eventually take over Slackbot's job. The company describes it as an always-on Claude with a single identity that everyone in a Slack channel can access. Everyone in a channel can summon it by typing @Claude, can see what their shared assistant is working on and can pick up conversations from where someone else had left off. Like other AI bots, it learns more about the kind of work the people in its channel do over time, so there's lesser and lesser need to explain things to it. The @Claude for the channel of a specific division or team can gather information from elsewhere in the organization, provided it has the permission to do so. If the admin enables "ambient" behavior, @Claude can even proactively update users in a channel about information from other parts of the organization that's relevant to them. It will also be able to follow-up on tasks that haven't gotten an update for a while. While its capabilities might sound risky and like they could lead to information leaks, Anthropic says @Claude's access to sensitive data and task-specific information and tools "can be very tightly scoped." A systems admin will have to specify which tools and information Claude Tag should have access to for each channel. "That means, for instance, that a Claude set up for legal work won't pass on memories to one for engineering, nor provide engineers access to any legal data or tools," Anthropic explained. Claude Tag will initially be available in research preview on Slack for Claude Enterprise and for Claude Team customers, but Anthropic is expected to expand its availability in the future.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels

Anthropic launched Claude Tag, an always-on Slack AI that follows conversations, learns context, and proactively jumps in to flag updates and tasks. Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an "always-on Claude" that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in conversations and assign tasks. It is available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers starting today. Claude Tag is an evolution of Anthropic's existing Slack integrations, which already let users direct-message Claude or tag it in channels for on-demand help. Claude Code in Slack can also route coding tasks from channel mentions to full coding sessions on the web, posting updates back into the thread. But Claude Tag adds a layer of persistent context and memory that the previous tools could not maintain. "As Claude follows along with its channel, it learns ever more about the work," Anthropic said in a statement. Claude can also automatically gather facts from elsewhere in the organisation if granted permission to read other channels. The result is an AI that accumulates institutional knowledge over time rather than starting from scratch with every interaction. Everyone in a given Slack channel can access a single Claude identity, meaning anyone can see what Claude has been working on and pick up the conversation from where the last person left off. System administrators specify which tools, information, and channels each Claude identity can access, and each identity stays scoped to whichever channels the admins define. A Claude set up for legal work cannot seed memories into the engineering channel, for example. When assigned a task, Claude Tag breaks it into stages and works through them using whichever tools it has access to, responding in a Slack thread with what it has created. But the more notable feature is an ambient mode that proactively jumps into conversations to keep teams updated, flag relevant information from across the organisation, and follow up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten. The ambient mode is the feature that separates Claude Tag from a conventional chatbot. Rather than waiting to be asked, Claude monitors the channels it has been assigned to and intervenes when it judges that a team would benefit from a reminder, a summary, or a piece of context pulled from another part of the company. Anthropic says this makes it feel like "working with a real colleague, one that can produce work in public view, with far greater context and understanding than before" Organisational context is increasingly the battleground for enterprise AI. Microsoft has been building Work IQ, an intelligence layer expressed through Copilot that draws on Microsoft Graph to understand roles, collaboration patterns, and organisational structure. Startups like Viktor have raised tens of millions to put AI coworkers directly inside Slack and Teams. Glean, which recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue at a $7 billion valuation, is building a permissions-aware knowledge graph that sits between the model and enterprise data. Claude Tag is Anthropic's answer to the same problem, but its approach is narrower and arguably more disciplined. Rather than building a horizontal intelligence layer across every enterprise application, it plants the AI inside the one surface where most knowledge work already happens: the team chat. The bet is that persistent presence in Slack, combined with cross-channel memory and admin-controlled scoping, is enough to accumulate the institutional context that makes an AI agent useful. The privacy implications are substantial. An always-on AI that follows along with workplace conversations and autonomously decides when to intervene will face scrutiny from both employees and compliance teams. Anthropic's admin-scoping controls are the structural answer to that concern, but the real test will come when enterprise customers deploy it at scale and discover how workers respond to an AI that is always listening. Anthropic says it is working to bring Claude Tag to other platforms in the coming weeks. For now, Slack is the only surface, which limits the feature's reach but also constrains its complexity, a deliberate trade-off for a research preview.

Claude is now in Slack -- and it's ready to do your chores

Claude Tag is available in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. If you use AI tools for work, there's a good chance that you use Claude for various tasks. From Google Workspace to QuickBooks, the AI can connect to various platforms to save you time. Now Anthropic's large language model has a new work home in Slack. In a new blog post, Anthropic announced that it is launching Claude Tag. When Claude Tag is invited to join as a team member, Slack users will be able to use @Claude to delegate tasks to the AI. You'll be able to choose which channels Claude has access to, and it will remember relevant information from those channels to build context. Anthropic also says that Claude can use information across channels if you give it access to more than one channel. It appears that this version of Claude will also have a few unique advantages. One such advantage is that Claude interacts with everyone in that channel. This means anyone in that channel can see what Claude is working on and pick up where someone else left off, as opposed to a single individual chat. Claude on Slack can also be set to ambient, allowing the AI to proactively keep you updated about whatever it thinks you might need to know. For example, it may nudge you to follow up on a thread or task. The company states that the chatbot can schedule tasks for itself and follow through on those tasks over hours or days. Claude Tag is available in beta starting today for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Anthropic says that Claude Tag is replacing the Claude in Slack app. If you were previously using the app, the company says you can opt in to migrate within 30 days.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simply typing @Claude. The product, available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, replaces Anthropic's existing Claude in Slack app and represents the company's most aggressive move yet to colonize the enterprise collaboration layer -- the place where decisions get made, work gets assigned, and institutional knowledge accumulates in real time. For enterprise technology leaders who have spent the past two years evaluating where AI fits into their operational stack, Claude Tag reframes the question entirely. This is not a chatbot, a coding assistant, or a search tool bolted onto a messaging platform. It is an AI agent designed to function as a standing member of a team -- one that builds memory, takes initiative, works asynchronously, and interacts with every person in a channel rather than serving a single user. The implications for enterprise workflow, governance, and vendor strategy are significant. Anthropic says 65% of its own product team's code is now created by its internal version of Claude Tag, and the company runs internal support and data insight channels through the same system. The claim is striking: Anthropic is asserting that the majority of its own product engineering output already flows through the tool it just put in customers' hands. How Claude Tag works inside enterprise Slack channels At its core, Claude Tag works like this: an administrator pairs it with a Slack workspace, grants it access to specific tools and data sources, sets spending limits, and defines which channels it can operate in. From that point on, any team member in those channels can tag @Claude with a request -- write a pull request, pull sales numbers, run a data analysis -- and Claude will break the task into stages, execute them using the tools it has access to, and respond in a Slack thread with the result. The product runs on Claude Opus 4.8, the model Anthropic released less than a month ago. Four capabilities differentiate Claude Tag from its predecessors and from competing integrations. First, it is multiplayer. Within a given Slack channel, there is one Claude that interacts with everyone, not a separate instance per user. Anyone can see what it is working on, and anyone can pick up the conversation where the last person left off. This is a direct contrast to most existing AI integrations in Slack, which tend to operate as single-player tools. Second, it learns over time. As Claude follows along with its channel, it accumulates context about the work happening there. Users do not need to re-explain projects from scratch. If granted permission, Claude can also pull context from other Slack channels and data sources, though Anthropic says it will not report from private channels. Third, it takes initiative. With ambient behavior enabled, Claude will proactively surface relevant information from across the channels it monitors and the tools it is connected to, and will follow up on threads or tasks that have gone quiet without resolution. This is a notable expansion of agency: Claude is not just responding to requests but monitoring the information environment and deciding what its human teammates need to know. Fourth, it works asynchronously, pursuing projects autonomously over hours or days. Anthropic says its own teams "now spend much more of our time delegating tasks to many Claudes in parallel." Enterprise security controls and administrative governance get a central role Anthropic has designed the system with enterprise-grade isolation at its center. System administrators define separate Claude identities for different uses, scoped to specific channels with specific tools and data access. Everything, including Claude's accumulated memories, stays within those boundaries. A Claude configured for sales work will not share memories or data access with one configured for engineering. Administrators can set token-spend limits at both the organizational and channel level, and can review a complete log of every action Claude has taken and which user requested each task. For organizations managing compliance, audit, or regulatory requirements, this logging and scoping architecture is table stakes -- and its absence has been a dealbreaker for many enterprises evaluating AI collaboration tools over the past year. Migration from the existing Claude in Slack app requires an administrator opt-in within 30 days, and Anthropic says it is issuing introductory launch credits to eligible Enterprise and Team organizations. The four-step setup process -- pair with Slack, connect tools, set spend limits, test in a private channel -- is designed to reduce friction for IT teams already managing sprawling SaaS portfolios. The Slack battleground is now the most contested real estate in enterprise AI Claude Tag arrives in the middle of what has become the most fiercely contested territory in enterprise AI: the Slack channel. Slack itself has been aggressively positioning the platform as an "agentic operating system," and the major AI players have responded by racing to plant their flags. Salesforce, which acquired Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021, announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot in March -- the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since the acquisition -- transforming it from a simple conversational assistant into a full-spectrum enterprise agent. OpenAI introduced "Workspace Agents" in April, allowing enterprise subscribers to design agents that take on work tasks across third-party apps including Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft apps, Salesforce, and Notion. Perplexity launched its enterprise "Computer" agent with direct Slack integration, letting employees query @computer directly inside Slack channels. Cognition's Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, has been built around Slack as a primary interface since its early days. Even Microsoft has brought GitHub Copilot into Teams. The logic driving this convergence is straightforward: the average enterprise juggles over 1,000 applications, and employees waste countless hours on context switching, draining productivity by up to 40%. Whichever AI system becomes the default presence in the communication layer where work is coordinated gains an enormous distribution advantage -- and, critically, an enormous data advantage. The AI that lives in the channel where work happens absorbs the institutional context that makes it increasingly difficult to replace. Anthropic built Claude Tag on a foundation two years in the making To understand Claude Tag's strategic significance, it helps to trace the product arc that led to it. Anthropic first integrated Claude with Slack in October 2025, offering two-way connectivity: users could invoke Claude from within Slack or connect Slack as a data source for Claude's chatbot. As TechCrunch reported at the time, the initial integration was focused on individual productivity -- direct messages, AI assistant panels, and thread participation. In January 2026, Anthropic expanded Claude's Slack presence when it launched interactive Claude apps, which TechCrunch's Russell Brandom reported included workplace tools like Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay. In parallel, Anthropic was building out its enterprise infrastructure stack. As TechCrunch reported in August 2025, the company bundled Claude Code into enterprise plans, a move its product lead Scott White called "the most requested feature from our business team and enterprise customers." In April 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted AI agents at scale, with early adopters including Notion, Rakuten, Asana, and Sentry. As The New Claw Times reported, the move positioned Anthropic "as a direct competitor to AWS Bedrock Agents and Google Vertex Agent Builder." Then came Claude Opus 4.8 in late May, which Anthropic described as "a more effective collaborator" with "sharper judgement, more honesty about its progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors." As 9to5Mac reported, benchmark improvements included a jump in agentic coding scores from 64.3% to 69.2% and a knowledge work score increase from 1753 to 1890. Claude Tag is the synthesis of all of these threads -- combining the Slack channel presence, the enterprise security architecture, the Managed Agents infrastructure, and the Opus 4.8 model's improved agentic capabilities into a single product that Anthropic frames as "the beginning of an evolution of Claude Code." Anthropic's explosive growth explains why it is betting big on the collaboration layer The financial stakes behind this launch are enormous. Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding in late May at a $965 billion post-money valuation, and its run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. Claude Code's run-rate revenue alone has grown to over $2.5 billion, more than doubling since the beginning of 2026, and enterprise use has grown to represent over half of all Claude Code revenue. Those numbers explain why Anthropic is investing so heavily in channel-level presence. Every enterprise customer who grants Claude persistent access to a Slack channel -- with connected tools, accumulated context, and ambient monitoring enabled -- represents a dramatically deeper integration than a chatbot conversation or an API call. The usage patterns become stickier, the token consumption grows, and the switching costs rise. Deloitte's deployment of Claude across more than 470,000 employees in 150 countries -- reportedly its largest-ever enterprise AI deployment -- illustrates the scale at which these dynamics play out. The broader market trajectory reinforces the bet. Fortune Business Insights projects the global agentic AI market will grow from $9.14 billion in 2026 to $139 billion by 2034, and Gartner forecasts that 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. Anthropic is not alone in seeing this future, but with Claude Tag it is making one of the most direct plays yet to own the enterprise agent layer. The risks enterprise buyers need to weigh before granting Claude a permanent seat at the table Claude Tag raises several questions that enterprise buyers will need to evaluate carefully. The first is vendor dependency. As The New Stack noted when analyzing Claude Managed Agents earlier this year, once an organization's agents, operational configurations, and monitoring run on Anthropic's managed infrastructure, switching costs increase significantly. Claude Tag deepens this dynamic: a Claude that has accumulated months of channel context and institutional memory becomes very difficult to replace. Enterprise procurement teams accustomed to negotiating multi-cloud flexibility will need to think hard about what it means to give a single vendor's AI persistent access to the communication layer where institutional knowledge lives. The second is governance around ambient monitoring. The proactive behavior mode -- in which Claude monitors channels and surfaces information it decides is relevant -- represents a meaningful expansion of what enterprise AI systems do. Organizations will need to develop clear frameworks for an AI agent that is not just responding to requests but actively surveilling information flows and making editorial judgments about what humans need to know. For regulated industries, this raises questions that existing AI governance policies may not yet address. The third is pricing. Anthropic has not published detailed pricing for Claude Tag beyond noting that it runs on token-based spending with administrative controls. For an agent that monitors channels continuously, builds memory, and works asynchronously over hours or days, the token consumption profile could look very different from traditional AI usage. And the fourth is reliability: Anthropic has been candid in recent months about infrastructure strain caused by surging demand, and for a product positioned as an always-on team member, downtime carries a different kind of cost than it does for a tool invoked on demand. What Claude Tag signals about the future of enterprise work Anthropic says its goal is to expand Claude Tag beyond Slack "so that teams can tag @Claude in the many other places they work." The company is clearly eyeing the full collaboration surface -- Microsoft Teams, email, project management tools, and beyond. If Claude Tag succeeds, it will validate a model of enterprise AI that looks less like a tool and more like a new category of worker: one that never sleeps, never forgets what was discussed in the channel last Tuesday, and never needs to be onboarded twice. But the deeper significance of this launch may be what it reveals about the competitive dynamics reshaping enterprise software. For decades, the most valuable real estate in business technology was the system of record -- the database, the CRM, the ERP. The current AI arms race suggests that the next era of enterprise value will be captured not by the system that stores the data, but by the agent that sits in the room where the work happens and understands what to do with it. Anthropic just gave that agent a name, a permanent seat in the channel, and permission to speak up when it thinks it has something to say. The question for every enterprise technology leader is no longer whether that agent will arrive. It is whether they are ready to manage it when it does.

Claude can now join your Slack channels and work alongside your team

For years, AI assistants have been siloed. You open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot, type a prompt, get an answer, and move on. Anthropic's new Claude Tag feature takes a different approach. Instead of making employees jump into a separate AI chat every time they need help, it brings Claude directly to where many teams already spend their day: Slack. Add Claude to a channel, grant it access to needed tools, and tag @Claude for help -- whether analyzing data, writing reports, reviewing code, or investigating incidents. But Claude Tag isn't just another chatbot integration. Its key differentiator is that Anthropic positions it as a digital coworker for your team, enabling seamless collaboration where multiple users can jointly interact with the same AI within their work environment. One AI to rule the channel (and hopefully the chaos) What makes Claude Tag interesting isn't that it can answer questions; it's that it can ask them. Plenty of AI tools already do that. The bigger shift is Claude's ability to serve as a shared, persistent participant within a Slack channel. Unlike other AI tools, Claude enables all team members to interact with a single instance, fostering collective visibility and continuity. That means teammates can see what Claude is working on, continue tasks started by others, and build on previous conversations without constantly repeating context. Anthropic says Claude gradually learns the channel's workflow and relevant projects if granted access to the right tools and data. That could mean spending more time simply asking Claude to do something. How to set up Claude in Slack If your organization has a Claude Enterprise or Claude Team subscription, getting started is relatively straightforward. Step 1: Connect Claude Tag to your Slack workspace Administrators first need to pair Claude Tag with the company's Slack environment. Once connected, Claude can be added to specific channels where teams want AI assistance. Step 2: Decide what Claude can access This is arguably the most important step. Administrators choose which tools, datasets, and systems Claude can use. For example, a sales-focused Claude might gain access to CRM data and reporting tools, while an engineering-focused Claude could connect to repositories and development platforms. Anthropic says access can be tightly restricted to keep information isolated between teams. Step 3: Set spending limits Organizations can establish monthly usage budgets and channel-specific limits to keep costs under control. This gives teams room to experiment without worrying about unexpected AI bills showing up at the end of the month. Step 4: Test Claude in a private channel Before rolling it out company-wide, Anthropic recommends testing Claude in a private Slack channel. This allows administrators to verify permissions, tool access, and workflow behavior before broader deployment. Step 5: Start assigning work Once everything is configured, employees can simply tag @Claude and describe what they need. Claude then breaks the task into smaller steps, uses available tools where necessary, and eventually posts their results back into the Slack thread. The most interesting feature might be what Claude does when nobody is talking to it Most AI assistants are reactive; they wait for instructions. Claude Tag can be configured to be more proactive. With its optional "ambient" behavior enabled, Claude can monitor the channels and tools it has access to, surface potentially useful updates, flag unresolved issues, and follow up on tasks that appear to have stalled. That's a notable shift from the typical chatbot experience today. Instead of acting like a search engine that waits for prompts, Claude starts behaving more like a team member, keeping an eye on ongoing work. Whether that sounds helpful or mildly terrifying probably depends on how many Slack notifications you already receive. Recommended Videos Still, the broader trend is difficult to ignore. While many AI tools focus on chat interfaces, Claude Tag differentiates itself by embedding AI into collaborative workplace tools and acting as a delegate that works within the team's workflow. And if that vision takes hold, workplace AI could soon mean more real collaboration -- where @Claude becomes your team's reliable problem-solver, not just another app to type into.

Anthropic releases Claude Tag, a virtual employee that works within slack | Fortune

Anthropic has released a version of its popular chatbot Claude that operates like a virtual employee. Claude Tag, the new product, works across organizations within Slack to complete various tasks for teams. The product is similar to Anthropic's popular agentic offerings Claude Code and Cowork. After an employee directs Claude Tag to complete a task, the bot will break that down into stages and work through them independently -- delivering the final result to a team via Slack. Anthropic says Claude Tag has been designed with enterprises in mind and has features that let all members of a company access a single Claude "identity," meaning all employees can collaborate with the same tool and hand off half-finished tasks to one another. "We see Claude Tag as an evolution of Claude Code," Cat Wu, Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, told Fortune. "Claude Code, CoWork, and chat are very single player, whereas Claude Tag is built to be interactive and multiplayer. When Claude Tag works in a channel, everyone can see it, and everyone can jump in, engage, and steer it in the right direction." The tool also learns from the company it's embedded in over time. Anthropic says the bot can get up to speed on company information across channels without every user having to explain the context of each task. Within Anthropic, Claude Tag is already approving and incorporating 65% of the code changes the product team submits, according to Wu. The release is part of a larger push into the enterprise market from Anthropic. As the company heads toward a likely IPO this year, the lab has been keen to court enterprise customers, who represent a more predictable and sustainable revenue base than direct consumer use. Anthropic has been making recent gains in the market despite fierce competition from fellow AI labs like OpenAI and Big Tech companies such as Google. According to Ramp's May AI Index, which draws on corporate spending data across more than 50,000 U.S. companies, Anthropic had pulled ahead of OpenAI in business adoption for the first time, with 34.4% of firms paying for its services against OpenAI's 32.3%. Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, was the primary driver of that shift. The enterprise adoption gap Some enterprises have been struggling to integrate AI into workflows across sprawling organizations. Among the reasons cited for the adoption lag are a lack of employee training, a struggle to consolidate company data often spread across siloed teams, and safety concerns about access to and leaking of sensitive company data. With Claude Tag, Anthropic will be hoping to ease some of these burdens by simplifying the product and embedding it where companies already operate day-to-day. In response to the safety concerns, Anthropic says Claude Tag's access to sensitive data and task-specific tools can be "very tightly scoped." System administrators can specify which tools, information, and memories Claude should have access to and in which channels. This prevents Claude accessing the wrong tools and the wrong memories across teams. For example, a Claude used by the HR team won't pass on information to the engineering team and vice versa. "If you're handling very sensitive data, such as personnel data, you can also DM Claude Tag...so you can be confident that sensitive information doesn't leak," Wu added. Administrators can also set limits for token spend, both for individual channels and the organization -- likely an attempt to ease some of the simmering concerns about the cost of AI tools. Claude Tag also has an "ambient" behavior feature that allows the bot to proactively keep employees updated with information across the organization and follow up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten. The product will initially be released as a research preview on Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team users, with further plans to expand access. With the new release, Anthropic is taking on both startups and Big Tech companies that have already released tools that work like virtual employees. The offering will more directly challenge things like Salesforce's Slackbot and AI start-ups like Viktor.

This New AI Slack Feature Will Change How You Interact With Claude

The new feature is called Claude Tag. Companies that subscribe to both Slack and Anthropic's Claude Enterprise or Claude Team plans will be able to bring Claude into threads and groupchats by simply writing @Claude and then describing what they want the AI to accomplish. Each Slack channel has its own unique instance of Claude that can maintain context across conversations. If you had a Slack channel specifically for social media marketing, for example, you could train that channel's Claude to understand the workflow necessary to pitching, creating, and scheduling a new social media post. If given permission, Claude can even view content in other channels to ensure it doesn't miss anything. And these Claudes aren't just relegated to Slack; they can access any digital tools that the company's administrators give it access to, similar to Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Cowork products. Admins will be able to set highly-specific limits about what data different Claudes can access; for example, "a Claude set up for legal work won't pass on memories to one for engineering," the company says, "nor provide engineers access to any legal data or tools."

Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, As AI Takes On Tasks Across Slack Channels

Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag, a Slack-based feature that lets teams assign work to Claude inside shared channels while keeping projects moving in the background. The tool is rolling out in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, positioning it as a more collaborative way to use Claude across groups. Anthropic explained that Claude Tag can be added to specific Slack channels, wired into approved tools and data sources, and then tagged @Claude to take on tasks. The model can keep track of relevant channel context and return results in a thread after it finishes. Claude Tag is designed to operate like a shared teammate inside a channel, so anyone can see what it is doing and continue a request where someone else left off. The new model also has an optional "ambient" mode that lets Claude surface updates proactively, flagging relevant information from across channels it's in and the tools it's connected to. On controls, Anthropic said administrators decide which channels Claude can access, what tools it can use, and what information it can see, with separate setups meant to prevent cross-team memory sharing. The company said admins can also set usage limits and review an activity log that shows what @Claude did and who initiated each request. Claude Tag has become part of Anthropic's core workflow, 65% of its product team's code is produced by an internal version of the system, according to Anthropic. Teams use it beyond engineering for items such as pulling product numbers, working through support queues, and debugging. Anthropic said Claude Tag replaces the prior Claude in Slack app, with an opt-in migration window of 30 days for administrators. The company added that eligible Enterprise and Team organizations will receive a launch credit, and that the feature runs on Opus 4.8. The company plans to expand Claude Tag to become more widely available, so that teams can eventually tag Claude in other places they work. Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that it reran its "Project Fetch" robotics test and found its newer Claude models could outperform the previous generation. Anthropic said Opus 4.7, running without human help, finished the subset of tested objectives at speeds it described as roughly 20 times faster than the quickest human team on tasks participants had completed less than a year earlier. The company also said that for any step, at least one human team completed in phase one, Opus 4.7 finished that same step at least 10 times faster. Photo Courtesy: Koshiro K on Shutterstock.com This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs To add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.